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Reconciliation Book Launch in Belfast
On Thursday at noon in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, the Bishop of Down and Dromore, the Rt Revd Harold Miller, will launch A Time to Heal. Community Bridge Building in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Down and Dromore. The booklet has been published by the Think Again programme of the dioceses and has been supported by the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.
This publication has important things to say about the roll of the church and church people in promoting healing in a broken society and about the need to move towards communities which are less marked by sectarian division. It outlines the spiritual vision behind work in the Dioceses of Down and Dromore towards promoting a more reconciled society. The publication includes examples of what is already being done in the dioceses to build bridges in the community and contains practical advice on the planning of future projects, with brief descriptions of courses, books, contacts and other resources.
The authors of the booklet have both recently completed masters courses in reconciliation studies in the Irish School of Ecumenics. Margaret McNulty is the chairperson of the diocesan Reconciliation Operational Group and the Revd Charlie Leeke is the diocesan Reconciliation Development Officer.
Copies of A Time to Heal may be obtained from the Good Bookshop, Church of Ireland House, 61-7 Donegal Street, Belfast BT1 2QH or by post from Ruth Patterson, 135 Ballymorran Road, Killinchy, Newtownards BT23 6TT (enclose Stg£1 for postage & packing).
Today (Saturday) the Kilkenny Archaeological Society will hoist a seminar on ‘Celebrating 800 Years of St Canice’s Cathedral’ which will be divided between the cathedral and Rothe House. Maureen Hegarty will speak on Bishop David Rothe, Professor Roger Stalley from TCD will talk about the architecture of St Canice’s, John Bradley from NUI-Maynooth will give a tour of the cathedral, and the seminar will conclude with a talk by the Dean of Ossory, the Very Revd Norman Lynas, on ‘The Work of a 19th Century Dean’. The celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the building of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim, will conclude with Festival Evensong tomorrow (Sunday) at which the preacher will be the Archbishop of Dublin.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Dean of Cork, the Very Revd Michael Burrows, will preach at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, while in St Patrick’s Cathedral the services will be sung by the Windmill Singers from South Warwickshire. In St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, at 8.00 pm Karen Marsden Orr, one of Northern Ireland’s best known gospel singers, will lead an evening of worship and healing praise which has been organized by Brother David Jardine of the Divine Healing Ministries.
On Tuesday the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will take part in the autumn conference of the Glencree Churches Programme on 'Working for Tolerance – A New Dialogue Between Churches and Civil Society’. The Armagh Diocesan Synod will be held in Church House, Armagh, and on Wednesday the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Synod will take place in the Royal School, Raphoe.
The Archbishop of Armagh will be in London on Wednesday where he will address the Anglican Compass Rose Society, an international organization which provides financial support for many aspects of the Anglican Communion.
On Thursday evening in St Peter’s Church, Londonderry, the Church’s Ministry of Healing in the Dioceses of Derry and Raphoe will hold a Healing Service & Thanksgiving for the Church’s Ministry of Healing. The preacher will be the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Revd Ken Good.