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06:01</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2025/03/10/three-things-we-give-up-when-we-turn-away-from-catholicism/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Three things we give up when we turn away from Catholicism" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RZ77GJ5V5VDJ7KO3XSSKCEXVHE.jpg?focal=706%2C415&auth=1c1797dc9ba70672361a792630b5cf7c59f9adb37bde4d63525d3138f867cd54&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RZ77GJ5V5VDJ7KO3XSSKCEXVHE.jpg?focal=706%2C415&auth=1c1797dc9ba70672361a792630b5cf7c59f9adb37bde4d63525d3138f867cd54&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RZ77GJ5V5VDJ7KO3XSSKCEXVHE.jpg?focal=706%2C415&auth=1c1797dc9ba70672361a792630b5cf7c59f9adb37bde4d63525d3138f867cd54&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RZ77GJ5V5VDJ7KO3XSSKCEXVHE.jpg?focal=706%2C415&auth=1c1797dc9ba70672361a792630b5cf7c59f9adb37bde4d63525d3138f867cd54&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RZ77GJ5V5VDJ7KO3XSSKCEXVHE.jpg?focal=706%2C415&auth=1c1797dc9ba70672361a792630b5cf7c59f9adb37bde4d63525d3138f867cd54&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2025/03/10/three-things-we-give-up-when-we-turn-away-from-catholicism/">Three things we give up when we turn away from Catholicism</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Unthinkable: Asking whether we have lost something from our lapsed Catholicism is not about rushing back to the past. It’s about facing the future with greater self-awareness</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-03-10T06:00:00Z">Mon Mar 10 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article></div></div><div id="arcad-feature-f0fIsEq29Dle7DH-17ed5040e98c1d" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fIsEq29Dle7DH-17ed5040e98c1d" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><div id="fusion-static-enter:html-block-f0fj3jgrWOHj7J8" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0fj3jgrWOHj7J8"></div><div><hr class></div><div id="fusion-static-exit:html-block-f0fj3jgrWOHj7J8" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0fj3jgrWOHj7J8"></div><div class="c-grid b-top-table-list"><div class="c-grid b-top-table-list-medium-container false"><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/03/07/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/03/07/church-services/">Church services</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, March 8th, 2025</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-03-07T06:00:01Z">Fri Mar 07 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/28/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/28/church-services/">Church services</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, March 1st, 2025</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-28T06:00:01Z">Fri Feb 28 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/life-style/people/2025/02/22/from-journalist-to-lecturer-to-buddhist-priest-everyone-is-obsessed-with-their-own-self/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="From national journalism and lecturing in TU Dublin to living as a Buddhist priest" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQVUWHZY2REEHBNWJ5YGFQCZO4.JPG?focal=4190%2C1233&auth=5cd75300b9e86316df9cc5fff4ee7966f6a20358061844565104dd770ba88737&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQVUWHZY2REEHBNWJ5YGFQCZO4.JPG?focal=4190%2C1233&auth=5cd75300b9e86316df9cc5fff4ee7966f6a20358061844565104dd770ba88737&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQVUWHZY2REEHBNWJ5YGFQCZO4.JPG?focal=4190%2C1233&auth=5cd75300b9e86316df9cc5fff4ee7966f6a20358061844565104dd770ba88737&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQVUWHZY2REEHBNWJ5YGFQCZO4.JPG?focal=4190%2C1233&auth=5cd75300b9e86316df9cc5fff4ee7966f6a20358061844565104dd770ba88737&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQVUWHZY2REEHBNWJ5YGFQCZO4.JPG?focal=4190%2C1233&auth=5cd75300b9e86316df9cc5fff4ee7966f6a20358061844565104dd770ba88737&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/life-style/people/2025/02/22/from-journalist-to-lecturer-to-buddhist-priest-everyone-is-obsessed-with-their-own-self/">From national journalism and lecturing in TU Dublin to living as a Buddhist priest</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Lecturer and journalist Ian Kilroy has published a new book in which he describes his practice as a Zen Buddhist priest, and offers his perspective on the importance of Buddhist teachings </p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-22T05:00:00Z">Sat Feb 22 2025 - 05:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/20/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/20/church-services/">Church services</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning February 22nd, 2025</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-20T06:00:01Z">Thu Feb 20 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/crime-law/2025/02/16/psni-urged-to-move-beyond-woke-quota-of-50-50-recruitment-with-catholics-reluctant-to-join-force/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="PSNI urged to move beyond ‘woke quota’ of 50-50 recruitment with Catholics reluctant to join force " class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LGX4IKJRCC4RHS36JHYBV7HMUI.jpg?focal=469%2C278&auth=247c1052c9713f2a110ea96b70e20719d8a5fd3ae74c9e6737dde6c2fabd32fe&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LGX4IKJRCC4RHS36JHYBV7HMUI.jpg?focal=469%2C278&auth=247c1052c9713f2a110ea96b70e20719d8a5fd3ae74c9e6737dde6c2fabd32fe&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LGX4IKJRCC4RHS36JHYBV7HMUI.jpg?focal=469%2C278&auth=247c1052c9713f2a110ea96b70e20719d8a5fd3ae74c9e6737dde6c2fabd32fe&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LGX4IKJRCC4RHS36JHYBV7HMUI.jpg?focal=469%2C278&auth=247c1052c9713f2a110ea96b70e20719d8a5fd3ae74c9e6737dde6c2fabd32fe&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LGX4IKJRCC4RHS36JHYBV7HMUI.jpg?focal=469%2C278&auth=247c1052c9713f2a110ea96b70e20719d8a5fd3ae74c9e6737dde6c2fabd32fe&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/crime-law/2025/02/16/psni-urged-to-move-beyond-woke-quota-of-50-50-recruitment-with-catholics-reluctant-to-join-force/">PSNI urged to move beyond ‘woke quota’ of 50-50 recruitment with Catholics reluctant to join force </a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">DUP leader Gavin Robinson says ‘policing should be about ability, not religion’</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-16T11:43:23.497Z">Sun Feb 16 2025 - 11:43</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article></div></div><div id="arcad-feature-f0fYMvxq5n2F8rL-e602236b9321b" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 kjbLvz arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:fluidpx"><div id="arcad_f0fYMvxq5n2F8rL-e602236b9321b" class="arcad ad-fluid"></div></div></div><div id="fusion-static-enter:html-block-f0f49JCty1cz4u9" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0f49JCty1cz4u9"></div><div><hr class></div><div id="fusion-static-exit:html-block-f0f49JCty1cz4u9" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0f49JCty1cz4u9"></div><div class="c-grid b-top-table-list"><div class="c-grid b-top-table-list-medium-container false"><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/14/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/14/church-services/">Church services</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning February 15th, 2025</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-14T06:00:01Z">Fri Feb 14 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/07/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/07/church-services/">Church services</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, February 8th, 2025</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-07T12:46:14.804Z">Fri Feb 07 2025 - 12:46</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/2025/02/07/trends-show-rise-in-support-for-irish-unity-among-northern-voters/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Trends show rise in support for Irish unity among Northern voters " class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/R5ECJTQ77ZZ7KLIPEQSBX2CBWE.jpg?focal=2065%2C1637&auth=0d6206f6ce1aed961e6c22befb216575957f2a430aff7cecc4671eda04aa46f7&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/R5ECJTQ77ZZ7KLIPEQSBX2CBWE.jpg?focal=2065%2C1637&auth=0d6206f6ce1aed961e6c22befb216575957f2a430aff7cecc4671eda04aa46f7&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/R5ECJTQ77ZZ7KLIPEQSBX2CBWE.jpg?focal=2065%2C1637&auth=0d6206f6ce1aed961e6c22befb216575957f2a430aff7cecc4671eda04aa46f7&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/R5ECJTQ77ZZ7KLIPEQSBX2CBWE.jpg?focal=2065%2C1637&auth=0d6206f6ce1aed961e6c22befb216575957f2a430aff7cecc4671eda04aa46f7&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/R5ECJTQ77ZZ7KLIPEQSBX2CBWE.jpg?focal=2065%2C1637&auth=0d6206f6ce1aed961e6c22befb216575957f2a430aff7cecc4671eda04aa46f7&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/2025/02/07/trends-show-rise-in-support-for-irish-unity-among-northern-voters/">Trends show rise in support for Irish unity among Northern voters </a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Northern Protestants remain overwhelmingly against unity but show growing losers' consent</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-07T06:00:00Z">Fri Feb 07 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/2025/02/07/support-for-irish-unification-grows-but-unity-vote-would-be-soundly-defeated-in-north-poll-shows/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Support for Irish unification growing in Northern Ireland, poll finds" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KPQ4VWJZR5OI7XJRGG2CWOIJF4.jpg?smart=true&auth=17e8f2bbebaa4da917a2641ae78c4448ebb0ddc1e7c54e727ba287fb06843f11&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KPQ4VWJZR5OI7XJRGG2CWOIJF4.jpg?smart=true&auth=17e8f2bbebaa4da917a2641ae78c4448ebb0ddc1e7c54e727ba287fb06843f11&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KPQ4VWJZR5OI7XJRGG2CWOIJF4.jpg?smart=true&auth=17e8f2bbebaa4da917a2641ae78c4448ebb0ddc1e7c54e727ba287fb06843f11&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KPQ4VWJZR5OI7XJRGG2CWOIJF4.jpg?smart=true&auth=17e8f2bbebaa4da917a2641ae78c4448ebb0ddc1e7c54e727ba287fb06843f11&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KPQ4VWJZR5OI7XJRGG2CWOIJF4.jpg?smart=true&auth=17e8f2bbebaa4da917a2641ae78c4448ebb0ddc1e7c54e727ba287fb06843f11&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/2025/02/07/support-for-irish-unification-grows-but-unity-vote-would-be-soundly-defeated-in-north-poll-shows/">Support for Irish unification growing in Northern Ireland, poll finds</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">While unity vote would be soundly defeated in North a growing number of unionists support the holding of a border poll</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-02-07T06:00:00Z">Fri Feb 07 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article><article class="b-top-table-list-medium b-top-table-list-medium--show-image"><div><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/31/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=1200&height=675 1200w" width="800" height="450"/></a></figure><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/31/church-services/">Church services</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, 1st February, 2025</p><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-01-31T06:00:01Z">Fri Jan 31 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/></article></div></div><div id="arcad-feature-f0f9JLDtdLss4h0-8d06d6385a27b" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 kjbLvz arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:fluidpx"><div id="arcad_f0f9JLDtdLss4h0-8d06d6385a27b" class="arcad ad-fluid"></div></div></div><div id="fusion-static-enter:html-block-f0ffRpaFktyN4C8" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0ffRpaFktyN4C8"></div><div><hr class></div><div id="fusion-static-exit:html-block-f0ffRpaFktyN4C8" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0ffRpaFktyN4C8"></div><div id="lazy_98632" class="lazy_container"><div class="b-flex-chain"><div class="b-flex-chain__grid-container b-flex-chain__grid-container__12 gap"><div class="c-stack grid-item " data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack b-results-list__wrapper" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/24/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/24/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/24/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, 25th January, 2025</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-01-24T06:00:00Z">Fri Jan 24 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/17/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/17/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/17/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning January 18th, 2025</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-01-17T06:00:00.01Z">Fri Jan 17 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/world/asia-pacific/2025/01/13/indias-maha-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-starts-with-400-million-expected-to-attend/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="India’s Maha Kumbh Mela religious festival starts, with 400 million expected to attend" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/F2DUS23VSGYNICZVCIDIIG6KJA.jpg?focal=2269%2C1452&auth=c7961339f96b608ba654d746796b4a4e70f6da9fc47cb334dab23a1e14ad6f6f&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/F2DUS23VSGYNICZVCIDIIG6KJA.jpg?focal=2269%2C1452&auth=c7961339f96b608ba654d746796b4a4e70f6da9fc47cb334dab23a1e14ad6f6f&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/F2DUS23VSGYNICZVCIDIIG6KJA.jpg?focal=2269%2C1452&auth=c7961339f96b608ba654d746796b4a4e70f6da9fc47cb334dab23a1e14ad6f6f&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/world/asia-pacific/2025/01/13/indias-maha-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-starts-with-400-million-expected-to-attend/">India’s Maha Kumbh Mela religious festival starts, with 400 million expected to attend</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/world/asia-pacific/2025/01/13/indias-maha-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-starts-with-400-million-expected-to-attend/"><p class="c-paragraph">Nearly 15 million Hindu pilgrims attend first day of world’s biggest religious festival, held every 12 years</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-01-13T15:22:04.728Z">Mon Jan 13 2025 - 15:22</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/education/2025/01/13/plan-to-introduce-foreign-languages-at-primary-level-could-divert-time-from-irish/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Plan to introduce foreign languages at primary level could ‘divert time from Irish’" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7PTY3VTNV5G7ZD5CFP6U3DADCM.JPG?focal=286%2C186&auth=f2d1c57d1adcf77035f74c7a14f384a893773af93e1a2512d377d29e7d740a8c&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7PTY3VTNV5G7ZD5CFP6U3DADCM.JPG?focal=286%2C186&auth=f2d1c57d1adcf77035f74c7a14f384a893773af93e1a2512d377d29e7d740a8c&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7PTY3VTNV5G7ZD5CFP6U3DADCM.JPG?focal=286%2C186&auth=f2d1c57d1adcf77035f74c7a14f384a893773af93e1a2512d377d29e7d740a8c&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/education/2025/01/13/plan-to-introduce-foreign-languages-at-primary-level-could-divert-time-from-irish/">Plan to introduce foreign languages at primary level could ‘divert time from Irish’</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/education/2025/01/13/plan-to-introduce-foreign-languages-at-primary-level-could-divert-time-from-irish/"><p class="c-paragraph">New curriculum for primary schools draws contrasting reactions from teachers, parents and other stakeholders</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-01-13T06:00:00Z">Mon Jan 13 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/10/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/10/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/10/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, January 11th, 2025</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-01-10T06:00:00Z">Fri Jan 10 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/03/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/03/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/03/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, January 4th, 2025</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2025-01-03T06:00:00Z">Fri Jan 03 2025 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/29/the-catholic-churchs-jubilee-year-2025-is-a-time-of-celebration-an-expression-of-praise-to-god/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="The Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year 2025 is a time of celebration, an expression of praise to God" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JUOBZ25BPLRAU42XW6GHT7VSDQ.jpg?focal=2526%2C681&auth=f7fab58e270eaeda8ffdf4d3203830e5e5b2eb8ac9ed42e28a342ab92b2ff4b6&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JUOBZ25BPLRAU42XW6GHT7VSDQ.jpg?focal=2526%2C681&auth=f7fab58e270eaeda8ffdf4d3203830e5e5b2eb8ac9ed42e28a342ab92b2ff4b6&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JUOBZ25BPLRAU42XW6GHT7VSDQ.jpg?focal=2526%2C681&auth=f7fab58e270eaeda8ffdf4d3203830e5e5b2eb8ac9ed42e28a342ab92b2ff4b6&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/29/the-catholic-churchs-jubilee-year-2025-is-a-time-of-celebration-an-expression-of-praise-to-god/">The Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year 2025 is a time of celebration, an expression of praise to God</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/29/the-catholic-churchs-jubilee-year-2025-is-a-time-of-celebration-an-expression-of-praise-to-god/"><p class="c-paragraph">Rite & Reason: Pope Francis situates the need for hope in the challenging world of ‘gloomy discouragement and ill-concealed cynicism’</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-29T00:30:00Z">Sun Dec 29 2024 - 00:30</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/culture/books/review/2024/12/28/monasticism-in-ireland-ad-900-1250-by-edel-bhreathnach-a-valuable-contribution-to-the-history-of-the-irish-church/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Monasticism in Ireland: AD 900-1250 by Edel Bhreathnach – A valuable contribution to the history of the Irish church" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/CRJJYV5KVFM3RMFYLOS5VUBLFY.jpg?focal=3995%2C1895&auth=61d468258df0d54b54e89b1cedfb8e0ac19829784c0a71b8a9db0a695dd8ff72&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/CRJJYV5KVFM3RMFYLOS5VUBLFY.jpg?focal=3995%2C1895&auth=61d468258df0d54b54e89b1cedfb8e0ac19829784c0a71b8a9db0a695dd8ff72&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/CRJJYV5KVFM3RMFYLOS5VUBLFY.jpg?focal=3995%2C1895&auth=61d468258df0d54b54e89b1cedfb8e0ac19829784c0a71b8a9db0a695dd8ff72&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/culture/books/review/2024/12/28/monasticism-in-ireland-ad-900-1250-by-edel-bhreathnach-a-valuable-contribution-to-the-history-of-the-irish-church/">Monasticism in Ireland: AD 900-1250 by Edel Bhreathnach – A valuable contribution to the history of the Irish church</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/culture/books/review/2024/12/28/monasticism-in-ireland-ad-900-1250-by-edel-bhreathnach-a-valuable-contribution-to-the-history-of-the-irish-church/"><p class="c-paragraph">A scholarly work that seeks to deepen our understanding of Irish monasticism and its influence on church traditions</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-28T00:00:00Z">Sat Dec 28 2024 - 00:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/25/on-christmas-day-what-family-and-friends-believe-about-christ-will-be-irrelevant/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="On Christmas Day, what family and friends believe about Christ will be irrelevant" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/T2CKOKMOTRCXBM2U2GKFUNQ74I.JPG?focal=2225%2C1318&auth=e8f1f8fbdce1aaadd4c1f8ac8a5f531cddf5d175ca0fcb0800ed485be38fe04f&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/T2CKOKMOTRCXBM2U2GKFUNQ74I.JPG?focal=2225%2C1318&auth=e8f1f8fbdce1aaadd4c1f8ac8a5f531cddf5d175ca0fcb0800ed485be38fe04f&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/T2CKOKMOTRCXBM2U2GKFUNQ74I.JPG?focal=2225%2C1318&auth=e8f1f8fbdce1aaadd4c1f8ac8a5f531cddf5d175ca0fcb0800ed485be38fe04f&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/25/on-christmas-day-what-family-and-friends-believe-about-christ-will-be-irrelevant/">On