The work of rehanging the bells from St George's Church, Temple Street, which were the gift of the renowned architect Francis Johnston, in Christ Church, Taney, Dundrum, began in early November. The project will be completed before Christmas, in good time to ring in the new millennium.
Tomorrow morning there will be a Service of Blessing of the work, after which the chairman of the Government Millennium Committee, Mr Seamus Brennan, will present a contribution to the parish.
Fund-raising has been under way for some time, and several families have sponsored the cost of a bell. The entire project, which also includes refurbishment of the porch of Christ Church and some ancillary work, will cost £70,000.
A Taney Change-Ringers Society has been formed, and weekly instruction is being provided in the art of campanology. The ringing master is Cyril Galbraith, and the members of the committee are Heather Faull, George Strong, Alan Hamilton and Stephanie Lloyd.
The bell-ringing fraternity is both international and interdenominational, and it is hoped there will be participation from the wider community.
Tonight at 11.30 p.m. in the Chapel of Trinity College Dublin there will be a "First Supper", a vigil love feast, designed by the ecumenical liturgy group, to welcome in the beginning of the Christian millennium.
Tomorrow is Advent Sunday, which will be marked in the leading cathedrals by Advent Processions. BBC Radio Ulster will broadcast a service conducted by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, while RTE will carry Morning Service from St Columba's Church, Knock, where the rector is the Ven Gregor Mccamley.
The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will preach at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College Dublin, while in Christ Church Cathedral the first in a series of lay reflections on faith for the third millennium, will be given by Maria Jannson, an ordinand in the Theological College.
In St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, the Annual Dr Webster Sermon will be delivered by Dr Alan Acheson, and in St McCartan's Cathedral, Enniskillen, in the afternoon there will be a Millennium Celebration for the Diocese of Clogher.
On Tuesday, St Andrew's Day, the Bishop of Limerick, the Right Rev Edward Darling, will mark the 14th anniversary of his consecration by presiding at the Eucharist in St Mary's Cathedral.
The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will institute the Rev Cecil Bryan to the incumbency of Tullow, while the Rector of Stradbally, Canon William Beare, will be installed as Dean of St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore.
Wednesday has been designed as World HIV-AIDS Day, in response to which the Church of Ireland Chaplain in Trinity College, Dr Alan McCormack, will co-ordinate an evening liturgy in the College Chapel.
In Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines, the C of I Theological College will hold its Advent Carol Service.
The final lecture in the "Theology at the Turn of the Millennium" series in Trinity College Dublin will be given on Thursday evening by Dr Gabriel Daly. His subject will be "Theology, Science and Scientism".
St John's Church, Sandy mount, is one of the relatively few parish churches to maintain a daily tradition of prayer through the celebration of the Eucharist. Not many people today are free to come to church every day and so to encourage the sense of praying together every day, St John's has produced a scheme of prayer, entitled Praying Together for Advent.