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 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…
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Service Schedule October 2024
OCTOBER 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND The feast of Saint Longinus as well as the Irish Saint Gall, on October 29, 2024, will mark one year since our first liturgy in Saint Patrick’s Chapel. It is difficult for us to express how grateful we are for the growth and transformations that…
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Service Schedule September 2024
SEPTEMBER 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND With the Orthodox calendar ending in August with the Dormition of the Theotokos and Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, September marks the beginning of a new liturgical year. We will celebrate this month the Nativity of the Theotokos and the Universal Exaltation of 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