Christmas Day, what family and friends believe about Christ will be irrelevant</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/25/on-christmas-day-what-family-and-friends-believe-about-christ-will-be-irrelevant/"><p class="c-paragraph">Rite & Reason: What makes Christmas religious is that regardless of their specific beliefs, people come together to celebrate the mystery and beauty of life</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-25T00:30:00Z">Wed Dec 25 2024 - 00:30</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/2024/12/26/whither-now-for-our-declining-churches-younger-clergy-reflect-on-a-brighter-future/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Where to now for our declining churches? Younger clergy reflect on a brighter future" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/UEI7ZXADG5CJ5B6P4CU67GEL7M.JPG?focal=3098%2C1647&auth=09f82b75cb494c30b2d872b6da5c7d2121f58d15f815b9432c6be7d09283ab93&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/UEI7ZXADG5CJ5B6P4CU67GEL7M.JPG?focal=3098%2C1647&auth=09f82b75cb494c30b2d872b6da5c7d2121f58d15f815b9432c6be7d09283ab93&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/UEI7ZXADG5CJ5B6P4CU67GEL7M.JPG?focal=3098%2C1647&auth=09f82b75cb494c30b2d872b6da5c7d2121f58d15f815b9432c6be7d09283ab93&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/2024/12/26/whither-now-for-our-declining-churches-younger-clergy-reflect-on-a-brighter-future/">Where to now for our declining churches? Younger clergy reflect on a brighter future</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/2024/12/26/whither-now-for-our-declining-churches-younger-clergy-reflect-on-a-brighter-future/"><p class="c-paragraph">Exciting times are ahead for Christian communities, based on joy, hope, energy and finding context and relevance in contemporary society</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-24T06:00:00Z">Tue Dec 24 2024 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/20/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/20/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/20/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday December 21st, 2024</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-20T06:00:00Z">Fri Dec 20 2024 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/education/2024/12/16/lucan-school-to-review-ethos-statement-over-message-telling-parents-students-must-attend-all-religious-ceremonies/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Dublin school to review ethos statement over message telling parents students must attend all religious ceremonies" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/T4LRKGX2MBCL7F3UA7AJDHVHZY.jpg?smart=true&auth=d00f8855d2801c32e7113fb90128397167e9de84799b0370446fbf2c592d97a1&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/T4LRKGX2MBCL7F3UA7AJDHVHZY.jpg?smart=true&auth=d00f8855d2801c32e7113fb90128397167e9de84799b0370446fbf2c592d97a1&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/T4LRKGX2MBCL7F3UA7AJDHVHZY.jpg?smart=true&auth=d00f8855d2801c32e7113fb90128397167e9de84799b0370446fbf2c592d97a1&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/education/2024/12/16/lucan-school-to-review-ethos-statement-over-message-telling-parents-students-must-attend-all-religious-ceremonies/">Dublin school to review ethos statement over message telling parents students must attend all religious ceremonies</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/education/2024/12/16/lucan-school-to-review-ethos-statement-over-message-telling-parents-students-must-attend-all-religious-ceremonies/"><p class="c-paragraph">Lobby group Education Equality says school's instruction breached children’s constitutional rights</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-16T20:34:02.716Z">Mon Dec 16 2024 - 20:34</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/13/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/13/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/13/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning December 14th, 2024</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-13T19:00:00Z">Fri Dec 13 2024 - 19:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/06/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/06/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/06/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning 7th December, 2024</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-06T06:00:00Z">Fri Dec 06 2024 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/culture/books/review/2024/12/02/southern-irish-protestants-by-ian-dalton-a-work-of-great-originality-and-scholarship/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Southern Irish Protestants by Ian D’Alton: A work of great originality and scholarship " class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7LT3T3JU6VZQXGBMK4FHWTJSCI.jpg?focal=1520%2C1330&auth=60fa0c6459a18d2b76611f2b5e8bacdd67e5321373a1f833ecd6b619dc8da8bd&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7LT3T3JU6VZQXGBMK4FHWTJSCI.jpg?focal=1520%2C1330&auth=60fa0c6459a18d2b76611f2b5e8bacdd67e5321373a1f833ecd6b619dc8da8bd&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7LT3T3JU6VZQXGBMK4FHWTJSCI.jpg?focal=1520%2C1330&auth=60fa0c6459a18d2b76611f2b5e8bacdd67e5321373a1f833ecd6b619dc8da8bd&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/culture/books/review/2024/12/02/southern-irish-protestants-by-ian-dalton-a-work-of-great-originality-and-scholarship/">Southern Irish Protestants by Ian D’Alton: A work of great originality and scholarship </a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/culture/books/review/2024/12/02/southern-irish-protestants-by-ian-dalton-a-work-of-great-originality-and-scholarship/"><p class="c-paragraph">Author connects particular concerns, often focused on Cork Protestantism, with wider debates</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-04T04:10:00Z">Wed Dec 04 2024 - 04:10</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/01/churches-carry-huge-crosses-as-they-try-to-move-on-from-mistakes-of-past/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Churches carry huge crosses as they try to move on from mistakes of past" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/BUYQVURYYJEX3ANOFIGVUZIZCY.jpg?smart=true&auth=ea80a04af22e247aed06bd052455a528583e324b060700bf781d3604de746677&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/BUYQVURYYJEX3ANOFIGVUZIZCY.jpg?smart=true&auth=ea80a04af22e247aed06bd052455a528583e324b060700bf781d3604de746677&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/BUYQVURYYJEX3ANOFIGVUZIZCY.jpg?smart=true&auth=ea80a04af22e247aed06bd052455a528583e324b060700bf781d3604de746677&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/01/churches-carry-huge-crosses-as-they-try-to-move-on-from-mistakes-of-past/">Churches carry huge crosses as they try to move on from mistakes of past</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/12/01/churches-carry-huge-crosses-as-they-try-to-move-on-from-mistakes-of-past/"><p class="c-paragraph">Rite & Reason: All Churches face huge challenges moving on from terrible abuses into an advancing secularism</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-12-01T00:30:00Z">Sun Dec 01 2024 - 00:30</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/29/church-services/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Church services" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png?smart=true&auth=d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/29/church-services/">Church services</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/29/church-services/"><p class="c-paragraph">Week beginning Saturday, November 30th, 2024</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-11-29T06:00:00Z">Fri Nov 29 2024 - 06:00</time></div></div><hr class="c-divider"/><div class="b-results-list b-results-list--show-image"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/11/24/why-is-there-a-christian-monopoly-on-chaplaincy-in-irish-institutions/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Why is there a Christian monopoly on chaplaincy in Irish institutions?" class="c-image" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/XMDVLC3GWJFA3JH5K6S5LDBXV4.jpeg?smart=true&auth=297bf418a61d02c2b13e8c2a9579a42018ac27f8437e541256e84a3dd99f4d09&width=500&height=333" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/XMDVLC3GWJFA3JH5K6S5LDBXV4.jpeg?smart=true&auth=297bf418a61d02c2b13e8c2a9579a42018ac27f8437e541256e84a3dd99f4d09&width=250&height=166 250w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/XMDVLC3GWJFA3JH5K6S5LDBXV4.jpeg?smart=true&auth=297bf418a61d02c2b13e8c2a9579a42018ac27f8437e541256e84a3dd99f4d09&width=500&height=333 500w" sizes="(min-width: 48rem) 500px, 250px" width="500" height="333"/></a></figure><h3 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/11/24/why-is-there-a-christian-monopoly-on-chaplaincy-in-irish-institutions/">Why is there a Christian monopoly on chaplaincy in Irish institutions?</a></h3><a class="c-link" href="/opinion/2024/11/24/why-is-there-a-christian-monopoly-on-chaplaincy-in-irish-institutions/"><p class="c-paragraph">Rite & Reason: Iron grip that Christian denominations have over chaplaincy in Ireland cannot continue</p></a><div class="c-attribution"><time class="c-date" dateTime="2024-11-24T00:30:00Z">Sun Nov 24 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Tech company <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/facebook/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/facebook/\">Facebook</a> censors our news feeds to silence voices for justice. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/google/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/google/\">Google</a> abandons geography for nasty right-wing politics, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/01/28/google-maps-in-us-will-rename-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/01/28/google-maps-in-us-will-rename-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/\">renaming the Gulf of Mexico</a> on Google Maps. This same company abandons its diversity policy, while white nationalists march freely through the towns of America and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a> offers Nazi salutes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FV5QPONXUNHDBFR4VOU6DWMGXU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Unchecked and unbalanced billionaires Trump and Musk are entwined in a heady and earth-shattering relationship","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YR4YXYHK6ZC6DP7P5DGK6XKG5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The global economy that we have in Ireland is poised to adapt its tactics and play by the insane new rules. The Government is in the process of abandoning the ethical reasoning behind the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/occupied-territories-bill/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/occupied-territories-bill/\">Occupied Territories Bill</a> and media commentators will soon be mouthing the predictable line: “We have to live in the real world.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHZS3VDRZVE6XDMVMZNIQIBQJQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Anti-immigration rhetoric is on the rise here, with the Taoiseach kowtowing to Trump and his obscene presidency in the White House as he handed over the traditional bowl of shamrocks. We have lost our moral compass in Ireland. We like to think of ourselves as different, but we are no different. We will follow the dollar, no matter where it leads.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GT35I4MMVCX5B5SAWDFJVNA6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038066},"content":"Fascism demands a response of resistance. 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His engaged Buddhism led him to agitate against the Vietnamese War, as well as work to save drowning migrants with nowhere to land their boats, build schools and hospitals in impoverished rural areas, and push back on discrimination against Vietnamese Buddhists in his time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VEC7BZQB3RGPXAZRCMQI7FF4XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038068},"content":"We have the Baptist minister Martin Luthur King jnr, who campaigned for civil rights and filled the streets with his supporters, marching for peace and justice and speaking out against war. We have Maximilian Kobe, a Catholic friar that gave his life to take the place of another condemned to death in Auschwitz.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7O63Z4CUMRGIDKCBN63NVPW75U","additional_properties":{},"content":"No one is asking Meta to act as God - just not to pollute the public space with lies","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VHUH6AOUMZBLZI7UB27JKLA2QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038069},"content":"And more recently, although in a much more modest way, we have Epioscopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, whose sermon delivered to Trump spoke out in defence of the weak and vulnerable that his brutal policies have their sights on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WB7CFPV72FCSTOJ2ZPBDGUJZ3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038070},"content":"But as Thich Nhat Hanh taught us, to engage with right action, we have first to find peace within ourselves. Otherwise we will act from a place of anger. And this anger will lead to unskilful action, maybe adding fuel to the raging fire, rather than bringing a balm to cool things down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GPND3RWIVDVVBXFXMXU2IY4BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038071},"content":"And yet we have no time to spare. The urgency of all that is unfolding demands an immediate response. We have various options before us.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NRBA72B525A23LCLUETDYW2IQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038072},"content":"To sit down and meditate or kneel down and pray is possibly the most radical option we have. Finding silence and stillness brings us home to the reality of things – an interdependent world where compassion is the only reasonable response. This is not only non-doing and not causing harm, but it is also awakening to the deep reservoir of indefatigable love that wise action can be based on. It is touching again the divine spark.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7LEHLJF7ZC2JGIFGSM7AJYLK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"From national journalism and lecturing in TU Dublin to living as a Buddhist priest","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"DVEYLV4V3JFNVOFAMN3G2R2DRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038073},"content":"This fire is different from the fire of anger. It is a benevolent fire that carries us out into the world and into actions that relieve suffering and that offer resistance. Many Buddhists and Christians think we have no business as religious people entering the public square in this way. But what good is my private peace and piety if others are suffering?","type":"text"},{"_id":"QRVZ7TMJXVAJTOFAWXMAVEEL4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038074},"content":"The feeling that something urgently needs to be done is inescapable. Our own individual conscience must tell us what that is. We have a moral compass that we seem to have forgotten. Now’s the time to take it out to find our way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLDOBBYLCFHSZDFGI5NJTNPSNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038075},"content":"<i>Rev Myozan Ian Kilroy is a Zen Buddhist priest and abbot at Dublin Zen Centre. His new book, Do Not Try to Become a Buddha, is available from Wisdom Publications</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Rev Myozan Ian Kilroy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: To sit down and meditate or kneel down and pray is possibly the most radical option we have. 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Campion, B.A., B.Th., M.A., M.Phil. Canon Precentor. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG - sung by the Cathedral Choir- Responses: Leigh, Blair in B minor, Psalm: 84, Sumsion: Praise to the Lord of our Salvation, Rheinberger: Finale (Sonata no. 7). SAINT PATRICKS DAY- 9.15 EUCHARIST said in Irish in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Cathedral Choir. Preacher: The Very Revd W.W. Morton B.Th., M.A., Ph.D., M.Mus., D.Litt., Dean and Ordinary. 18.00 DUBLIN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES SERVICE. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 Tuesday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 Tuesday to Friday. For further information visit www.stpatrickscathedral.ie","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2VXT7BK2ZDB7FDMCD35GI36PM","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"AGUVYFNY6FHETB3NPHPLWWTMPY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Services Sunday 16th March LENT 2 Monamolin 9 am Holy Communion Ardamine 10.15 am Holy Communion Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Morning Prayer","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZ7CAJUVHBC5RABUJ4JNILHXII","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), with hymns and Anglican chant, the Second Sunday in Lent. Access through the main entrance. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RAN3DR47DBA3RFMNDUUJ6TCPLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30 Service of the Word, St Patrick, Apostle of Ireland. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDF5E3VZL5BW3MWSIABWJ3UMWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 16th March - The Second Sunday in Lent. 9am Holy Communion 1. 10.30am Holy Communion. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXS2QHOJQBGVXPUE73TN63ZGNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"AT2HJ3FMC5BGTKTODD4CEE46AE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\" rel=\"\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"X75B2JRTHZEOFOTUWO434Y5V5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"ERYNUIPVDRDVPFITEMV55V5WMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\" rel=\"\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"TS2SXGH3WVAATLKMVC54P53WKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at www.dlmc.org ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOH6UU4NOVARXOSUUVTOIQOXII","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"DREN3GDJURASHOOZIYM324SG5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Quaker Meetings in Ireland</b> Visitors are always welcome to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. You will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZHDU3D42BRDWNM2BGKZE4LBPAU","additional_properties":{},"content":" ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETERSHUN2FDV5HW357FRYJDIAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUKMCLNG7NFFXETUOHJ65DZP5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, March 15th, 2025"},"display_date":"2025-03-14T06:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2025/03/14/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"DYLQCXWRCJAQDL3A7QQGPIU7PI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":303,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/959e4e63-941a-435c-83be-d42585b86b42/versions/1741794093/media/5365bda088c08af25b746b93a2327a34_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/abroad/2025/03/13/an-irishman-abroad-ive-meditated-in-bosnian-mosques-thai-temples-and-ukrainian-orthodox-churches/","content_elements":[{"_id":"WGNERUH2CBDT7DP5FXUCYZPIGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909221},"content":"Buddhism was not a thing where I grew up. I barely knew any Protestants. There were three in my year at school. I didn’t dislike them, but I suppose I was keeping count.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EXMEJTFU2ZEXLOA25PQRLOF5EE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909222},"content":"Who knows why eastern mysticism never took off in Ireland?","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7VSK45QQVCAJGDRM3BXHGAGXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909223},"content":"Perhaps we’re too begrudging as a people. Not letting go of things is a cornerstone of our culture. If we believed in reincarnation, we’d probably look at newborn babies and think, “I know that b*****d. Oh, we’ve been waiting for you ... <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/oliver-cromwell/\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Cromwell</a>.