AUGUST 2024 SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR SAINT PATRICK’S CHAPEL IN CLIFDEN, IRELAND
We observe the third Orthodox fast of the year between the 14th and 27th of August, in preparation of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary on the 28th. Please note that, on the first weekend of the month, we will be celebrating services in Stradbally. Also, we will be travelling for the next two weekends and unable to hold services in Clifden.
Service Schedule August 2024
- Sa and Su 03-04.08: Services celebrated in Saint Colman’s Orthodox Church, Stradbally
- Sa and Su 10-11.08: No Services
- Sa and Su 17-18.08: No Services
- Sa 24.08: 5 pm – 8 pm All-Night Vigil
- Su 25.08: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy
- Tu 27.08: 5 pm – 8 pm All-Night Vigil
- We 28.08: 9:30 am – 12 pm Hours and Divine Liturgy, Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos
- Sa 31.08: 5 pm – 8 pm All-Night Vigil
- Su 01.09: 9 am – 11:30 am Hours and Divine Liturgy
“The fact is, God loved men, and it was for their sake that He made the world; at their service He placed everything on earth; to them He gave reason and intelligence; them alone He endowed with the ability to look up to Him; them He formed after His own image; to them He sent His Only-begotten Son; to them He promised the kingdom in heaven, and this He will give to those that love Him.
“And when you have acquired this knowledge, with what joy do you think you will be filled! Or how intensely will you love Him who first loved you so! And once you love Him, you will be an imitator of His kindness.
“And you must not be surprised that man can become an imitator of God. He can, since He so wills. Certainly, to be happy does not mean to tyrannise over one’s neighbours, or to wish to have an advantage over the weaker ones, or to be rich and therefore able to use force against one’s inferiors. It is not in such matters that one can imitate God; no, such matters are foreign to His majesty.
“On the other hand, he who takes his neighbour’s burden upon himself, who is willing to benefit his inferior in a matter in which he is his superior, who provides the needy with what he himself has received from God and thus becomes the god of the recipients—he, I say, is an imitator of God!”