Category: Monthly Service Schedule

OCTOBER 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our October 2025 Service Schedule will continue to follow the Orthodox calendar. Besides the feast of the Protection of the Theotokos, this month observes the feast of several apostles. Indeed, these include St. John the Theologian on Oct 9, Apostle Thomas on Oct 19. Likewise,… Continue reading October 2025 Service Schedule

SEPTEMBER 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our September 2025 Service Schedule will observe the restarting of the Church calendar year; wrapping up the previous year on September 13 (August 31 according to the Old Calendar). We will recall with fasting the beheading of the Forerunner, Saint John the Baptist, on September… Continue reading September 2025 Service Schedule

JULY/AUGUST 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND We begin our July 2025 Service Schedule with the Feast of Saint John Maximovich, Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco. As a brilliant light living in a dark world, Saint John continues to inspire many with his example and many intercessions. We will conclude the… Continue reading July and August 2025 Service Schedule

JUNE 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our June 2025 Service Schedule will begin with the Feast of Saint Helena just before the Pentecost, the Great Feast of the Holy Trinity. Rather than celebrating Pentecost in Clifden, we will celebrate the Feast at Saint Colman’s Orthodox Church in Stradbally. Fr. Robert will… Continue reading June 2025 Service Schedule

MAY 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE  FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our May 2025 Service Schedule will continue to rejoice in Pascaltide (Eastertide) which lasts for 50 days until Pentecost, which, as noted below, we will celebrate on 08.06 at Saint Colman’s Orthodox Church in Stradbally. For this festive season, we follow a special liturgical book… Continue reading May 2025 Service Schedule

APRIL 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our April 2025 Service Schedule begins with the first weekend at the Orthodox Church of Saint Colman in Stradbally. A Service of Holy Unction will be offered before the All-Night Vigil on Saturday, 05.04. The preparatory season of Holy Lent draws to a close with… Continue reading Service Schedule April 2025

MARCH 2025 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Our March 2025 Service Schedule will start with Forgiveness Sunday, also known as Forgiveness Sunday (02.03), directly followed by the first day of Great and Holy Lent on Clean Monday. Proceeding through the most difficult fast of the year, March will conclude with the Orthodox… Continue reading Service Schedule March 2025

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