Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times
Huguenot Society President to Preach in Dublin
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, the annual Huguenot Commemoration Service will be held. This year the address will be given by the President of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Revd Denis Desert. Mr Desert, who was ordained in the Church of England in 1956, served in a number of parishes in the Diocese of St Albans before retiring in 1996. He has been President of the Huguenot Society since 2001 and this will be the first opportunity for many members of the Irish Section to meet him.
The annual Huguenot service in St Patrick’s Cathedral is now a well established part of Dublin ecclesiastical and cultural life. As well as attracting members of the Huguenot Society, the service has frequently been graced by the French ambassador and members of staff from the embassy, and has also been a magnet for the ecclesiastical history community. Those who have given the address at past services include Professor Eric Caldicott from UCD, Professor Ruth Whelan from Maynooth, the Revd Professor Adrian Empey, Principal of the Church of Ireland Theological College, and Dr Jean Paul Pittion, formerly of Trinity College, Dublin, and now teaching in the University of Tour.
The service is a collaboration between St Patrick’s Cathedral and the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society, the establishment of which was the topic of an address by Dr Muriel McCarthy at the 1987 service. The Irish Section provides a focus for those who are interested in Huguenot activity in Ireland and details of its programme may be had from the Honorary Secretary, Mrs Annette Camier, Sunhaven, Dublin Road, Celbridge, Co. Kildare. In 1993 the Irish Section entered into an agreement with the Representative Church Body Library to build up, in the Library, a collection of printed and manuscript material relating to the Huguenots in Ireland. The Irish Huguenot Archive, since then, has been gradually building its collections and those who are interested in donating material should contact the Honorary Curator, Dr Raymond Refausse at the RCB Library, Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14.
Today (Saturday) the Monkstown Missionary Union will hold its annual sale in aid of world needs in the Knox Hall, beginning at 10.30 am.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the preacher at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, will be the Revd Dr W.G. Neely, Rector of Keady and Convenor of the Church of Ireland Historical Society. At 8.30 pm on BBC Radio 2 the Sunday Half Hour programme will feature hymns which were recorded during the Ceiliuradh liturgical conference in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in June.
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin. On Wednesday the House of Bishops will meet.
The third in the current lunchtime lecture series on archbishops of Dublin will be given in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Tuesday. The speaker will be Dr Philip O’Regan, from the University of Limerick, and his subject will be Archbishop William King.
On Thursday the Archbishop of Armagh will preside at a meeting of Armagh clergy at which the Book of Common Prayer (2004) will be introduced by Canon Richard Rountree.
In St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, on Friday at 5.30 pm there will be a Memorial Service for the late Canon Cecil Bradley, Dean’s Vicar in the cathedral for over 27 years. The preacher will be a former Dean of St Patrick’s, Dr Victor Griffin.