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJVPF2AUIND7XDS5CCKWIW6DU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909224},"content":"I prayed well into my late teens, which is longer than is socially acceptable. My family weren’t devout Catholics. But I suffered from anxiety, so my mother suggested that prayer might help. It was the early 2000s in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kildare/\" target=\"_blank\">Kildare</a> and neither of us had any better ideas when it came to mental health.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2L6LJGROYZD6TGIIWSEY3FGDOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909225},"content":"By the time I started university I’d abandoned the practice entirely. Paranormal superstition had been replaced by delirious binge drinking. I was not a wine drinker, but if I could have turned water into a six pack of Bavaria lager then I would have.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JNXTFQJWGVCMBCWFBUKUBIHM4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909226},"content":"I was 22 when I stumbled upon meditation. In my fourth year of college I was feeling pretty low again and the campus counselling service pointed me towards a mindfulness class. The ability to separate my body from the troubled thoughts that plagued me was a revelation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZPZ2VGJBKVHYTCMZWUYJ2AMD7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909227},"content":"The effect was more soothing than I’d experienced with prayer. Meditation is about accepting things as they are without judgment, while prayer is the exact opposite. When we commune with God we usually have a laundry list of grievances we’d like him to sort out for us. A missing wedding ring, an exam result, a miracle cure. Praying to the Christian God is the spiritual equivalent of asking to speak to the manager. No wonder white people took to it so well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOAY2Y63LJDZ5K3DN7IPFLOBTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909228},"content":"Through a simple mindfulness exercise it’s possible to bring awareness to the present moment and liberate ourselves from toxic relationships with the past and future. It’s less about trying to change your situation than it is about stepping outside of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQ3KY6L7QFEO7IAS2QIV5XYUJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909229},"content":"My enthusiasm has ebbed and flowed over the years, but I try to keep up a regular routine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MXX7U3K4I5BWVERQCHALKOPOFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909230},"content":"Part of the fun is finding a quiet place to practice when I’m starting a new job or travelling abroad. I’ve meditated in Bosnian mosques, Thai temples and Ukrainian Orthodox churches. I’ve also had a go in my fair share of toilet cubicles. Overhearing the digestive movements of the bloke in the stall next to you makes enlightenment difficult, but not impossible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3OWIIAAUZDIVKWAG67ZTOXQQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909231},"content":"Different religious sects, health departments or mindfulness apps might insist you sit a certain way, recite a mantra, or even visualise a landscape or person. I’d be wary of anyone who claims to have found the “right” way to meditate. All you need to do, really, is slow down a little and notice what’s going on inside yourself. I find counting my inhales and exhales really helpful.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DGJFYN4ORDTPEYXJZ3ABUUV24","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909232},"content":"Body scans are great when I have the time. You can mix and match techniques to suit yourself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C73F6CAUSNFXHAYFMYTNOJEORE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909233},"content":"While the explosion in popularity of these practices is a good thing, I could do without my human resources department getting in on the act.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWX4R6EUVBDMDNUP4L4DIZ5V6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909234},"content":"The movement has been co-opted and shoved down the throats of overworked employees in offices around the world. If corporations are genuinely interested in staff wellbeing, they should offer better pay, more holidays and meaningful work. Reminding us to breathe at our desks should not be a workplace perk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WOG6FFEXBVFTDHU6EL2OBNMHZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909235},"content":"I dated a Buddhist for a few months. We met online, but happened to attend the same temple in East London. It was a curious experience to have a spiritual component to a romantic relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KGIVZL7EWZHFZKUAVFUK2A7UTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909236},"content":"This was the norm in Ireland and Britain until fairly recently with many couples meeting at church or attending services together every week. Today, if someone you met on the internet suggested Mass as a first date, most people would run a mile (unless you were using dating app Christian Mingle).","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOZI4K3QQJBIZC4PRFPPO26Q2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909237},"content":"Our relationship didn’t work out; it ended quite badly, actually.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOKOAM3F3ZAUBC5C5RLP3WFPSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909238},"content":"Here’s the thing about mindfulness: it won’t solve all your problems – it’s not supposed to.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TY3AHOZTWRDJTPTOZYBBGSRD7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909239},"content":"If your practice is consistent, you’ll hopefully enjoy some respite from the unnecessary suffering created by our overthinking minds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3T2VX5ZOVNFK5JESSVPQ3IIJSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909240},"content":"I can’t promise it will make your love life any easier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C237SQTVIVGAFJIXUKUMJLA3KA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741814909241},"content":"I guess we’re all on our own there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRICGXEMTZGQHOAFXHDMYE2CQ4","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Peter Flanagan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Peter Flanagan: 'Reminding us to breathe at our desks should not be a workplace perk'"},"display_date":"2025-03-13T06:01:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"An Irishman abroad: ‘I’ve meditated in Bosnian mosques, Thai temples and Ukrainian Orthodox churches’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"7XJLGQTHS5CKDPHGA2SXKQN75Y","auth":{"1":"b7f6cd1893599e0cf6d4309eb714d7ac5695e1134c0ca1c5c8694a4e727e3c43"},"focal_point":{"x":1354,"y":914},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7XJLGQTHS5CKDPHGA2SXKQN75Y.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Abroad"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/abroad/2025/03/13/an-irishman-abroad-ive-meditated-in-bosnian-mosques-thai-temples-and-ukrainian-orthodox-churches/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/abroad","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Abroad"}}}},{"_id":"Z5BIALP6KFCQ3IZTL2FJ2TKXPI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":326,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/a27fa29e-3542-4864-888c-860bf82ad8db/versions/1741373916/media/c7a964a898b2b1379fbd2c0eee9ee4e0_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/10/three-things-we-give-up-when-we-turn-away-from-catholicism/","content_elements":[{"_id":"EKUQTBQLJRCYZC22DDC6TYZ7YY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977660},"content":"What does <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\">St Patrick’s Day</a> mean to you? Boozy streets and sports fixtures? Parades of drummers and mock Donald Trumps? What was once a feast day commemorating the arrival of Christianity in Ireland is now almost entirely secularised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYVREQMMXBEKPFIEC2KKIOH3DY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977661},"content":"Proper order, you might say; we’ve had enough of that clericalist nonsense. But here’s a radical thought: Why not use the occasion to reappraise both the good and the bad of the Catholic Church in Ireland?","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVSTSYIBGFEBVIF5NDAT4OT3C4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977662},"content":"For those of us who grew up in a Catholic milieu there is some nostalgia over fading customs: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/03/05/come-all-ye-faithful-dublins-pro-cathedral-celebrates-ash-wednesday-the-start-of-lent/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/03/05/come-all-ye-faithful-dublins-pro-cathedral-celebrates-ash-wednesday-the-start-of-lent/\">ashes to mark the start of Lent</a>; the May processions; the sort of teenage flirting at Sunday Mass that The Saw Doctors sang about. But these are surface changes. What really matters is how we have altered within – psychologically or spiritually.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PDMMIJQKUNBULEUYQ52NMB4RQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977663},"content":"Although I am now an avowed atheist, I’m not blind to the consolations religious belief can bring. Three Christian convictions in particular come to mind:","type":"text"},{"_id":"HB4UCYKHEFFZ3IY6V6SKBEPK4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>1. The idea that someone ‘up there’ is looking out for you</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPOOLINDVNCZNHNPY4G5YCPFZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977665},"content":"I have a hazy recollection of believing that God loves me – and it felt great. Who wouldn’t want to think Jesus was watching out for you as one of his lost sheep? Because who has got your back, if not God? People? As Nick Cave says, people just ain’t no good.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N5NNYTQRKRHFDGJBH5HKIREGDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977666},"content":"<b>2.</b> <b>The idea that you will ‘get your reward in heaven’</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XP5I6F5BNBTPGIFOU2SF3CLYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977667},"content":"Do we appreciate just how much how of our thinking is altered once an afterlife vanishes from the imagination? If there is nothing beyond temporal existence then all our projects become secular and worldly. And, while it’s not inevitable that your sense of self-worth becomes bound up with earthly status or material gain, a drift towards that conclusion can be hard to resist.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QM6EFFHCC5HPNHSVOPTMTHDTPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>3. The idea that all your sins can be forgiven</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O6BELH2DBAFZN2XM6D3R6EZAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977669},"content":"Yes, God can be judgy, but God is also merciful. Confession is a psychological masterstroke. Admit your guilt, say a few Hail Marys and you can feel like a new man. What have we got instead?","type":"text"},{"_id":"VGWVHU2ZPBHKLI5KJIZXGE3JXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977670},"content":"“Terrible it is to be alone with the judge and avenger of one’s own law,” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/friedrich-nietzsche/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/friedrich-nietzsche/\">Friedrich Nietzsche</a> writes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B3TYVHPDTFH35BRDTIKNMPM4LQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977671},"content":"We are trapped with what <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jacques-lacan/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jacques-lacan/\">Jacques Lacan</a> calls “the obscene superego” – a badgering, judgmental voice that relentlessly tells us how we are failing. “Were we to meet this figure socially,” the psychotherapist Adam Phillips says, “this accusatory character, this internal critic, we would think there was something wrong with him.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWDMPJ76HZCDPE7VB5CH3IP4DI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977672},"content":"God’s mercy is capable of silencing the “superego”. How otherwise can we shut it up?","type":"text"},{"_id":"I465DPFMFJBSPKC3YRJUQCO2ZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977673},"content":"A <a href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/religion-and-psychiatry-recent-developments-in-research/358B30940A36C1CD3AFE7991431BA1A9\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/religion-and-psychiatry-recent-developments-in-research/358B30940A36C1CD3AFE7991431BA1A9\">number of studies</a> have shown a positive correlation between religious belief and mental health, although a strong faith has also been found to impede therapies. It would hypocritical of me to advocate faking belief for potential benefits. But it’s not unreasonable to ask whether declining religiosity in Irish society has contributed to rising rates of reported anxiety.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJMKLGFNKNCOTKRVVESRT4QKRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977674},"content":"What is certain is the waning power of the Church has influenced our public discourse and particularly our moral reasoning. Catholicism belongs to the “virtue theory” school of philosophical belief systems. These decree that the good life depends on cultivating virtues like courage, compassion and humility.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HL677BVKFAEVCVFKDG4YJUX5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Enlightenment gave rise to a habit of worshipping ‘great men’, but they never had to worry about dying in childbirth","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FH3PHZUTXVEXJLA4HJWDR52KGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977675},"content":"Virtue theory goes back to Ancient Greece but Christianity popularised it for two millenniums in the western world. It was overtaken by the language of rights during the Enlightenment. Today, however, the concept of human rights is under fire and morality is increasingly associated with either “the rule of the strongest” or else “whatever you feel like yourself”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LQDKETMXMFBNZE2CQNLOWSNXOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977676},"content":"In this tussle between authoritarianism and nihilism, we need a common language to bring decency and civility back to human relations. The language of virtue has this power.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7E7TPLCZ5B5NMYUD26ANKGJV4","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"473Y3RS2GJCXBIUSX3NA2UZZOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977677},"content":"Some of the world’s richest men would have you believe virtue is for losers. But <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\">Pope Francis</a> has a devastating response. He speaks not of rights, nor of grievances, but rather of the damage you are doing to yourself through vices like envy, rage and, above all, greed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2QCBNCTKNGLBCHKVVHOEEY4AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977678},"content":"Greed is an “an idolatry that kills”, <a href=\"https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-if-you-let-greed-your-heart-all-other-vices-will-follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-if-you-let-greed-your-heart-all-other-vices-will-follow\">Francis says</a>. It “opens the door, then comes in vanity – to think you’re important, to believe you’re powerful – and, in the end, pride, and from there all the vices, all of them”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXQYNQ6TVJHWVHOOHVNX2UQFHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977679},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TWGMPBGFIZEKLA2K5ACXRFN5RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977680},"content":"Greed is widespread today: in landlords opportunistically hiking rents; in financial “disrupters” evading social responsibilities; in politicians using public office to settle scores. But in our secular age, we don’t call it greed. We call it opportunity, ambition or “letting the market decide”. Christian teaching, or more broadly virtue theory, can help to bring us back to our senses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TBGSKWIWWRCIFJMTGEJ5MLDL5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"I43MEOVB4FBLDCJJFCRQYGPEHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977681},"content":"In his book <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-catholics-in-the-world-the-irish-the-church-and-the-end-of-a-special-relationship-1.4517948\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-catholics-in-the-world-the-irish-the-church-and-the-end-of-a-special-relationship-1.4517948\">The Best Catholics in the World</a>, Irish Times Berlin correspondent Derek Scally advocates creating a museum of Catholicism in Ireland that helps us to come to terms with our troubled relationship with the Church. If that is ever built, it should include a wing on Catholicism’s impact on our psychological and moral wellbeing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6KA36HTRVACLHSY7KDOCKY5R4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977682},"content":"It was often said that Ireland’s brand of Catholicism was slavish and unreflective. But has blind faith been replaced by lack of curiosity about what we now believe?","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MSVPPQ63BF35FAHE5DGME3F7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1741359977683},"content":"Asking whether we have lost something from our lapsed Catholicism is not about rushing back to the past. 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I do my vows and then I sit,” he says. “Sometimes it’s peaceful and quiet, everyone in the house is asleep. Or, they’re not. The boys are teenagers. Arthur will be upstairs putting weights down heavily. Our cat Rocky Road will be ‘Mee-owww’, and Éamonn will be going, ‘Rocky, Rocky, Rocky!’ I have to silence the Zoom call, because other people are sitting online. It’s ordinary life.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BANG2YA4ERDONGB47X6QW7OHFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050445},"content":"For Kilroy, practising these rituals as part of his usual home life is important. “The point of practice is not entering some kind of mystical state, although that does happen. The point is the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary is illusory. Realising that the ordinary is extraordinary and the extraordinary is ordinary is an insight through Zen practice. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/james-joyce/\" target=\"_blank\">James Joyce</a> had it in Ulysses too, seeing the habitual as amazing. A lot of artists see that in a speck of dust there is a universe. Scientists too. The cat and the noise of family life and all that is just part of reality.