A Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was inaugurated in Dublin last night with an ecumenical service in the Pro-Cathedral at 8 p.m.
The address was given by a former Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin, the Most Rev Donald Caird. If Ireland could give "such a brilliant lead to the world" in the peace process, "what may it not give when Irish people turn with equal determination to the promotion of ecumenism . . ?" he asked.
An interdenominational service for unity will take place at St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, tonight. It will be addressed by the Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Dr Keith O'Brien.
Other services during the week will include Seirbhis in Gaeilge at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Friday (8 p.m.), and ecumenical vespers in the Greek Orthodox Church, Arbour Hill, Dublin, on Saturday, (5 p.m.)
The 34th annual Greenhills ecumenical conference will take place on Monday, January 24th. The guest speaker, Dr J.C. McCullough, principal of Union Theological College, Belfast, will give an address on the theme "An Ecumenical Spirituality".
