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September '98 Around and about Dublin'sChrist Church Cathedral |
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The long-planned connection with our nearest Welsh neighbour – the diocese of Bangor – is to have its foundations laid in the theological college and its formal link cemented in the cathedral at Evensong on Wednesday 9 September at 6 p.m. The girls’ choir will sing Evensong, and a light supper, arranged by the Revd Tom Gordon, will be served in the crypt. It is expected that some seventy members of the Bangor diocese with their bishop, Dr Barry Morgan, will be present. After supper they have a free evening in Dublin.
We are also glad to report progress on the cathedral linking with San Jose, California, which is twinned as a city with Dublin. Mr Ian Delinger, a member of the select vestry, was a youth delegate and usher at Lambeth where he met Archbishop Empey. He visited the cathedral for the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 16 August. Since last month’s description of San Jose as the major fruit-growing area of California, readers will be interested to know that a current gazetteer (not the 1974 one used last month) tells us that there’s no longer any fruit growing – now it’s Silicon Valley, the HQ of the world’s computer industry!
Irene Drew’s team of volunteers at the welcome desk does trojan work – but we do need more if we are to survive the winter and keep the cathedral open daily. Irene, together with Fred Gray, Ann Gray, Sheila Gough, Eleanor Jenkins, Mary Judge, Eileen Kennedy, Dermot McNamara, Derek Maybury, Hector Mewis, Evelyn Patton, Douglas Poynton, Noel Poynton, Eileen Slator, Norman Tucker, Hazel Tyrrell, Norman Tyrrell, Ronald Wallace, Dick White, Brian Wilkinson, and Jo Wilkinson very largely encourage visitors to pay for the largest part of our annual running costs. If you would be willing to join them in welcoming more than 210,000 visitors a year to the cathedral, please telephone Irene at 493 1478 or at the cathedral on 677 8099 where a message can be left for her.
The annual tea party, organised by the Friends committee and given by the Board, will this year be held on Tuesday 29 September at 4 p.m. The venue will again, by kind invitation of Miss Stella Mew, be Rathdown School.
The Revd Linda Peilow, curate-assistant of Castleknock union, will be ordained on Sunday 13 September at 3.30 p.m. The preacher will be the bishop of Porvoo, Finland, who was greatly involved in the declaration of commitment to unity named after his see city, a document between the Anglican and Lutheran churches of Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. Please support her on this important day in her life.
The Guinness Organ scholarship was instituted some five years ago. Since then there have been three scholars from Ireland and three from England. This year we move to the new world. Stephen Candow hails from St John’s in Newfoundland, Canada. Aged 23, he is a graduate of the Memorial University of Newfoundland where he held the Dame Vera Lynn scholarship. He is also a former organ scholar of St John’s Cathedral, St John’s, Newfoundland. He comes to us with considerable accompaniment and playing skills and we look forward to his having a happy year with us. Please make him welcome when he takes up residence in Castle Street.
Nobody alive today remembers the long quire removed by George Edmund Street during the 1870s restoration. Many, however, know its carved stones from visits to the crypt. As part of the great planned restoration of the crypt this stone during September will be cleaned, sorted and catalogued, organised by Stuart Kinsella and the Archives and Information Committee. Rachel Moss, a postgraduate student in the History of Art, is the project supervisor; Professor Roger Stalley will be consultant; Lesley Rue, Sue Hemmens and Marie Betts will offer other services. The stone will be moved onto shelving in the south aisle of the crypt. We hope the work will be of great interest to visitors and details of the work will be available on the cathedral’s website. The Heritage Council have made a grant of £6,000.
The Vikings and Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin will be the title of yet another series of lectures on the history of the cathedral on the Tuesdays of October. Full details will appear in the October Review notes. Please note that the previous lecture series on the Augustinians and Christ Church will soon appear in published form.
The cathedral choir will lead the annual diocesan service on Thursday 17 September at 8 p.m. when the preacher will be the archdeacon of Glendalough.
It is fifty years since the Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Foundation was formed. To mark the event the trustees of the foundation, together with its many supporters, and, we hope, the general public, will attend a Thanksgiving and Evensong at 5 p.m. on Saturday 19 September.
The service for the opening of the primary school year will be held on Friday 25 September at 7.30 p.m. Come early as the cathedral is always packed for this service.
The last weekend in September each year is used by the choir as a time of preparation for and introduction to the year’s music events. This year they will be in Galway where they will sing in Saint Nicholas’s church on the Sunday morning. There will be no Saturday Evensong on 26 September.
Ite O’Donovan will bring her Lassus Scholars to sing the Sunday Eucharist and Evensong while the cathedral choir is in Galway.
The Revd Bruce Pierce, presently rector of Lucan and Leixlip, is to be commissioned as first fulltime chaplain to the new Adelaide and Meath hospital (incorporating the National Children’s’ Hospital). The service will take place at 3.30 p.m. Evensong on Sunday 26 September
A recent telephone call assures us that Sylvia Pritchard is none the worse for her fall in the cathedral on 19 July. Indeed a merry exchange of letters (references to Becket of Canterbury and Ophelia in the initial letter) became limericks and poems. What could easily have been a nasty experience produced great amusement from both writers.
| Sent from Christ Church | Received from Budleigh Salterson |
| The Director of choirs,
Budleigh Salterton Was knocked out by the steps the High Altar's on But her Choir kept their nerve Singing Pritchard with verve And there wasn't a note that they faltered on | Many thanks for your letter, I now feel much
better And able to cope with the choir. You compare me with Becket, when he hit the dock, it Was incontrovertibly dire A dried out Ophelia I add is not really a Role which I wish to make mine. When the chips are all down and without gore on my gown, To come back to you all will be fine |
A return visit would certainly be welcomed by Christ Church!
The precentor, Canon Bartlett, has kindly accepted an invitation from Canon Cecil Mills, rector of Holy Trinity Killiney to preach there on Sunday 27 September. This will be the Killiney parish harvest. He will also describe to the parishoners the scale and ideas behind Christ Church 2000, our five year restoration plan and reconstruction plan.
Yet another visit from the Heidleberg players. Their popularity increases year by year so that their concerts are a complete sell-out. This year they will be with us at 8 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday, 18 and 19 September.
A "Parley of Instruments" will also converse together in the cathedral on Saturday 3 October at 8 p.m. The standard of these concerts is high - and so is the attendance of those who know good music. Don't be late.
Such events are rare in the cathedral - rarely more than two or three a year. On Saturday 5 September Miss Camilla Acheson will be joined in marriage with Sir David Finlay, Bt. at 3.30 p.m.
The plain people of Dublin came to Christ Church to say their prayers for the stricken people of Omagh on Saturday 22 August - 60 to the 12.45 p.m. Eucharist and 600 to the 3 p.m. Act of Commemoration at which the names of the dead were read out and at which the archbishop gave the blessing. The choir of Saint Mark's church, Winshill, Burton-on-Trent sang for this service and again at 5 p.m. Evensong.
This group will recommence its meetings on Monday 14 September 1998 with a talk led by the precentor, John Bartlett, who will discuss Interpretations of the Bible. It will begin at 8pm in the chapter room.
Material for the October Church Review must reach the dean by 12th September
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