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 July 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……
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Service Schedule June 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……
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Service Schedule May 2024
MAY 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND Following a crescendo of services in Holy Week, we finally celebrate Pascha, the feast of feasts! Christ is truly risen, trampling down death by death! On the very next day, Bright Monday, which also falls on the Feast of Great-martyr, Victory-bearer and Wonderworker Saint George, we……
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