Schedule and updates for Saint Patrick Orthodox Church in Clifden, Ireland
God be merciful to us and bless us,
Psalm of David 67:1
And cause His face to shine upon us.
The Orthodox calendar integrates a tapestry of fasts, feasts, scripture readings, and hagiography. Some of these dates, such as Pascha (Easter), change from year to year, while others, such as Christmas, remain fixed. Unlike most Western practices, we continue to follow the Julian calendar. This means that most of our dates, including Christmas, fall 13 days after the same feast on the Western Calendar. An Orthodox lifestyle strives for daily observance of these cycles. Many online Orthodox calendars, such as this one, make such information easy to access. Meanwhile, our schedule and updates will be posted below.
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October 2025 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,
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September 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
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July and August 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
We needed an Incarnate God, a God put to death, that we might live. We were put to death together with Him, that we might be cleansed; we rose again with Him because we were put to death with Him; we were glorified with Him, because we rose again with Him.
— St. Gregory the Theologian, Oration 45, 28