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Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Ministry of Healing Conferences
This week and next will be a busy time for the Church?s Ministry of Healing which will have events in Armagh, Dublin and Raphoe. Today (Saturday) there will be a Diocesan Conference in the Synod Hall, Armagh, open to all clergy and people of the diocese. The conference will be attended by the Archbishop of Armagh who, on Thursday, will be in Belfast to deliver the annual Ulster Hospital Lecture.
On Wednesday in the Ashgate Hotel, Dublin, there will be a conference for clergy, members of Diocesan Healing Committees and those involved in pastoral care. Entitled ?Conversations of Healing?, the conference, which has been facilitated by the Revd Sue Watterson, Director of the Church?s Ministry of Healing, emerged from the recent Dublin & Glendalough Synod where issues surrounding suicide awareness were discussed at some length. The guest speakers will be the Revd Dr Russ Parker, Director of Acorn Christian Healing Foundation in England and Marie Campion, Director and founder of the Marino Therapy Centre in Dublin.
Dr Parker will also be the preacher at the Derry & Raphoe Church?s Ministry of Healing event on Friday. This will take the form of a Healing Service and Thanksgiving for the Church?s Ministry of Healing which will be held in St Eunan?s Cathedral, Raphoe.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Service of the Word from St Catherine & St James Church, Donore Avenue, Dublin, where the vicar is Dr John Crawford. The Rector of Whitechurch, Canon Horace McKinley, will preach at this service which will mark the re-opening of the church after extensive renovation. The Archbishop of Dublin will conduct a Service of Rededication at a later date.
In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles, while at Evensong in St Patrick?s Cathedral the Annual Huguenot Commemoration will be held. The Archbishop of Dublin will be the preacher at the annual Dublin Citizenship Service which will be held for the first time in St Mary?s Pro-Cathedral, beginning at 3.pm
In Limerick Cathedral, tomorrow (Sunday) morning there will be a United Service of the Royal British Legion and the O.N.E. at which the Dean of Limerick, the Very Revd Maurice Sirr will preach while in the afternoon in Belfast Cathedral the preacher at the Royal Irish Regiment?s annual Service of Remembrance will be the Chaplain General to UK Land Forces, the Revd David Wilkes.
On Thursday evening the Revd Terry Scott, Rector of Magherafelt, will be installed as Prebendary of Tynan in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Armagh., while in St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, on Friday evening the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will give a Remembrancetide concert, ?Lux Aeterna? in aid of the St Canice?s Organ Restoration Appeal.
On Saturday 11 November the Church of Ireland Historical Society will meet in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 10.30. Dr Toby Barnard, from Hertford College, Oxford, will speak about the book, The Clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000. Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards which he edited with Canon W.G. Neely, the Convenor and Secretary of the Church of Ireland Historical Society. This important book of essays was published earlier this year by Four Courts Press and will be available at the meeting at a special price. Among the contributors are the Bishop of Meath and Kildare (Dr Richard Clarke), the Principal of the Church of Ireland Theological College (Professor Adrian Empey), and the Church of Ireland Historiographer (Dr Kenneth Milne).