Saturday 14 March 2015
St Patrick’s Tide Celebrations
The celebration of the patronal festival of our national saint get under way tomorrow (Sunday) when in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, there will be a Patronal Sequence of Music & Readings at Evensong. On Monday evening in Carrigaline, on the eve of St Patrick’s Day, there will be an Irish language celebration of the Eucharist in St Mary’s church at 7.30pm and on St Patrick’s Day in St John’s church, Sandymount, at 11am there will be a Communion Service with extracts from the O Riada Mass and prayers and hymns in Irish and English.
On Tuesday, St Patrick’s Day, in Downpatrick, the preacher at the Festival Service in Down cathedral will be the Archbishop of Canterbury. The service will be preceded by a celebration of Holy Communion in St Patrick’s Memorial church, Saul, where the preacher will be Dom MarkâEphrem from Holy Cross Monasterty, Rostrevor, and this will be followed by a pilgrimage from Saul to Downpatrick. Following the Festival Service in Down cathedral there will be a wreath laying ceremony at St Patrick’s grave.
In Cork the Bishop of Cork will preside and preach at the Festival Eucharist and Civic Service in St Fin Barre’s …read more
Read the full article here: http://ireland.anglican.org/index.php?do=news&newsid=5586