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AIVJFLZZMFFFHNCXZTTJQ4PIKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050446},"content":"Our lives have layers. Some people will know Kilroy as a journalist – he has worked at The Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune and The Irish Examiner – and others will be aware of him for his work as a lecturer in journalism at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/technological-university-dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">TU Dublin</a>. But layered alongside this is his embrace of Buddhism: he’s been a Buddhist since he was a teenager, and he is now a Zen Buddhist priest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IG4AMXO3ZVHVREEG5OEUCMTAWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050447},"content":"Kilroy meets me at the door of Dublin Zen Centre on Anglesea St in Dublin’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/temple-bar/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Bar</a>. Inside the cushion and floor mat-filled space, full with a scent of incense, a 20-strong community, ranging from their early 20s to late 70s, meet three times a week for “Zazen” or sitting. Beyond them, Kilroy describes “concentric circles” of others with mixed levels of engagement who come and go. We perch on folding chairs, drink little cups of tea and chat Zen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QH6EMMICWBDCFGSB7X7SR4L2P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050448},"content":"Kilroy, now Myozan in that layer of his life, has written a book, <a href=\"https://wisdomexperience.org/product/do-not-try-to-become-a-buddha/\" target=\"_self\">Do Not Try to Become a Buddha</a>, published by Wisdom (they publish the Dalai Lama too, “so I’m in good company!”). Subtitled Practicing Zen Right Where You Are, it illuminates Zen teachings and practice, but it’s rooted in the personal story of this Irishman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2NUNVZAXBG7VPOO7GXNMYGPAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050449},"content":"Growing up in Salthill, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/galway/\" target=\"_blank\">Galway</a>, in the 1980s, aged about 12 or 13, Kilroy came across a photo of the famous Buddha of Kamakura in the family encyclopedia. “You know the way an image can communicate, teach you something, silently. I went, Oh, there’s something there. This composure, peace.” We think cognition and rationality are prime, “but most of our decisions are intuitive”. Even then, he says, “I was looking for something”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JNPQOTAUJH27DGPG4CMIG3D6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050450},"content":"“Ireland in the ‘80s was in ways a theocracy. It was controlled. All the stuff that came out later, the ugliness. I’m sure we could sense all that. But we didn’t yet have the language to describe what was happening. Or I didn’t. There were priests going around that we’d say, avoid that guy, he’s a bit touchy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SR2JG7MYU5GDNKAG2LDM5EZQZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050451},"content":"Kilroy doesn’t link his later rejection of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/catholic-church/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholicism</a> to his much earlier discovery of Buddhism. Zen practice is Zazen. “Za” means sitting. Though the word “Zen” is bandied about, it just means meditation. Sometimes, “when people come they think, I’m gonna lie on the floor and just chill out! But it is a rigorous practice. It’s quite a discipline.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WINS3CBQVFD65OVRCOXA2XZW64","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050452},"content":"Myozan Ian Kilroy: It is possible to support our Jewish friends and speak out against the unspeakable crimes in Gaza","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"APD2VBH3UZHOFOXZRYRTOFCCCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050453},"content":"Cross-legged or in a chair, “when you sit still, you are not doing. We spend our lives always engaged. We’re trying to improve our house, improve our relationships, get on in work, get on in life, improve our health by exercising. We’re always doing-doing-doing-doing-doing. Zen isn’t self-help, or a journey towards self-improvement. Zen is primarily coming to this present moment. In sitting still, we stop doing. Zen offers this space in your life that is a total counterbalance to all that, so you stop doing and you just sit down. Those diffuse energies out there come back home to rest. By sitting you could say you recharge your body, mind and spirit, nourish your inner resources. And you do this every day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJBUXGYARJHEBCDSNLMFKPGUX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050455},"type":"image"},{"_id":"O6UW57URBZFV7AUQXW6U72P3SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050454},"content":"At Zen Centre they sit for half an hour, three times a week, plus meditate online at home every morning. “We normally sit with others. When you sit on your own, you just go, ah, I’ll go make the dinner. But together, it’s almost like a contract. I’m going to sit with these people for half an hour. Sitting with others encourages you to keep going. This is called community.” They sit facing the wall to avoid distraction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JFHQL7YNRHS3KDKRTESSW3JSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050456},"content":"“When you sit still and enter the present moment, memory comes up, emotion comes up, the future. And your wounds come up, your hurts. You can’t help but work through all this stuff that’s in you.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LI4CE4BBU5GUFGRUVDWH7RBKYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050457},"content":"“There is something that always brings you to practice.” Bereavement, family tragedy, trauma, addiction, serious illness. This is sometimes released, especially at retreats, or in private talks with a teacher. “It’s not like Confession, but you could draw an analogy.” Or the conversation could be, ‘I’m finding it hard. My knees are sore.' We might talk about posture and how to sit.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"33RQQL5ZJFCEJPUJWQNRKESOSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050458},"content":"It doesn’t always involve the Zen teacher or Buddhist priest. “Primarily, it’s your business. That’s the nice thing about Zen. It’s your journey.” What appealed to him first was that it’s a practice, not a dogma. “It was a positive, a discovery. It wasn’t a rejection” of Catholicism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4NGZSTR7DZBCZE6QXGDLFTJTAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050459},"content":"Years later, in his 30s, he formally “defected” from the Catholic Church (before Pope Benedict ditched that process). “It was inauthentic for me to remain in the church because I had gone in a new direction. I thought it was honest to just leave. There was plenty to be angry about.” That anger has now “abated in some ways”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSPF55MOPBCDDBC64WDU3MR6JE","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZDHCMYS2JRBGXOH4GAKDNWVVUA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"IX7VPWZHV5ADPI6ZKOWFKMWBJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050460},"content":"Zen Buddhism is both a religion and a philosophy. It is definitely not self-help. “Mindfulness is secular, and because it’s secular, it’s been commodified. I think mindfulness is a wonderful practice. I’m not denigrating mindfulness in any way. It comes out of the Buddhist tradition. But you have the US military teaching mindfulness to soldiers so they can kill more efficiently. People pay huge money for mindfulness retreats. It’s been commodified, bought and sold. And it’s been divorced from its philosophical and ethical foundations. It’s philosophy-free, religion-free and ethics-free, it’s been totally secularised, and that works in the marketplace very well. But the thing about a tradition like Buddhism, whether you call it a religion or not, is it challenges things like our selfish impulses, our desire to achieve fame and profit, materialism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRR6FGWFTVFCTJDSHSX5PSLBK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050461},"content":"“That’s why community is really important, because you’re like stones polishing each other. In our own families we rub up against each other, and sometimes it’s challenging, but like most things that are challenging, they’re worthwhile in the long run. Family life, marriage is challenging, but it’s precious and worthwhile. Buddhism is not just working on yourself and self-help and mindfulness. It’s concerned with the big issues of life and death, the meaning of life.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GUX3YSVXGVBE7HBROTZETVS73A","additional_properties":{"_id":1740389843809},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"H5R7K4DTNNDBNJNLMGLHQPICTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050462},"content":"Buddhism has three treasures: Buddha, the teacher; Dharma, the teachings; and Sangha, community. That last is crucial, and “it’s surprising to people. People think of Buddhism as something you do on your own, sitting under a tree or something. But for Buddhists, it’s something you do with others, because you need other people. Especially now in our individualistic culture, where everyone is obsessed with their own self. This moves you beyond that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZWSLAIRFJFHERI23C5VVY67MN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050463},"content":"He describes what’s happening during Zazen. “One of the famous lines of Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen in the 13th century, is: to study the Buddha ways is to study the self. So when we’re sitting here in silence, we come to a point of stillness, and inevitably things come up.” The important thing is “you are neither thinking nor not thinking. You’re not following thoughts.” This sounds difficult. “In the way the stomach digests, the mind thinks. Only when you’re dead do you stop thinking. Even when we’re asleep, our consciousness is aware at some level. So you’re not trying to stop thinking, you’re allowing the stream of your thinking to go without getting involved in it. There’s a space beyond your thoughts where you’re allowing your thoughts to run and not chasing them. That space is really important in Buddhism. This is the true self, the self that is not your own thoughts.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOGEBR3JB5B63EYN6TVQKPEQSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050465},"content":"The body too is important. “You’re returning to the body and the breath, being present in your own body. Practice isn’t happening from here up.” He gestures to his neck. “You’re fully inhabiting your body, and you’re not stopping your thoughts. You’re unconcerned.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6NUS47XBRBNBD3FBUK2FMN2IM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050466},"content":"The second Dogen quote: To study the Buddha way is to forget the self. “In meditation, we often forget ourselves as well. Everyone does this when we’re ‘in the zone’. For some it’s gardening, climbing a mountain, running. Sometimes you get it in nature, an autumn day surrounded by trees and you just forget yourself. A blissful state. You’re connected to everything. When you remember yourself again, you go, ‘Oh, wow, that was a moment of liberation’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGNFWPVMUVAS3ITNU6Q4GM3YXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050464},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GDFWWTHR5ZFSXBQ4XAMFQIFP6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050467},"content":"Sitting Zazen, “you’re going from one to the other, fluctuating between thinking what will I make for dinner, to forgetting yourself, then back to the dinner. That’s what it’s like for Zen masters, and that’s what it’s like for Zen novices.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HCJTQFEJZHOVM2UOIWFY5EN5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050468},"content":"Dogen’s third take is about being enlightened by everything in the world, “a kind of mystical understanding of reality. You see it in Catholicism too, in St Teresa or John of the Cross, and in Sufi. Many religious traditions have this idea of unifying with the true, ultimate nature of reality.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SU242UPRAZE4RNMTEFJT7JTXT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050469},"content":"There’s “a blissfulness, peace and joy. Because you get a taste for that you want to keep sitting.” Is he blissed out? He laughs. “No! What I love about the Zen tradition is it doesn’t have gurus. It doesn’t make great claims. It’s very down to earth, realistic. Zen masters, teachers, are human beings.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKFSRRKY35G7BJ64RL7KOCP3RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050470},"content":"That peace was what kept him coming back for more; but in Buddhism you’re not supposed to chase. This seems contradictory to the outsider. “Contradiction is really important in Zen teaching. For example, the contradiction that I’m an independent person and I’m also totally interdependent. In traditional western logic, you can’t have two opposites simultaneously. But reality is full of contradictions, and Zen is encountering that reality. What brings us to practice might be a desire to recapture that bliss, or to work out some trauma. But when we actually sit, we need to give that up, let it dissolve.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3GAWFWBBBGYLEIDBTVQWLXTLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050471},"content":"It strikes me that the same duality, those contradictions, are in Kilroy himself too. He’s the same person he was as a journalist: warm, engaging, smart, humorous. But he’s also a Zen Buddhist priest, learned and concerned with life and death.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TYB6LIF3JDFVBIZ5QNPBHYSWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050473},"content":"Practice is challenging and “very few people stick it”. But Myozan Ian Kilroy took lay ordination, formally becoming a student of the Zen tradition. For years he met his teacher Taigu, a Zen priest in Osaka who wrote his book’s foreword, weekly online, and in person on retreat, discussing texts. “I didn’t choose to become a Buddhist priest. I was asked to become a priest.” That was 2011. “I thought about it, and talked to [his wife] Isabelle, because you need the people in your life to support your journey.” She’s “a French atheist”. He laughs heartily. “She doesn’t practise anything. But she’s incredibly supportive. And she’s a brilliant, very creative <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/the.cooling.rack\" target=\"_self\">baker</a>. When she bakes for our events, it’s a particular hit in Dublin Zen Centre.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFQG56VMIBEWDHMF4Y7LE34274","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050472},"content":"Myozan Ian Kilroy: Why is there a Christian monopoly on chaplaincy in Irish institutions?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"B7YGW3C34FAUJHCKVX5UHZBCS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050474},"content":"Their son Arthur (16) has taken Jukai, the lay ceremony, and Éamonn (14) is “interested in Christianity. Buddhism, no thanks. That’s Dad’s thing.” His parents Margaret and Michael are “devout Catholics”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R4KZU6PBDVHVPOM2KCBUTWHP5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050475},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHQZSBNQ5RDXZALUOE5LCM5RSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050476},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPDYBAY6WRDVVLERVKRNXHQAAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050477},"content":"Kilroy is aware “people are always curious”, about what Buddhism is, and how he got into it. It’s one of the reasons the book exists. “There’s an autobiographical element. It’ll mean something to people who grew up in Ireland.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZOOGGIJZZHENBGTQYDSS3O3MQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050478},"content":"Over the years he didn’t talk a lot about practising Zen. But as a Buddhist priest he is public-facing, involved with Dublin City Interfaith Forum, working on school religious curricula, representing Buddhism at National Days of Commemoration. He has also ordained people, including his community’s first woman priest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GZQ5K557QBB4NKFCPNB6F4TKLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050479},"content":"He stresses “Zen Buddhism is an ancient and profoundly deep tradition, and it offers an opportunity to find a space of peace within your life. We live in a very secular country, and I really value secularity, because in a multi-religious, multi-faith and no-faith society, secularity is the container we need to hold everybody. I am a big proponent of religion not being public policy. But I think we need space for enchantment within public life, to acknowledge the mystery of our lives. Religion is totally cut out of public life, and I understand why it has been, because religion mostly should be a private matter, but an arid secularity needs to open up a little.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NG7MGRORQRG23LPLEH4PYUKTFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740389843828},"content":"<b>Tips for living – Ian Kilroy suggests anyone can use Zen in their lives</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"GRA2NU6AAZDVJAAJMJCDIGTIQM","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"Z7JJYXBH7ZFRRFRHYZS7NG24G4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739897050490},"content":"<i>Do Not Try to Become a Buddha by Myozan Ian Kilroy is published by Wisdom. </i><a href=\"https://wisdomexperience.org/product/do-not-try-to-become-a-buddha/\" target=\"_self\"><i>https://wisdomexperience.org/product/do-not-try-to-become-a-buddha/</i></a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Deirdre Falvey"}},"name":"Deirdre Falvey"}]},"description":{"basic":"Lecturer and journalist Ian Kilroy has published a new book in which he describes his practice as a Zen Buddhist priest, and offers his perspective on the importance of Buddhist teachings "},"display_date":"2025-02-22T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"From national journalism and lecturing in TU Dublin to living as a Buddhist priest","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WQVUWHZY2REEHBNWJ5YGFQCZO4","auth":{"1":"5cd75300b9e86316df9cc5fff4ee7966f6a20358061844565104dd770ba88737"},"focal_point":{"x":4190,"y":1233},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WQVUWHZY2REEHBNWJ5YGFQCZO4.JPG"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2025/02/22/from-journalist-to-lecturer-to-buddhist-priest-everyone-is-obsessed-with-their-own-self/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"PCH6XVCWU5GFJBVR33W5IK3QZQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/20/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"G362KRZWNFGPPM7AB7XYZF657U","additional_properties":{},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"YF64TSZ3WVFINDL7KPXATHBPJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin</b> <b>THE SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE LENT - 09.15 </b><a href=\"\" rel=\"\"><b>EUCHARIST </b></a>– said in the Lady Chapel.<b> 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST</b>- sung by the Lay Vicars Choral -Byrd: Mass for 3 voices,Palestrina: Sicut cervus,Byrd: Ave verum corpus,<a href=\"\" rel=\"\">Preacher: The Very </a>Revd N.J.W. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LCIMKXTR5ABHFILO7FTMJ2KTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"They have been asked whether they think referendums should be held, and, if so, when. And, in that event, they have been asked how they would vote: for the maintenance of the Union or for Irish unity, “don’t know”, or “would not vote”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IU6NQ4DQJ5C6PGEJTEOXF2HIDM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The principle of holding referendums","type":"header"},{"_id":"PWHAKXFCNBFSDJ7HB3YSYNSN7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"In our latest survey from 2024, a majority of people on both sides of the border continue to favour referendums being held at some point. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZBA5J73MJBWDCFKRWR4JGGN2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the South, 79 per cent of people think there should be a referendum, while 10 per cent are opposed. These responses have been stable over time. