A festival week begins on Friday at St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh. There will be special services, music recitals, an exhibition and floral display depicting the history of the cathedral from medieval to modern times, and a young people's art competition.
The festival will open with Choral Evensong on Friday when the preacher will be the Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, the Very Rev John Paterson.
Following Evensong the Archbishop of Armagh will launch Armagh Clergy 1800-2000, which has been edited by Canon Ted Fleming, the provincial and diocesan registrar.
This is an update and partial revision of the work of the late Canon J.B. Leslie, whose biographical succession list of the Armagh clergy was the first of many such publications. Armagh Clergy will be on sale for £30.
There will be a service for uniformed organisations the following Sunday, and on Tuesday the Archbishop will preach at a diocesan service of holy communion.
The Armagh Church Choir Union will introduce the new Church Hymnal on Wednesday at a service entitled Sing and Rejoice . On Friday the Diocesan Youth Council will host a celebration of All-Age Worship.
There will be school music recitals on Saturday, a recital by the cathedral organist on Sunday and a concert by the Armagh City Choir on Thursday.
Festival details may be obtained from the Dean of Armagh, The Library, Abbey Street, Armagh BT61 7DY.
Today the Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Music Committee will hold a choral day for junior choristers in Christ Church Cathedral.
Tomorrow RTE will broadcast Morning Prayer from St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, where the Dean is the Very Rev William Beare. The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will dedicate gifts in St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leiglin, while the Bishop of Tuam will be in Belfast for the centenary celebrations of St Nicholas's parish church on the Lisburn Road.
In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher at the Eucharist will be Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness who will address the theme of justice.
In the afternoon, in St Ann's Church, Dublin, the Bach Festival 2001 continues with Cantatas 41, 58, 153 and 190 performed by the Fishamble Voices, the Orchestra of St Cecilia and soloists.
National Marriage Week begins tomorrow and guidelines for prayer are available from the Church of Ireland Marriage Council.
On Wednesday the Chapel Choir of Trinity College, Dublin, will perform Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle in the College Chapel, at 8 p.m.
On Thursday evening in the college's Ussher Theatre the sixth in the current lecture series East Meets West: Civilisations in Dialogue will be delivered. Dr Loveday Alexander from the University of Sheffield will speak on "Foolishness to the Greeks: Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire".
In St Macartan's Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen, on Friday the Diocese of Clogher will launch the final phase of its Kenya 2000/2001 project in association with the Church Missionary Society Ireland. This will be a response to Bishop Taama's appeal for help in meeting the challenges of drought in the diocese of Kajiado.
The Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin have authorised an emergency grant of £20,000 from the Church of Ireland Bishops' Appeal Fund to assist the relief work in the Indian state of Gujarat following the massive destruction caused by the earthquake.