September has in recent years become an increasingly busy month in the Church of Ireland as the resumption of schools and colleges and diocesan and parish organisations coincides with new initiatives in music, exhibitions and other forms of outreach.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the life of the two Dublin cathedrals.
In Christ Church today the Ulster Youth Choir will hold a concert as part of its millennium tour, while in St Patrick's the assistant organist, Mr David Leigh, will hold voice trials for the newly-formed Cathedral Girls' Choir.
Indeed, such is the increase of activity in St Patrick's that Mr Louis Parminter has been appointed as a full-time verger, the first such appointment for many years.
Tomorrow at Evensong in Christ Church there will be a special service for the Irish Heart Transplant Association which will mark the 15th anniversary of the first such operation in the Mater Hospital.
Many people who have carried out operations and who have benefited from them will attend.
An anniversary of a different kind will be marked in St Patrick's where, at Evensong, the dean, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will preach at the annual Commemoration of the Battle of Britain. Later tomorrow evening, at 8.30 p.m., the popular BBC Radio 2 programme Sunday Half Hour will be a broadcast recording of the hymns sung at the Hymn Society Service in Christ Church in July.
A somewhat more exotic event will take place in Christ Church on Tuesday when an exhibition by a Japanese meditative artist, Yoshida Kenji, will be opened in the south transept. On Wednesday evening, as part of the same event, there will be a concert by Liam O Maonlai and Joji Hirota entitled "Christ Church Unplugged".
Finally, on Thursday evening the annual Diocesan Mothers' Union Service will take place in Christ Church, where the preacher will be the Rector of Killiney, the Rev Ian Poulton.
All this activity takes place in the context of a full and exacting round of worship and administration. There are sung services, morning and evening, every day except Saturday in St Patrick's, while in Christ Church there is Evensong on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, in addition to the Sunday services.
There is, of course, much happening elsewhere. Today the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer will hold a Quiet Day in Holy Trinity Church, Drumbo, where the witness will be Canon Raymond Fox, Rector of Killaney and Carryduff.
Tomorrow RTE will broadcast a Parish Eucharist from Rathfarnham Parish Church, where the ministerial team, uniquely in the Church of Ireland, is the Rev Ted Woods and his wife, the Rev Anne Taylor.
In Howth, where the rector is Canon Cecil Hyland, the Archbishop of Dublin will dedicate a Garden of Remembrance.
On Tuesday the Chaplain of Trinity College Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack, will lead the 46th Annual Craigs Quiet Day, which is sponsored by the Ballymena Clerical Union, and on Wednesday the annual conference of the Irish College of Preachers begins in the Theological College. The theme of the conference will be "Unchaining the Word: an Introduction to Expository Preaching Today" and the leader will be the Rev Peter Ackroyd from London.
On Wednesday evening the Cashel and Ossory Mothers' Union Diocesan Festival Service will be held in St Mary's Church, Carlow, where the preacher will be the Rector of Delgany, the Rev Nigel Waugh, and on Thursday the Archbishop of Armagh will institute the Rev Barry Paine to the incumbency of Tynan, Aghavilly and Middletown.