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CEBBJWLG2FGLFI2W6LJS7L2G2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Introducing the North and South project: A series presenting unbiased information on the unification question","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CJ64LPTHE5GYFK7PFKQ7UFOK34","additional_properties":{},"content":"The vast majority of Northern Catholics (81 per cent) continue to support holding a referendum, with just 6 per cent opposed. These results too are very similar to those reported last year. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WKWA4HZGY5CZFOLCMU3CB3NPUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Among Northern Protestants, however, there has been a notable shift in the balance of opinion: 44 per cent are now in favour of holding a referendum (up from 39 per cent in 2022), 37 per cent are opposed (down from 47 per cent) and 20 per cent say they “don’t know” (up from 14 per cent).","type":"text"},{"_id":"GEEJJS2XGBEERF42ITQSVRWA5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the surveys, respondents were also asked when, if ever, referendums should be held. Among Southerners and Northern Catholics, most favour holding referendums within the next 10 years (78 per cent and 79 per cent respectively). While these figures are very similar to those reported last year, there has been a decline in those favouring imminent referendums. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PXDJMVKDFA5DIL5CGL6SVNUOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Among Southerners, 57 per cent of people think that referendums should be held within the next five years (down from 63 per cent in 2023), along with 55 per cent of Northern Catholics (down from 62 per cent). 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A unity vote would likely pass in the South by a ratio of four to one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZLO4K4ZHBA4HDYHLRVR4YFEZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Over the last three years, about two-thirds of Southerners respond that they would vote in favour of unification (64 per cent in 2024) and one in six affirm they would vote for Northern Ireland to remain in the UK (17 per cent in 2024). One in eight indicate they “don’t know” how they would vote (13 per cent in 2024). The remainder declare that they would not vote (6 per cent in 2024). ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEYPTZI2E5DDRNDL2BVWSPONEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Northern Ireland, however, there have been notable changes in voting intentions in a future referendum.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKZNI6AZTBEM5BCPZCW7E55VXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2022 the ARINS/Irish Times survey found 27 per cent in favour of unity in the North. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/12/02/irish-timesarins-poll-support-for-united-ireland-is-strong-but-debate-on-costs-and-compromises-to-come-first/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/12/02/irish-timesarins-poll-support-for-united-ireland-is-strong-but-debate-on-costs-and-compromises-to-come-first/\">In 2023 the figure was 30 per cent</a>. In our latest 2024 survey 34 per cent indicate support for unity. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"C5CGCRTAF5GDRH4ASEGQLSDKJA","content":"<iframe title=\"Referendum vote intention in Northern \nIreland (%), 2022-2024\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-XthmW\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XthmW/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"466\" data-external=\"1\"></iframe><script type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r<e.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n<\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"TPVQTOXYKZAFJBN25USZVKFPRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"These are just three data points, but they suggest an increasing trend of support. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FMA6ZZRLEFHXFLXQL5Q7YIPE4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Consider the margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The increase between the 2022 estimate and the 2024 estimate is statistically significant. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNFKYFMHG5H2XEOVEI66HQKFAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"As shown in the graph, the estimate of 27 per cent favouring unity in 2022 has confidence intervals (the range of reliability) of between 24 per cent and 30 per cent. By contrast, the 2024 estimate is 34 per cent, with the confidence intervals being between 31 per cent and 37 per cent. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOSQ3L4AZ5CH7PUVL47F54AJC4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish unity quietly becoming more significant for Dáil parties","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MVVDI5WIA5GSRLZ7RPTCYXXXMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The percentage of respondents indicating support for the Union is also lower in 2024 (48 per cent) than it was in 2022 (50 per cent).","type":"text"},{"_id":"7M2RTUUKL5H7JPTZDWI5KHZCMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Since 2022, in the ARINS/Irish Times surveys there has been a marked increase in the proportion of Northern Catholics who affirm that they would vote for unification (up from 55 per cent to 63 per cent) and a decrease in the proportion responding that they “don’t know” (down from 21 per cent to 16 per cent). ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKSPT7MFENEM5PYNXJQMJ5XL3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Among Northern Protestants, more modest changes have occurred between 2022 and 2024. They continue to be overwhelmingly unionist: almost 12 times as many affirm that they would vote for Northern Ireland to remain in the UK (82 per cent) rather than to unify with the Republic of Ireland (7 per cent). They are also somewhat less likely to be undecided (down from 13 per cent to 9 per cent).","type":"text"},{"_id":"MF3Y3WATKJARVC6Z2QC736AMWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"We also asked respondents if referendums were held how they would react to the two possible results. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRP3XISGTZFVBGFCLFZTCMJOEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"When asked to consider an Irish unity outcome, an interesting trend appears to be developing among Protestants in Northern Ireland. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMOZLMGSRNH5VHVCRMRC3QBQKI","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"5XGVNRGHKVBVTFKOWYYOFDK6KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the first ARINS/Irish Times survey in 2022, one in three (32 per cent) of Northern Protestants indicated that they would find an Irish unification outcome “almost impossible to accept”. That response declined to just under one in four (23 per cent) in 2023. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"POSE6VJO7NF2LA5JYOPIZJP44Q","content":"<iframe title=\"How would you react if the referendum vote was pro-Irish unity? \" aria-label=\"Stacked Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-dlDQO\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/dlDQO/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"235\" data-external=\"1\"></iframe><script type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r<e.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n<\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"3SI4FP3IRVHKLMWLIGFJG37IF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The latest survey from 2024 shows a further decline. One in five (20 per cent) of Northern Protestants now say they would find referendum outcomes in favour of Irish unification almost impossible to accept. A fall from one third to one fifth over three years is significant by anyone’s reckoning. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7SKLPWG7JCMZL7QAT7XYDABF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"For Northern Protestants, the most common reaction to a win for Irish unity in a referendum is to respond that they “would not be happy but could live with it” (48 per cent).","type":"text"},{"_id":"WKAM57L2ZRGFLLQR2V4LHY5D5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"But an increasing number say they would react positively rather than begrudgingly. In 2024, nearly three in 10 Protestants in Northern Ireland (29 per cent) declared that they would “happily accept” referendums endorsing Irish unity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FO5N24Z5DBBRXDFUNGFHKQ7YEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The continued salience of the debate about Northern Ireland’s future status, and the repercussion of the Brexit controversies, have perhaps made the possibility of Irish unification less abstract, and possibly that has reduced Northern Protestants’ fears of change, and contributed to their expression of greater consent were they to lose a future referendum. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLQI73QHRVBZ7FY5237ULWGDZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is also possible, however, that some of them are more confident of winning a referendum in favour of the Union and are therefore less worried about losing. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFSSJJS5AZFNTGPM6G6OGZOBSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Signs that ‘losers’ consent’ among Protestants for Irish unity is increasing in Northern Ireland","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VRAIHCVHCNG5PMLT5MKKBHBTBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Despite the restoration of powersharing government in Northern Ireland in early 2024, what is emphatically clear is that alternatives to the status quo are still being contemplated. And the alternative of Irish unity is steadily becoming less intensely unacceptable for some and more acceptable for others.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIZDP224T5HEJE2XOHKIX4J3OU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Overall, perhaps our most notable finding in our three years of surveys so far is an average annual increase in the pro-unity position in Northern Ireland of three-and-a-half percentage points, and a two-percentage point decline of support for the Union over the same period. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATY4MHFNZVGN5NV6F5AEKPCERY","additional_properties":{},"content":"If this pattern were to continue over the next few years, then the competition between the Union and Irish unity would be neck and neck by 2027; and, on the same extrapolation, the pro-unity side would be four points ahead in 2028. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BSBMRJIRKJFMPF3E4ASOR2LPAY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Extrapolating from just three years of data, however, must be accompanied with major caveats. A linear trend may not be the most plausible deduction. We must await the next rounds of the surveys to see whether trendless fluctuation describes the story better. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FNMMTSWKNGI3EC2U7GRDXZKTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is also possible that the apparent pro-unity trend may alter its pace, downward or upward. Perhaps the most important trend of all will be whether the proportion of “don’t knows” continues to fall in future surveys as it has over the three held so far. 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Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"72DBOCK2ORF6BH5I35ZL5X6UNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1735833809098},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"3OE3HHJNWRAIPE6BRUOWYNZJRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1735833809099},"content":"<b>Quaker Meetings in Ireland </b>Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\" target=\"_blank\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, January 4th, 2025"},"display_date":"2025-01-03T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2025/01/03/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"KMGRIUK3EVDLVAXYPVM4ZP4M2Q","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":360,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-h0e8gjgjaqe0egb7.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/2ecf41c0-7b7e-44ee-8f11-7da23c7d180b/versions/1734951733/media/e061b2611044552f19b78b4fcfaa97c0_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/12/29/the-catholic-churchs-jubilee-year-2025-is-a-time-of-celebration-an-expression-of-praise-to-god/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VGPHAYVQUFFWTJWD4WLDUTDYAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715971},"content":"On occasion, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/catholic-church/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Church</a> can be unfairly pilloried as a faith group that demands of its adherents to simply “pay, pray and obey”. Such a dour and cruel comment, as well as being laden with cynicism, ignores the reality of the beauty of the Church, and that she offers so much to all who are part of her life and mission, generation after generation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKGUOXRNVJDB3NFOAO7K6BIJYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715972},"content":"This joy that we hold for the gospel manifests in the universal Church every 25 years in a worldwide celebration where we come together to rejoice in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/religion-beliefs/\" target=\"_blank\">Christianity</a>. This year-long initiative is referred to as a “Jubilee Year”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBRKBGTBNNHZ5NWSQCZ5UJGLRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715973},"content":"Jubilee 2025 will begin in a few days’ time on the theme conferred by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis</a>: “Pilgrims of Hope”/”Spes non Confundit – Hope Does Not Disappoint” (Romans 5:5). Each Jubilee at its core commemorates and celebrates the great event of the birth of Jesus Christ, and the 2025 theme of hope encourages each of us to be a messenger of hope in our very troubled world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTY42ET5AZBHJO3MP4WV2QIKLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715974},"content":"Everyone is invited to participate in this special year of faith through prayer, by supporting liturgies and events locally in dioceses, and/or in Rome for the global celebrations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFPUHQWHEFBKFKS3ACDVHW7CEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715975},"content":"The concept of jubilee has deep roots in our biblical tradition. It is a time of giving thanks for the providence of the Lord and the fruits of the harvest. Jubilee is a time of celebration, a time of singing, sounding of trumpets, an expression of praise to God. It is a time of looking back in gratitude and anticipation of more from a God who is close to us and provides through all seasons.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AL2WHIYWJFDKLDJEYACY4DFM5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"IPSSDLYMURBQHMG3UZZVCRIP2Y"},"content":"Pope reprimands Vatican staff for gossiping, calling it ‘an evil that destroys social life’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"M23KT5NC75D2RF6MOTW7554OYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715976},"content":"Jubilee is associated with rest, relaxation, reviving the spirit, a period of taking stock and planning ahead with renewed resources, rejuvenated by that celebratory time of sabbatical. It is a special time to avail of what the Church calls a plenary indulgence, an assurance of grace or favour from the Lord in response to that faith assent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2FH6FWTZZBMJCDCUQCOCLBQHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715977},"content":"So why will Jubilee 2025 be the most significant for humanity of all of the jubilee years held to date?","type":"text"},{"_id":"WU3TZVUOIJEHBCN4J5AZMULWQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715978},"content":"Well, look at the world around us at this time, at home and abroad. Jubilee is a time associated with mercy and forgiveness. It is a time of amnesty, forgetting past wrongs, wiping the slate clean, giving those in debt a second chance, a time to start afresh. So many of our neighbours deserve such mercy in 2025.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4FUHD3IKRBOBAMFCA4KSKCPG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715979},"content":"Jubilee is also a time of pilgrimage. As “pilgrims of hope” we embark on ritual and real journeys to sacred places in search of that hope that we long for. For Jubilee Year 2025, each diocese in Ireland will nominate a local pilgrimage site, and the bishops of Ireland have designated the following three as national pilgrimage sites: Our Lady’s Shrine, Knock, Co Mayo; Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo; and St Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, Co Donegal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRQJ53IBKFCXRJ6NEO3FQNUHVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715980},"content":"So, how can we put our best foot forward and prepare for Jubilee 2025? In the last few weeks Pope Francis has published a book on the theme pilgrims of hope called Hope is A Light in The Night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LZJDVX3ZNH3LCEHDEFN3PRQHE","additional_properties":{"_id":"EBEIEDIEX5B2NPTGW4ATCKR6I4"},"content":"In times of war, ‘we have a duty to hope, as without hope all is lost’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OMA3L3ZWMJHSHCWXX7JMPHEP4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715981},"content":"Hope, of course, is the second of the three theological virtues, the others being faith and love. The book contains a series of excerpts from homilies and speeches of Pope Francis on the theme of hope.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QER65TVDHNGLBHB6NLFB3DSCFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715982},"content":"Helpfully, the pontiff situates the need for hope in the challenging world in which we live, with so much conflict, darkness and sadness – the antithesis to hope, a world of what he calls “gloomy discouragement and ill-concealed cynicism”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BW7BXSM4FRBS3MJHZGCSCRN65U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715983},"content":"Hope, he tells us, is both a gift and task for every Christian. It is more than what the secular world might wish for, an ideal or a sense of optimism, eg; hoping for fine weather or success in passing an exam. It is very real, concrete and present to us because it has been infused into our soul at Baptism, gifting us the pathway to eternal salvation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5BDQGEDOMJD2DMOH7HUXAHIJPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715984},"content":"Pope Francis says: “To hope, then, is to welcome this gift that God offers us every day. To hope is to savour the wonder of being loved, sought, desired by a God who has not shut Himself away in His impenetrable heavens but has made Himself flesh and blood, history and days, to share our lot.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBPOFSTH2FFNRA7EP4XNBQ6ULY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715985},"content":"I encourage everyone to read this inspiring publication, especially at this time of volatility for humanity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T5QCPQJY2RDKDP7DBCB7L47WIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715986},"content":"Finally, Jubilee 2025 will be a time of transition. This movement from old to new is captured symbolically with the ritual of opening of “Holy Doors”. Holy doors are liminal spaces in sacred spaces; cathedrals, basilicas, places of pilgrimage. In continuity with that great tradition, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, and every diocese in Ireland and around the world is encouraged to launch their own Jubilee of Hope this Sunday, December 29th, inaugurating the great year of Hope.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SIB2RIXU6NHGNOYWQ5GOL77N3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715987},"content":"The purpose of Jubilee Year 2025 is to allow pilgrims to share our faith as well as opportunities for reconciliation, indulgences, prayer and reception of the sacraments. All of these activities will strengthen our personal relationship with Jesus Christ and enrich our faith journey.