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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Service Schedule January 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……
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UPDATED Service Schedule December 2024 through Christmas
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……
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Service Schedule November 2024
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……
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