November 2026 Service Schedule

NOVEMBER 2026 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND

Our service schedule for November 2026 will include the start of the 40-day Advent which leads to Christmas. Though the fast begins on Sat. 28.11, the last day for meat, eggs, and cheese according to this month’s calendar will happen on Thursday, 26.11. Many special feast days, meanwhile, lead into this transition, including the feasts of Saint John Kronstadt (1.11), Apostle James (5.11), Saint Saint Demetrius (8.11), Saint John Chrysostom (26.11), and Apostle Philip (27.11). In fact, sometimes, the Advent fast is also called St. Philip’s Fast since his feast marks the last day before it begins.

Notably, moreover, 11.11 marks the feast of Saint Martin of Tours, who remains even today a beloved western saint. Saint Martin of Tours was well-known to the early Irish Church. As early as the 6th Century, the Vita Columbani by Jonas of Bobbio mentions St. Martin’s tomb as a well-known and beloved pilgrimage of the Irish missionaries to the continent. As always, we welcome guests if they can please contact Mat. Anastasia to arrange a visit.

Martin, who is still but a catechumen, clothed me with this robe.

_{Christ to His angels, appearing in a dream wearing the half of the young St. Martin’s own cloak which Martin had given to a naked beggar to save his life from the bitter cold. This particular story, as related by Saint Martin’s friend and biographer, 4th C. Sulpicius Severus, illustrates the profound Christian virtue, as taught in Matthew 25:36, of seeing Christ in every human face. Such virtue was well known to the early Irish Church, and illustrated in the story of Saint Brigit giving to the poor all her slave-master’s butter because, “It is difficult for me to deprive Christ of his own food.”}