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IHTUEL66BEJLOVMLT66DKBVA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734715715988},"content":"<i>Dr Fintan Monahan is bishop of Killaloe and the Irish bishops’ delegate for Jubilee 2025</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Dr Fintan Monahan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: Pope Francis situates the need for hope in the challenging world of ‘gloomy discouragement and ill-concealed cynicism’"},"display_date":"2024-12-29T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year 2025 is a time of celebration, an expression of praise to God","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JUOBZ25BPLRAU42XW6GHT7VSDQ","auth":{"1":"f7fab58e270eaeda8ffdf4d3203830e5e5b2eb8ac9ed42e28a342ab92b2ff4b6"},"focal_point":{"x":2526,"y":681},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JUOBZ25BPLRAU42XW6GHT7VSDQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/12/29/the-catholic-churchs-jubilee-year-2025-is-a-time-of-celebration-an-expression-of-praise-to-god/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"OTKCDBCHF5FOLBB5VULWVVBNQM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":181,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-h0e8gjgjaqe0egb7.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7ebb0039-ea2d-4669-8031-dc53af6b81f6/versions/1734006583/media/856c7bbab5e998369eb9195fc60dbe71_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/books/review/2024/12/28/monasticism-in-ireland-ad-900-1250-by-edel-bhreathnach-a-valuable-contribution-to-the-history-of-the-irish-church/","content_elements":[{"_id":"NYCIKWRIB5HBVBGLMQDZRHAGHY","additional_properties":{"_id":"DV3TVKNKFNGEPFIPJBR2O4KEKA"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"review-highlights-58703","url":"/"},"subtype":"review_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"XRELGQM6H5BAJN6NUJMZDMNQH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581621},"content":"This scholarly work is a valuable contribution to the overall history of monasticism in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland</a> as it explores “the hidden years” of that tradition, following its much vaunted “golden age” when, as claimed, “the Irish saved civilisation”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBIYSAXQDVH4FFSK6DFTCXA52I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581622},"content":"As the author puts it: “It’s as if monasticism in Ireland flourished during the sixth and seventh centuries and then in its pristine state returned to Britain and the Continent, leaving a static form of monasticism, diminished by increasing secularisation, to take root in the great monasteries of Ireland.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QVXGMMEYBEEFF5SVROFLXWTLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581623},"content":"Seeing Ireland’s monasticism “as somewhat exotic and not part of the normalised ‘reformed’ monasticism of elsewhere by the eleventh century” was “to underestimate the complexity of monasticism in western Christendom between 900 and 1250”, she writes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MFVA57WJWJCKJARMTNJIOQC47A","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581624},"content":"Through nine chapters in this book she explores how this “hidden” element in the history of Irish monasticism came about, and sets about righting that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVIPRISLSFEMBEZV4DWFTZUO24","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581625},"content":"Interestingly, she observes how the view of early Irish monasticism as “a ‘Celtic’ deviation” arose from more recent, post-Reformation, scholarship which was influenced by the politics of historiography from the 17th century onwards. It became “entangled in the debates of confessional historians, Catholic and Protestant, who sought to appropriate the early Irish church for their own political and religious motivations”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNM3IVEE7RFU7HFB5IXOJZZUDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581626},"content":"This continued “through the centuries, but especially with the rise of Catholic nationalism during the nineteenth” which “adopted many material elements of early Irish monasticism – the high cross and round tower being the most evident – as symbols of ancient roots”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SA6V5SNUJBGTTB6GH6LHHPXHTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581627},"content":"In more recent times, there had been “serious interrogation of this narrative”, she says, even as that too “tended to concentrate on the early monastic period and the twelfth century”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LWK7WNL46FDC7DTLFDVISI6G3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581628},"content":"In the author’s view, a reason why monasticism in Ireland “has been regarded as different” may be to do with sources. 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The life of Irish woman Edel Quinn was a miracle","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5YPQZ32TQBAK3CU3AFRJTMD45Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581630},"content":"As controversially, she suggests, that, “in their enthusiasm to balance the gender narrative, scholars have overestimated the number of female religious houses in medieval Ireland, often due to mis-interpretation of the sources and their given content”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWBC6C6ZSZEQ5KBWX54OYTKQUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734004581631},"content":"For her own part and, “rather than dividing the narrative between female and male religious”, she has attempted “to include women in the greater narrative of medieval Irish monasticism in the circumstances of their own society”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Patsy McGarry"}},"name":"Patsy McGarry"}]},"description":{"basic":"A scholarly work that seeks to deepen our understanding of Irish monasticism and its influence on church traditions"},"display_date":"2024-12-28T00:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Monasticism in Ireland: AD 900-1250 by Edel Bhreathnach – A valuable contribution to the history of the Irish church","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"CRJJYV5KVFM3RMFYLOS5VUBLFY","auth":{"1":"61d468258df0d54b54e89b1cedfb8e0ac19829784c0a71b8a9db0a695dd8ff72"},"focal_point":{"x":3995,"y":1895},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/CRJJYV5KVFM3RMFYLOS5VUBLFY.jpg"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Books"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/books/review/2024/12/28/monasticism-in-ireland-ad-900-1250-by-edel-bhreathnach-a-valuable-contribution-to-the-history-of-the-irish-church/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/books","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Books"}}}},{"_id":"RSBFP5JJERDS7GFLLP7C3WKEJM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":358,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-h0e8gjgjaqe0egb7.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ff0f665d-659f-43ff-b828-dc4687646dd5/versions/1734888197/media/d54abe65653b0cc9ee840f040cb3f214_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/12/25/on-christmas-day-what-family-and-friends-believe-about-christ-will-be-irrelevant/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4X42EJP3CBEO3JCSRAJ54NCX2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587447},"content":"I am full of contradictions. I love to celebrate <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/christmas/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas</a>. I am a traditionalist. I dislike it when people say Happy Holidays, write “Xmas” or refer to St Stephen’s Day as Boxing Day. And yet I hardly think of Christ. I don’t think that Jesus was the son of God. I don’t believe in a personal God who intervenes in this world. And, yet, I think I am as religious as the next person.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNFDODIKMFEZ5DBQB4RD5AKDYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587448},"content":"For me, what makes Christmas religious, and what makes thousands of similar festivals around the world religious, is that regardless of their specific beliefs, people come together to celebrate the mystery and beauty of life. Religion begins with mystery and ritual.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4AIQ4L6AZGWZMZ5BHICAKKVAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587449},"content":"Like many others, I have no idea why we are here. Why there is something rather than nothing? How, after billions of years, has life on earth come to be the way it is? Despite what seems like enormous progress, I don’t think science will ever answer these questions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U4DEHH4HCVEYFMK7EIDV6PSUUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587450},"content":"Celebrating the mystery and beauty of life is part and parcel of being human. Ever since we became self-conscious, we have wondered about the meaning of life and what it is to live a good life. But whatever the answer, we seem to have realised that our survival depends on us coming together.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IX4IVQV4AVBZNN3ZCLA3RRUEHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587451},"content":"We need to create and sustain a collective consciousness. We do this through language and symbols, by engaging in rituals, through music, art, praying, chanting and dancing. This, for me, is the core of being religious. It is what we do at Christmas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVIKJCSY45HZZOV3GBWM5ZEK6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"T5MTJSDXAJHZVB5KIQXSLZBGDA"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZVK52KAZF5EEHACOIHPENEKH7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587452},"content":"Midwinter festivals seem to have always played a role in human society. This began to change around 3,000 years ago. What was local, flexible and dynamic became institutionalised. A cadre of priests and theologians began to emerge. They gave definitive answers to the meaning of life and defined how to live a good life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QJTTUFORNDKPLJV3E5X765SDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587453},"content":"But the transition to institutionalisation was not smooth. In Ancient Judea, the field was volatile. Prophets emerged who resisted and challenged the new institutional regimes. Jesus was one of these. His success was meteoric. But over the next 2,000 years, his teachings and exemplary lifestyle became institutionalised into what is now the most rigid, hierarchical regime of religion ever developed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEM45CO5MBG6VET2HOCGLFXFHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587454},"content":"In Ireland, the institutionalisation of religion reached its zenith in the first half of the last century. During the last 200 years, being religious became highly orthodox and legalistic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2RJHXRKYZHR3ETYZ3LUWTDJDU","additional_properties":{"_id":"N7PWCT77XRFANNTHON3W2464PA"},"content":"Hugs, tears and joy at the airport as the Dublin of Christmas returns comes to life","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VW4ITGP3KVHOVAHSYOWPNZB7RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587455},"content":"However, in the last 50 years, all that was solid about the Church has begun to melt into air. Where once there was orthodoxy and certainty, there is now doubt and ambiguity. There is no longer a need to obey and believe. And so now, while Christ may no longer be central to Christmas for many, numerous rituals that brought people together over the years have survived.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGNYG4S3D5GRTKA7VIM347BWLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587456},"content":"Of course, Christmas has become commercialised and, in many respects, profane. It is an inevitable consequence of living in a capitalist society. It has become hedonistic. If January is about self-control, Christmas is about letting go.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHEITVNHOBEZPCUKJ46YQJBZCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"4H6UDI2D4VGDBFGWYIKUNNQ2DE"},"content":"‘Christmas in Dublin remains something unmatched in my heart’: readers on what’s best about coming home for Christmas","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"EXVG5U23XVD6NGG7DT5WIQQLIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587457},"content":"But I think there is something else going on. I think Christmas is about taking time out, about recognising that whatever meaning there is to life, it does not come from money, power and control. It comes through each other. In a cosmopolitan society, we cannot come together if we are dogmatic. We need to be humble, to accept our ignorance about the meaning of life. We need to be compassionate and accepting of each other and our differences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEO3LKXTAJDWNIZHT5OOCTBXKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587459},"content":"And, so, on Christmas Day, when people gather with family and friends, what they believe about Christ will largely be irrelevant. They will try to be virtuous, to love each other and to reach out to those who are poor, vulnerable and excluded. They will, in effect, try to be good Christians without mentioning Christ.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52V4QQLU6JGGXC3PGZEHQID2XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587460},"content":"If Christmas is about regenerating a sense of belonging, of collective consciousness, it is also about mystery and magic. We pass on a belief in Santa to our children. It is a recognition of how little we know about the world in which we live. It is as awesome as it is unpredictable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P34DJZ7DGVELRF34Z3DAACHCNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587461},"content":"We live in hope. My hope is that the sense of belonging to a cosmic whole of which we are just an infinitesimal part will help us realise that it is collective and not individual salvation that is central to the survival of our species.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JRLV6PTJGZADHBBWFUBFUKIBJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587462},"content":"The religious challenge in this era of human domination – the Anthropocene age – is to find ways of transcending the colonisation of our souls by the market and the media. We need to be mindful and reverential not just towards each other, but to other species. One wonders if it is possible for a new prophet to emerge and lead us to ecological salvation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UXCTLBSUNDYZBQEKQZ7IQNIVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734371587463},"content":"<i>Tom Inglis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin and author of Unbecoming Catholic: Being Religious in Contemporary Ireland which will be published by Peter Lang in Spring, 2025.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Tom Inglis"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: What makes Christmas religious is that regardless of their specific beliefs, people come together to celebrate the mystery and beauty of life"},"display_date":"2024-12-25T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"On Christmas Day, what family and friends believe about Christ will be irrelevant","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"T2CKOKMOTRCXBM2U2GKFUNQ74I","auth":{"1":"e8f1f8fbdce1aaadd4c1f8ac8a5f531cddf5d175ca0fcb0800ed485be38fe04f"},"focal_point":{"x":2225,"y":1318},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/T2CKOKMOTRCXBM2U2GKFUNQ74I.JPG"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/12/25/on-christmas-day-what-family-and-friends-believe-about-christ-will-be-irrelevant/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"5A6MYYNM5JE4NBMMJ3J3ICN3S4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":393,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-h0e8gjgjaqe0egb7.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7cda8b52-b38c-4325-a83c-a686bf3eebe0/versions/1734895545/media/a4b872e9e8afbed31663f96438be4dae_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/2024/12/26/whither-now-for-our-declining-churches-younger-clergy-reflect-on-a-brighter-future/","content_elements":[{"_id":"Y6BDIBQYVRAUTLK4CRXD6RBYYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242253},"content":"Ireland’s youngest Catholic bishop, Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin Paul Dempsey (53), believes “something new is emerging” in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/catholic-church/\" target=\"_blank\">Church</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NN7BCOOZKRAWRLHZQGU4GS4EAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242254},"content":"He doesn’t know what it is yet but believes it will be “a far more real and exciting time” to be part of the church than 50 years ago when “everything was very much black and white and staid”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZLD7B2QBZAYXHGUNN4TZ55QUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242255},"content":"He thinks it will be a “smaller church”, maybe modelled on basic, small Christian communities, back to where it “should have been always ... on the margins”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KFUKV4LBCFEVZJ2WBNLQQNHDRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242256},"content":"He says the gospel offered “a very radical vision of the way life can be lived” and that the church’s social teaching is “very, very radical” but that “unfortunately, because of the sad chapter of the abuse, maybe that voice is not heard at the moment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2KQSZDKKC5C7DPYHUSQCYHNH7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242257},"content":"“Our moral authority has been damaged but, as we work our way through that and hopefully gain a bit more credibility as we go forward, I think that voice will be very important in society,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YULSIZKIBHCRPZXRHOU4LI3IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242258},"content":"Dublin may have “huge challenges” but “there are great things happening”. Immigration is bringing “so many from Brazil, from India, the Philippines, African nations. Catholic people, who are bringing great new life and energy into so many parishes”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZNHYBY4QINBE5EVQ56TCPUQPOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242259},"content":"He came “from a family of emigrants” – “I’m the youngest and my brother and two sisters emigrated to the US in the 1980s, when things were bad here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EAZQEO2FONAZHG3U6ZL77ROYW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242260},"content":"They were there “as ‘illegal aliens’ and we expected that they would be welcomed in the US. They eventually got the Morrison Visa and their Green Card, but they went for years not being able to come home. I saw the heartbreak in my own mother and my father.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HGGYVHSVCFGG5I6RTF2OIXNOJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242261},"content":"He said many Irish people expected a welcome when they emigrated and that Irish people should now welcome immigrants too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY6YU3OJRZCDTHUUPGCYUQSAGU","additional_properties":{"_id":"SNKULJFIINBN3F4PUHIGRUHHHQ"},"content":"Churches carry huge crosses as they try to move on from mistakes of past","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JGU6XIIVOVB5PPCKNKRHWRIATE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242262},"content":"“We have a responsibility if people are from war-torn situations and are traumatised. We need to provide dignified facilities for people if we are welcoming them in. Putting them into tents is not good enough, the Government needs to step up on that one,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WINSL3WCDRBHZGJY3Y2XQTRKMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242263},"content":"Since being appointed a bishop in January 2020, he misses parish life “terribly”. He wasn’t expecting to be appointed a bishop, nor did he want it. He was given some time to think about it, and following a week of sleepless nights, he accepted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZAUZJ7BBT5CCZK2SYLWBGKBS6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242264},"content":"In Dublin since April last, he said, “What I love about the role of auxiliary is that it is a very pastoral role.