This year the Church's Ministry of Healing Annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day will be held in St George & St Thomas' Church, Cathal Brugha Street, (off O'Connell Street) on Wednesday 9 July 2003 at 2.45 pm
The Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, tonight welcomed the outcome of today’s Drumcree Service and paid tribute to the organization and response of Portadown Orangemen to his appeal for calm and dignity.
"On Sunday 6th July the members of Portadown L.O.L. No 1. will attend Morning Prayer at Drumcree Parish Church on the invitation of the Rector and Select Vestry. Public worship of Almighty God is a privilege which must be treated with the utmost respect.
The Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd John Neill, will ordain four deacons in Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday 22 June at 3.30 pm. They are Aisling Shine, Joyce Rankin, John Tanner and Tim Irvine.
On Sunday 29 June, 2003, at 3.30 pm in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Revd Sandra Hales, curate of Lucan & Leixlip, and the Revd Robert Marshall, Auxiliary Minister of Stillorgan & Blackrock, will be ordained priests.
President Mary McAleese will visit the Molyneux Home, Leeson Park, on Thursday 26 June. During her visit the President will meet the residents, staff and members of the Board.
Sometimes you find yourself reading a passage of scripture from one of the less well-known books of the Bible, and the words literally leap off the page as being exactly right for our day and our situation. This happened to me just a few days ago, when the reading set for Evening Prayer was a short passage from the prophet Habakkuk (whose name we find it hard to spell, and whose book we can’t easily find). The words which struck me were these, spoken by the Lord to the prophet:
The National University of Ireland, Galway, will confer an honorary doctorate in laws on the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd John Neill, on Friday 27 June 2003 in University College, Galway.