UPDATED DECEMBER 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND
PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR SCHEDULE HAS CHANGED. The Divine Liturgy for Sunday 5 January will now take place in Stradbally rather than the Clifden chapel.
Our Service Schedule for December 2024 extends until Christmas on January 7, 2025. Having begun Advent, also known by Orthodox as Saint Philip’s Fast, just after the Feast of Saint Philip, we will continue to fast through December and into the New Year. On the 25th of December, we will celebrate the feast of three beloved Saints: Finnian of Clonard, Herman of Alaska, and Spyridon. Saint Finnian founded Skellig Michael, and spiritually fathered many Irish and Celtic saints. Christmas will be celebrated in the Orthodox Church of Saint Colman of Stradbally (Stradbally).
Listen! As long as debate with me rested on proofs, I would counter one proof with another, and through my proficiency in debate could rebut everything posed to me. However, when instead of logical proofs, from the lips of this Elder there came some special power, my proofs became powerless against it, for man cannot stand up against God. If any of you is able to think as I do, let him believe on Christ and together with me follow after this Elder, through whose lips God Himself spoke.
A Greek philosopher who defended the Arian heresy of denying the incarnate divinity of Christ at the First Ecumenical Council of 325 AD., but who became persuaded by the oration of Saint Spyridon.
Schedule of Services for December 2024 through Christmas
- Sa 30.11: 6 pm – 9 pm All-Night Vigil
- Su 01.12: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy
- Sa 07.12: 22 pm – 23 pm Vespers
- Su 08.12: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy
- Sa 14.12: 6 pm – 9 pm All-Night Vigil
- Su 15.12: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy
- Sa 21.12: 6 pm – 9 pm All-Night Vigil
- Su 22.12: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy
- Tu 24.12: 6 pm – 9 pm All-Night Vigil
- We 25.12: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy for Saint Spyridon and Saint Finnian of Clonard
- Sa 28.12: 6 pm – 9 pm All-Night Vigil
- Su 29.12: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy
- Sa 04.01: 10 am Divine Liturgy for Great Martyr Anastasia in the parish of Saint John of Shanghai (Belfast)
- Su 05.01: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy in the parish of Saint Colman of Stradbally (Stradbally)
- Mo 06.01: 10 am Vesperal Liturgy in the parish of Saint Colman of Stradbally (Stradbally)
- Mo 06.01: 5 pm – 8 pm Great Compline and All-Night Vigil in the parish of Saint Colman of Stradbally (Stradbally)
- Tu 07.02: 9 am – 12 pm Hours and Divine Liturgy for Christmas in the parish of Saint Colman of Stradbally (Stradbally)