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOSQBNEIWZHXZI7S4GNTXZR6T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242265},"content":"“I’ve more time to be visiting parishes, schools. That gives me great scope and that’s what I was ordained for in the first place, to be pastoral. 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In the parish “we meet people where they’re at, so we’re putting on afternoon services on Sundays, building community”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LHVKYCQ4RDOZOAHRF2A6HVALA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242270},"content":"At harvest time, Christmas and Easter, “we run these trails, utilising our beautiful [church] grounds, as an outreach event”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KUOLACECWRHR3AC7B66VK5E2TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242271},"content":"Earlier this month their ‘Nativity Express Christmas Trail’ took place, involving “a real train (hired and paid for by donation) and real sheep, for children and young families. We went back in time to meet the early prophets, then back to the train again to be taken to the Nativity story.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"73KTNYITPZEPHN7JDIADQDYSSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242273},"content":"The church “was turned into Bethlehem. 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They were “from the wider community”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OSUD52APS5FAXEP3DKV63JML2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242277},"content":"“Among younger lay people there’s an open-mindedness and positive attitude towards the church, despite the awful things perpetrated by the churches” in the past, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXBSCMHSFBBTJNIOJ7J3JXNKAY","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZPHXLANBUJBZVK6TISBAUPKQVA"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-84416","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LHQN4PB4CVG2DBMOQVT5A5KTJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242278},"content":"“Ultimately we have the greatest story ever told” and the challenge was how to communicate that story. “It’s about communication, to people today, tomorrow,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G654MFOGRJBDTM7QT2SECUUBWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242279},"content":"He believes “this Christian Ireland thing is a myth. There’s a lot of people, 40 and under, who didn’t grow up in a church, don’t have a religious affiliation, wouldn’t actually know the story of the Bible. We need to be able to accommodate, meet people where they’re at,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QARDKCKO6ZAVFPSCLJVFH6Q3LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242280},"content":"He described as a “wonderful phrase” – and a reminder – that “people don’t care how much we know until they know how much we care”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5KKZKKAKJEC7PFARRDKC5AINE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242281},"content":"Theirs is an “open, very, very welcoming parish. Word spreads”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KGYM3HBZF5GTNNC5OVAI5RPTAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242282},"content":"It helps that he is a young rector with a young family. He and his wife Cherith have two children, Marcus (5) and Felicity (3). “Cherith came up with the idea of the trails.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZFURCICBJEGVIVDM3PSTTARMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242284},"content":"It was all about “how to be relevant to people in our context today, where they can engage and also have some fun. Christianity is not meant to be dour and miserable.” It is “about joy and hope, what we aim to encapsulate”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBFS6FLHSJFP7CQVOBXZ3PNA5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734800242285},"content":"His goal in Rathmichael “is to create church that, if I was a lay person working in a nine-to-five job, I would want to go to on a Sunday”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Patsy McGarry"}},"name":"Patsy McGarry"}]},"description":{"basic":"Exciting times are ahead for Christian communities, based on joy, hope, energy and finding context and relevance in contemporary society"},"display_date":"2024-12-24T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Where to now for our declining churches? 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Mullen, <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of Rathmichael. 15.15 NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS - sung by the Cathedral Choir- music by Ledger, Howells, Rutter, Dines, and Oades. CHRISTMAS EVE- 16.00 NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS - sung by the Cathedral Choir- music by Ledger, Howells, Rutter, Dines, and Oades, (by ticket only) broadcast live on RTE Radio 1. CHRISTMAS DAY - 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Cathedral Choir Hadyn: Little Organ Mass, arr. Nicholson: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, Rutter: Shepherds Pipe Carol, Rutter: Candlelight Carol, Preacher: The Very Revd W.W. Morton, <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., M.A., Ph.D., M.Mus., D.Litt., Dean Ordinary. CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 on Monday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 on Friday and Saturday. EVENING PRAYER at 17.30 on Friday. 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Tuesday 24th December 6 p.m. Christmas Service of Holy Communion; 11.30 p.m. Christmas Service of Holy Communion. Wednesday 25th December 8.30 a.m. Christmas Service of Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Christmas Service of Holy Communion. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"C3JP3ASD2RH2DBO4OW54FULV2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734614167999},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), the Fourth Sunday of Advent. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church. Christmas Day, 10.00 Festal Eucharist.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHDDQHC7MVC2XGZGOCCYMZX2MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734614168000},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Parish Carols. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard. Christmas Day, 10.00 Festal Eucharist.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIS5274WABDJZO3VPIYAJFCOK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734614168001},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 22nd December - The Fourth Sunday of Advent - 10.30am Morning Prayer. 5pm Carols by Candlelight. Christmas Eve - 3pm Blessing of the Crib (a service for children and families) and 11pm The First Eucharist of Christmas. Christmas Day - 9am Holy Communion 1, 10.30am Family Holy Communion. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YVVN25CDZE3TI4X5JZK3XA4F4","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"THYPIS24OVBTLLLLWLCFPNIZSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIP52ZN4INA5PMVIQGKAICHPDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZPWL3VLXJZEQDICZGFDD67WDUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVRJ7A5DBNHCXAVI2M5APDBLO4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin </b>December 22nd 11am Children’s Nativity Service. Dec 24th 7pm Christmas Eve Service Dec 25th 10am Christmas Day Service The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dun Laoghaire. Our Services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNWTBVI7SZE43KU556GF7D73PI","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"BKWQVFV33JD2FEIAFUIXTHDKCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday December 21st, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-12-20T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/20/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"3ILIYK7PLBGXRK3Q4UZHRHNNSM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":175,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-h0e8gjgjaqe0egb7.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/d5201cde-5c90-4acd-b233-b562bd9981d2/versions/1734383553/media/dff01c3a892490eb9fcf800c970d052c_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/education/2024/12/16/lucan-school-to-review-ethos-statement-over-message-telling-parents-students-must-attend-all-religious-ceremonies/","content_elements":[{"_id":"V6SU6HM2NVHNHMAR7LUCOAUUSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403442},"content":"A <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin </a>school has said it will review aspects of its ethos statement following a message circulated to parents noting all pupils are required to attend religious ceremonies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RD4XPS7RJVB2TLXRWVNET4TDVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403443},"content":"The instruction was issued via the Aladdin messaging app by St Andrew’s National School in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/lucan/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucan</a>, Co Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NPRFH2XGJAHVN7FHUDTFDXPUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403444},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/education-equality/\" target=\"_blank\">Education Equality</a>, an organisation campaigning for “equality” in the provision of education regardless of a pupil’s religion, said the message breached children’s constitutional rights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CCISO262BGFDHHYGESDM2DAW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403445},"content":"An excerpt from the school’s broader ethos statement, the message said pupils were required to participate in all subject areas and attend all school religious ceremonies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT6FTCLUAVCQNAPOJIPSLSLF6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403446},"content":"“As part of the culture of this school children are informed about Santa Claus, Halloween and the expectation that surrounds this. We do not permit any other view within school.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"47I7FOBUFZA6ZHAGPFJDGZEISI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403447},"content":"St Andrew’s is under <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/church-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of Ireland</a> patronage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZYNNWGEQZD65EVNQT7D6YNKKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403448},"content":"In a statement, Robert Grier, chair of the board of management, said the school noted the concerns raised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VY54JSAVXVHVZEILC2YEQXDDRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403449},"content":"“The message in question contains a quotation from the school’s ethos statement. The ethos statement will be reviewed in full by the board of management of the school at its next board meeting. We have no further comment to make at this time.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2FQAHHLRZAEPNQL7Z63A6FCN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403450},"content":"The school’s ethos statement also notes that it is part of the local church community with strong links to the parish church in Lucan village.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNI7GNKRZJEY7FUOSCWCHFFQRY","additional_properties":{"_id":"J5AWJSNQKBGMJA2M7HQDLQO4XU"},"content":"We need a Donogh O’Malley-style figure to deliver on the promise of a reformed Leaving Cert","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SJO6KR3A4BDUDL2MRNIN4EWLDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734375403451},"content":"“We teach the primary curriculum including religious education. 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Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWULQELU5ZARVMQZ6LWZB5LHDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZMZWPQUUFGUFNLLRNHZJYUZQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. 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Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"SA26NNUDIRACVKVS3X3WHV6NOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733393111825},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"2NGP5GGZZJGPBG3A2YGESHBXWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733393111826},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDVDCCOQVVCANMEGV4UBBD2OJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFR73RRTUZCULNEO7TJIXD7ZAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733393111827},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"TSNEZOWKPNDUHH3G7NRXCQRIYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1733393111828},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\" target=\"_blank\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning 7th December, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-12-06T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/12/06/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"F2DC6OXI5RCKNA5IEGISF7WX5M","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":424,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/18c1bc8b-4a9a-4078-8331-2e758be0cc90/versions/1732116367/media/370d8056801382b39385b58edf94607a_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/books/review/2024/12/02/southern-irish-protestants-by-ian-dalton-a-work-of-great-originality-and-scholarship/","content_elements":[{"_id":"7DEF5PV4XJE7VFQZNS3QW274DU","additional_properties":{"_id":"SORD2CEWPBC3XDEG7V6ZHRWYLY"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"review-highlights-74570","url":"/"},"subtype":"review_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6SS2C7YDYBC2BLBNL5SNKIBU2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720615},"content":"This is a deeply engaging, original and distinctive work, a learned mixture of modern Irish history, literary criticism and social comment, with some excursions into theology and dogmatics: it offers some important (if understated) contemporary resonances. The range is appropriate because the work’s author – Ian d’Alton – has for long combined careers as a prize-winning scholar and a distinguished public servant, who served in the Department of Finance and eventually came to head the Irish Housing Finance Agency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSNTGCN3LZA6DLSNJXBF7DB4TQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720616},"content":"D’Alton is also a deeply reflective Cork (and Dublin) Protestant, for whom history-writing is partly about the exploration and conceptualisation of “his” community as well as self-understanding. Indeed, these diverse essays and investigations are bound together by the overarching theme of southern Protestantism; they are topped and tailed by a mix of autobiographical reflection and appreciation, the latter undertaken by some of the author’s scholarly friends.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDGSI6GCXJFWNAYHUUU6KVU6LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720617},"content":"In different hands this overall endeavour might have become bogged down in antiquarian or chauvinist mires, but d’Alton is too judicious and self-aware to succumb in these ways. As an accomplished historian, he can connect his particular concerns, often focused on Cork Protestantism, with wider debates and frameworks; as someone secure in his own identity, he can rise above any religious or political defensiveness to dwell on the bleaker aspects of his community (its occasional anti-Catholicism, for example). Jacques Lacan and Carl Jung rub shoulders in this collection with local worthies such as the Rev Ralph Harvey, scourge of Cork Grammar School in the Edwardian era, or Lady Mary Aldworth, stalwart of the Cork Primrose League.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G2GG6Y3QNBDVXJWA72NTINQLMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720618},"content":"Modern Irish historians have long recognised d’Alton as one of a pioneering group of researchers (Patrick Buckland was another) who opened up the serious study of southern Irish Protestantism and unionism in the 1970s. Those for whom d’Alton’s doctoral monograph, Protestant Society and Politics in Cork, 1812-44 (1980) was a revelation in an otherwise apparently well-mapped historiographical landscape will not be disappointed by this new work. While there is much on the Big House and the Irish (never Anglo-Irish) gentry class, the great originality of d’Alton’s scholarship surely continues to rest with his evocation of the richly diverse cultures of urban Protestantism in the south – and especially those of his adopted Cork City. The civil society of Protestant Corkonians in the 18th century is strikingly invoked; while the character of the city and county’s Protestants in the century between 1820 and 1920 is intricately constructed through a sequence of biographical case studies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W5A4VF4CQJD75JYNVPPVUGAOL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720619},"content":"This is not an overly tendentious work; nonetheless, d’Alton is drawn to pragmatists rather than political fundamentalists. He is careful to highlight the profitable adaptability of (for example) Sir John Harley Scott, a Cork city unionist who dexterously navigated the politics of the Parnell Split, playing off Parnellite and anti-Parnellite within Cork Corporation, and bagging for himself both the roles of high sheriff (1892) and lord mayor (1896). D’Alton is also compelled by the steely realism of Arthur Smith-Barry, Lord Barrymore, former scourge of the Plan of Campaign, but by 1913 pragmatically reconciled to working under home rule.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EIUQRC57QVAP3J7MVQN6PHUZQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720620},"content":"More generally, d’Alton makes the important and striking claim that the assimilationist journey of some Cork Protestants had begun well before the creation of the Free State – evidenced by these shifting alliances of the Split era, and later by ex-unionist engagement within William O’Brien’s All for Ireland League. He suggests, convincingly, that the assimilation of southern Protestants within the conservative and clericalist structures of the Free State may have been assisted by the fact that southern Protestants were (in their particular ways) no less conservative and clericalist. In this last respect, one of the most striking of the later essays in the collection reintroduces us to the flinty and formidable Church of Ireland cleric John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg, who ruled his clergy as Archbishop of Dublin and later Armagh with a discipline scarcely less muscular than that exercised by John Charles McQuaid, his Catholic archiepiscopal contemporary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5MGQOMWBJDMTANWEA4W2SFHH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720621},"content":"D’Alton, who reflects at length on the work of Elizabeth Bowen and Iris Murdoch, is also (it should be said) an accomplished literary stylist. These essays are beautifully written, and enlivened throughout with wit and wordplay (for example, he offers a gentle riff, in considering Murdoch’s Dublin and Northern roots, on the tension between her “Irisness” and her “Irishness”). He is, moreover, a companionable guide to all his chosen subjects and communities – at once knowledgeable, informed, but also modest and self-deprecating.