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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Laurencetide Celebrations
As part of the Dublin and Glendalough 800 anniversary celebrations Christ Church cathedral will host a week of celebrations, beginning tomorrow (Sunday), inspired by the Feast of St Laurence O’Toole, Abbot of Glendalough and Archbishop of Dublin, who played such an important part in the building of Christ Church.
Music at all the services during this week will have a distinct Laurencetide flavour, starting with Ecumenical Evensong at 3.30pm on the eve of the feast, tomorrow (Sunday), which will be sung by the choirs of Christ Church and The Palestrina Choir. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will preach. On Tuesday a Consort of the Lay Vicars Choral and Choral Scholars will sing Compline at 6pm and there will be Choral Evensong at 6pm on Wednesday with the Girls’ Choir and on Thursday with the Cathedral Choir
On Monday a St Laurence O’Toole exhibition will be opened in the cathedral’s Musician’s Corner and will run all week and there will be the launch of a free D&G800 ‘Monks’ Tour’ of the cathedral and special workshops for all diocesan schools – these will run on a rolling schedule over the next few months and all diocesan schools will receive an invitation to join in.
There will also be a series of lunchtime history lectures at 1.30pm by Professor Sean Duffy (Monday), Dr Michael O’Neill (Wednesday), Dr Rachael Moss (Thursday) and the Revd Dr Adrian Empey (Friday).
The festival will conclude on Sunday 20 November with Diocesan Evensong, featuring the choirs of the parish churches of the Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough, at which Archbishop Michael Jackson will officiate.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning a Service of Remembrance will be broadcast from the RTE studios with the Rev. Daniel Owen (Chaplain) and St Columba’s College Choir. At 1.30pm the Bishop of Cork, at the invitation of the British Legion, will give the Remembrance Sunday oration at the war memorial on South Mall while in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, the preacher at the Remembrance Sunday Evensong at 3.30pm will be the former Dean of Belfast, the Very Revd Dr Houston McKelvey.
Next week the Archbishop of Dublin will be in Amman, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East, the Most Revd Suheil Dawani, where he will attend an ordination of priests and give an address at the Diocesan Synod.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Cork will give the address at the meeting of the Munster Retired Clergy in Kingstown College, Mitchelstown. As part of a programme to raise €300,000 for the restoration and preservation of St. Doulagh’s medieval church in Balgriffin, there will be a concert in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, on Tuesday evening at 7.30pm featuring he Band of An Garda Siochana and also the Ladies Choir of An Garda Siochana. Tickets are available at the door or by phone to 087–6711547 or from www.christchurch.com/events/on–the–beat–a–night–of–music–song–by–the–garda–siochana–band–ladies–choir
A new book by the Church of Ireland Press Officer, Dr Paul Harron, will be launched in Belfast on Thursday evening. Young & Mackenzie: a transformational provincial practice, 1850–1960 examines the architectural practice which was responsible for some of Belfast’s iconic buildings such as the department stores of Anderson & MacAuley and Robinson & Cleaver. The book has been published by the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.
On Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will attend the Indian Orthodox Advent Service at which the Indian Orthodox Bishop of India will be presiding.
The AGM of Changing Attitude Ireland will be held in St George’s church, Belfast, on Saturday 19 November, at 2.15pm.
Published in the Friday edition of The Irish Times