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 February 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
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Workshop: Orthodox Education in Ireland
WORKSHOP TO DEVELOP ORTHODOX EDUCATION IN IRELAND Help Develop Orthodox Education in Ireland We invite Orthodox parents and teachers to join us at a workshop to develop an online Orthodox educational program in Ireland. Saint Patrick Orthodox Mission, along with Dr. Valentina Tarkovska, are organising the event: Topics will include troubleshooting the problems of online
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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
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