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FEBRUARY 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our February Service Schedule will observe the beginning of the Lenten Triodion to prepare for Great and Holy Lent and Pascha. Lent, the most important fast of the Orthodox Church, features often in the early Irish hagiography as a time of strenuous repentance. Starting with… Continue reading Service Schedule February 2025

January 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND After celebrating Christmas on January 7, the January 2025 Service Schedule enters the 12 festal days of Sviatki, or Christmastide. We will celebrate Theophany on Sunday, 19 January and bless the waters at Ballyconneely, a nearby Atlantic beach. We look forward to a new year… Continue reading Service Schedule January 2025

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… Continue reading UPDATED Service Schedule December 2024 through Christmas

NOVEMBER 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our November service schedule will begin with a liturgy to honour Saint John of Kronstadt along with a wonderful Saint of the early Celtic Church, Frideswide of Oxford (†735). Also, before we move into the Christmas fast, we will welcome the miracle-working myrrh-streaming “Hawaiian” Iveron… Continue reading Service Schedule November 2024

OCTOBER 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND The feast of Saint Longinus as well as the Irish Saint Gall, on October 29, 2024, will mark one year since our first liturgy in Saint Patrick’s Chapel. It is difficult for us to express how grateful we are for the growth and transformations that… Continue reading Service Schedule October 2024

SEPTEMBER 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND With the Orthodox calendar ending in August with the Dormition of the Theotokos and Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, September marks the beginning of a new liturgical year. We will celebrate this month the Nativity of the Theotokos and the Universal Exaltation of the… Continue reading Service Schedule September 2024

AUGUST 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND We observe the third Orthodox fast of the year between the 14th and 27th of August, in preparation of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary on the 28th. Please note that, on the first weekend of the month, we will… Continue reading Service Schedule August 2024

JULY 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND  Starting on the first of July, we observe the second major fast of the year, in preparation of the feast on July 12 of the Holy, Glorious and All-praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul († 67). We will also celebrate with the Divine Liturgy… Continue reading Service Schedule July 2024

JUNE 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND After our first Pascha in Saint Patrick’s chapel, we continue to celebrate the festal season between Pascha and Pentecost, including the Ascension of Our Lord. We will celebrate Pentecost (June 23) in at Saint Colman’s Orthodox Church in Stradbally. On the last weekend of June, we… Continue reading Service Schedule June 2024