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RCTJT4IVFJEE5PFT2DM5DM5WD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720622},"content":"This is indeed both a very substantial collection – and one which (to the author’s credit) leaves an appetite for yet more. D’Alton writes (with characteristic reticence) that “it may be presumptuous and utopian to offer the southern Protestant journey as possibly, in the fullness of time, one for consideration by my northern co-religionists and unionist friends. They’re welcome to the template”. The theme is echoed in the foreword to the collection, supplied by d’Alton’s friend, the distinguished civil servant and historian, Felix Larkin: “In the event of reunification, the history of southern Irish Protestantism as elucidated by Ian d’Alton – the glass half-full rather than half-empty – may provide some comfort to northern Protestants as they ‘search for place in independent Ireland’”. Some aspects of this “southern Protestant journey” were strikingly addressed in an earlier collection, invoked in Larkin’s comment, and co-edited by d’Alton and Ida Milne (Protestant and Irish: the Minority’s Search for Place in Independent Ireland (2019)). But a detailed exploration of the ways in which the southern “template” may (or may not) be relevant to the North remains desperately necessary: this lyrical, original and stimulating collection is a very welcome start.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJCS4PUWS5EMXCC5PRYYY32FTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720623},"content":"In fact, the history of southern unionism in the decade before 1921 often reads like a premonition of the current state of northern unionism: a sequence of cussed stands in indefensible “last ditches”, pursued by leaders addicted to brinkmanship, and followed by internal division, recrimination and chaotic retreat. But of course, it remains to be seen what sort of glass, half-filled or otherwise, beckons at the end of this latest bumpy ride.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVQDM6EYO5BF5KPEK3UAZF2MXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732113720624},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Alvin Jackson"}]},"description":{"basic":"Author connects particular concerns, often focused on Cork Protestantism, with wider debates"},"display_date":"2024-12-04T04:10:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Southern Irish Protestants by Ian D’Alton: A work of great originality and scholarship ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"7LT3T3JU6VZQXGBMK4FHWTJSCI","auth":{"1":"60fa0c6459a18d2b76611f2b5e8bacdd67e5321373a1f833ecd6b619dc8da8bd"},"focal_point":{"x":1520,"y":1330},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7LT3T3JU6VZQXGBMK4FHWTJSCI.jpg"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Books"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/books/review/2024/12/02/southern-irish-protestants-by-ian-dalton-a-work-of-great-originality-and-scholarship/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/books","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Books"}}}},{"_id":"A2ZPOF46ANFSXGEWQEWOHOTGHI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":341,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/dc9d0528-0bcf-4c08-8e0c-3ca4f2185c37/versions/1732896120/media/d0fcc8a62fad75812dc7fb593352cd7c_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/12/01/churches-carry-huge-crosses-as-they-try-to-move-on-from-mistakes-of-past/","content_elements":[{"_id":"BAQF4C276JGBBITDRJQP5JPGLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779575},"content":"A recent newspaper article claimed that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/king-charles/\" target=\"_blank\">King Charles</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kate-middleton/\" target=\"_blank\">Princess of Wales</a>, who are both suffering from cancer, have found “strength in spirituality” in dealing with their illnesses. It is a sentiment which will be appreciated by people from all political and cultural backgrounds in these islands and further afield who would describe themselves as religious or spiritual, though these are not necessarily the same thing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HN5M6DIGABFKDILHGADGOENZWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779576},"content":"Many people nowadays would claim that “religion” is merely the structure of maintaining a Christian faith but that “spirituality” is the essence of faith itself, and not necessarily confined to Christianity alone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DUT5C7AKPBDOLGPKHTYO3KHXWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779577},"content":"On the other hand, many others who cannot accept these concepts may regard them as merely otherworldly escapism in our modern secular society where individuals seek their own “god” in other ways totally removed from what we would have once referred to as traditional religion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GOORSVMB35B77MY3CNKNLTANAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779578},"content":"In my recent book, Keeping the Faith, I set out to reflect on these and other issues which have helped to shape my values and career, during which I have spent more than 60 years as an author and journalist, and nearly 25 of those as the religion correspondent of the Belfast Telegraph.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFK7DOYBVVEDFM6G5M4P3VRKL4","additional_properties":{"_id":"WCPTH43OOVCV7O6NUJXTEOPNDU"},"content":"Why is there a Christian monopoly on chaplaincy in Irish institutions?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IZCNNXN5SZHPNMXPG5VLZS33SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779579},"content":"Looking back to my childhood as a Presbyterian by accident of birth, I realise yet again how churchgoing was obligatory in the small model village of Bessbrook where I was brought up. Sunday worship was an important social occasion, and the Presbyterian Church was also known as the Meeting House because it gave everyone, including local farmers, an opportunity to meet one another and to catch up on local news and gossip. The same applied no doubt to the Anglican and Catholic Churches in our village, and smaller groups like the Quakers and Plymouth Brethren, but significantly each denomination kept strictly to its own beliefs and religious cultural practices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOFIDVOBCNACJDXVI76UNVORHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"57OPJTLUVJA3FKAIYH5BXTXZHM"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"HZXJPZWUFBGEDB2KJ6RLSH2MIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779582},"content":"The only inter-church service of the year was held in the local Methodist Church early on Christmas morning after we villagers walked around the dark streets with flash lamps while we awakened people with our medley of Christmas carols.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CY2IG7JW4ZH7TBHUPYQF67THQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779583},"content":"There was also a kind of cultural apartheid in death. People from the main denominations would express condolences to the bereaved but very few would dare to cross the threshold of a church belonging to “the other side”. Quite often it was regarded as respectful enough to stand silently outside the walls of the church, while the funeral service took place inside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6DET2S5TRD4VOINYSGM3JDF5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779584},"content":"This, of course, was not exclusive to the “Black North”. That picture is mirrored in my colleague <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/17/well-holy-god-by-patsy-mcgarry-an-eternal-life-as-a-religious-correspondent-in-turbulent-times-for-irish-catholicism/\" target=\"_blank\">Patsy McGarry’s excellent new book, </a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/17/well-holy-god-by-patsy-mcgarry-an-eternal-life-as-a-religious-correspondent-in-turbulent-times-for-irish-catholicism/\" target=\"_blank\">Well, Holy God,</a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/17/well-holy-god-by-patsy-mcgarry-an-eternal-life-as-a-religious-correspondent-in-turbulent-times-for-irish-catholicism/\" target=\"_blank\"> </a>in which he forensically skewers the Catholic Church for its many sins of the flesh and spirit while prolonging the religious divisions in society. He and I were brought up as young country boys maybe 150-200 miles apart across the Border as the crow flies, but our experiences were uncannily similar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XWSVLN7LMBAOLB7C33UQ76YF6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779586},"content":"There is no doubt the churches of all the main denominations singularly and collectively failed to lead their congregations across the man-made barriers and rules which were regarded at the time as the teachings of the Gospel – which they certainly were not – and which inevitably led to future scepticism and criticism when people felt free to make up their own minds about such important issues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTUVY7D5SVHDVP4W2QIQXDKX2U","additional_properties":{"_id":"AZ6M3HWNVZDPLHSSLTMM2D7H2E"},"content":"Here’s why churches across Ireland will turn red next Wednesday","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NK7VJ7WONBHHLER4TWYUJKVNTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779587},"content":"That said, I refer in my book to a number of individuals whose deep Christian faith made a difference to those around them. They included the Rev Dr Ray Davey, a former Presbyterian padre during the second World War who spent years in Italian and German prisoner-of-war camps, and returned to his native Ulster to establish the seminal inter-church Corrymeela Community.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P6KR52ACMZCIFGEJUPSZX5IYQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779588},"content":"I was also in awe of my first Belfast Telegraph editor, John E Sayers, a dedicated member of the Methodist Church who survived a Royal Navy shipwreck and worked in Churchill’s map room during the second World War. He then returned to Northern Ireland to try to drag stiff-necked unionism into the 20th century, thus incurring the baleful hostility of the Rev Ian Paisley, who was regarded by many of us as one of the people most responsible for the Troubles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7CGP5D2XZC4TA5F57666ZXEIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779589},"content":"Sadly, Sayers and his supporters lost and Paisley won, and look what happened in the North over the next 40 years or so. Part of my motive in writing my book was to pay tribute to people such as Sayers and Davey and many, many other liberal and courageous bridge-builders who are now part of the forgotten undergrowth of Irish history. If they, and the thousands of others like them, had been successful, how much death, injury and heartache would have been avoided from 1968 onwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDMCYMNC35HO5LJPT3XCVVOYNE","additional_properties":{"_id":"X476VRWESJCNPODIFLI7F7ROQI"},"content":"I know how to behave in a church and I ticked the box for ‘Roman Catholic’ on the census. But I am not a Catholic","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"V2IYTPSNYFHSDKJS3ZYO6W5IOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779591},"content":"Today, there is talk of a possible Border poll which looks as if it will not come any time soon, and much less some kind of Irish unity on a very long finger. However the stark reality remains that you cannot successfully unite the island properly until you unite the people in the North.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPKCK6PEO5DHZMZ3O7SYQD4FBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779592},"content":"Meanwhile, the churches still have their huge crosses to carry as they try to move on from the terrible mistakes of the past and strive to remain relevant in the face of advancing secularism. Perhaps GK Chesterton was right after all when he claimed that “the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KMT7WGE6VA3NHVLXQKTXMLP3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779593},"content":"<i>Alf McCreary is an author and journalist. His book Keeping the Faith is published by Messenger, at €14.95 and £12.95, and is available from local bookshops and on Amazon</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7CKE3GUIZCMVCPMA37OLWW23A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889779594},"content":"<i>Listen to our </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics/\"><i>Inside Politics Podcast</i></a><i> for the latest analysis and chat</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Alf McCreary"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: All Churches face huge challenges moving on from terrible abuses into an advancing secularism"},"display_date":"2024-12-01T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Churches carry huge crosses as they try to move on from mistakes of past","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"BUYQVURYYJEX3ANOFIGVUZIZCY","auth":{"1":"ea80a04af22e247aed06bd052455a528583e324b060700bf781d3604de746677"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BUYQVURYYJEX3ANOFIGVUZIZCY.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/12/01/churches-carry-huge-crosses-as-they-try-to-move-on-from-mistakes-of-past/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"RKB7PUD32RB2RCGTKITPZKDOKY","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/29/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"2X3MWBGEGRBIBNTZTNBLHOTVPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"WDWUPUISKNH4JFDFAYG3EJTX3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin </b>THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Lay Vicars Choral - Taverner: Mass for a Meane, Psalm: 25 vv 1-9, Mundy: Sive Vigilem, Preacher: The Revd K.M. Poulton, B.A., Prebendary of Swords. 18.00 ADVENT PROCESSION BY CANDLELIGHT sung by the Cathedral Choir with readings by Bryan Dobson. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7T6BBXBOOZD7NDIJSWZJABTEYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"V6UGQBXPFFHANK3RITM2Y7TDHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Services Sunday 1st December Monamolin 9 am Morning Prayer Ardamine 10.15 am Morning Prayer Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Holy Communion","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHOMIIB4VFACRPNYUIMEV6LP2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 10th November: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Remembrance Service. Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3YOLVNJTNFIPESO6LFTB7WQOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGROOXCI3BA7PADF3C5PWFI7OU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 1st December, Advent Sunday. 10.30am Holy Communion, 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVG3SVBDENHVVO6IDIP6SUDHPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UH7EB7NIFH4ZAOOUPMZJY5ICM","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"GU5YANUMJ5DQNLYYVGWESWLYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCT3UHJXGRGMZJNKA3YIX77CQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DL65BQFQ5BZNCHZAXJ3MXYZVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAIGXRKK7VC3XDOEMQFV2CXPYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYJTMWCTXFGEXIJROOUS3RTR2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3H6F7B7TNC37JA4IVZO6XQOHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBPM2NNYSREB3BVSNXHRFTHDLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EVWTG5VEFBBPBDNKVDSXG4WUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTLPRGVYNJDGFIIOW5DCSQC6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O6KJU4IIVFA3E5SMTCMJ4IMD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKRDRFEAOZGEFBDBAAXOJSMEQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MPSU43CEVCRZB2R7DA7TBJFZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"XEVX67XLW5GKTMZ5OQTLPPLABE","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"V64PL6VX2ZDDNNRPGPTYNYKY3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYCU3DRA7FBCRDRVG3KXWW5NDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSJQW2ELVNDG5EFJRPDHINVXHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"T2IITSBLQNG2ZDRLHCICBJ3XBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\" target=\"_blank\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, November 30th, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/29/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"NPJL2RPX2NGWNAOGB4H52R4MMM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":341,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/744596b2-87e7-4e78-88b3-00ead4c08b18/versions/1732282085/media/09e7c9fbfbfa753ccf8274e47e476d4b_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/24/why-is-there-a-christian-monopoly-on-chaplaincy-in-irish-institutions/","content_elements":[{"_id":"OLNT23F6FBGR5GPHUCRFSRKMO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013518},"content":"There is not one Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or Jewish chaplain in Ireland. This is a shocking fact when you consider the “diversity” of Ireland now. In the US, UK, Germany and many other countries, non-Christian chaplains are commonplace. To put it plainly, the Irish State is discriminatory when it comes to chaplaincy service provision. No one organisation is embodying this discrimination on its own. It is general, throughout the State.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FL2QKOUHD5HWDM7LCHQUMFC2UY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013520},"content":"Take the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/defence-forces/\" target=\"_blank\">Defence Forces</a>, for example. All their chaplains are Christian and their main services of memorial are Christian rites. The same holds true for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/an-garda-siochana/5/\" target=\"_blank\">An Garda Síochána</a>. The force’s annual service to remember deceased members is a Catholic Mass. So embedded are Christian chaplains in these organisations that they even wear the uniform, whether or not they have undergone the requisite training. Such a privilege is not extended to other faiths. Well, how could it be? Despite other religious members in the rank and file of the army and police, they don’t have chaplains from their own religious traditions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6R6PBGEF5GH3DB4XYJGEYKRPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013522},"content":"And you’ll find a Christian monopoly on chaplaincy in Irish hospitals, hospices and universities, with other faiths not represented. This is staggering, considering how diverse the people working in hospitals and universities are. You’ll also be hard pressed to find spatial provision for any non-Christian faiths in hospitals and universities. And where you do, the provision is wholly inadequate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPGJZLBTM5APPGMR6P52WTWECU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013524},"content":"There appears to be a wilful blindness to the multidenominational country we live in. Despite decades of diversity, it’s business as usual when it comes to the churches’ control over chaplaincy in Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Y5HB7JZ3ZGZ3CV2FVV66YWUH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013525},"content":"The university where I work, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/technological-university-dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">TU Dublin</a>, is a case in point. According to one of the chaplains themselves, 10 people work for the chaplaincy in various capacities. They are all from Christian backgrounds. The chaplains are paid for by the university, but appointed by the Archdiocese of Dublin, which also interviews for the university chaplain jobs. So, the chaplaincy is controlled by the Catholic Church, but paid for by the university – a university supported financially by a diverse student body. Recently, the university has intimated that it is considering dissolving the chaplaincy at TU Dublin and replacing it with a more secular service model. An unlikely defender of this all-Christian chaplaincy emerged in the form of the trade union movement: the TUI has come out in favour of defending the status quo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OTXMOQKL4NBWNIXKZVTDCWYHOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538045638},"content":"The model of chaplaincy is not one I think worth defending, but neither would I support the arid secularity that is being mooted to replace it. A great opportunity may be missed here. As in other multicultural democracies, TU Dublin has a chance to develop a truly inclusive form of multi-faith chaplaincy. Universities, police forces, hospitals and universities around the world have models that could be drawn on. Better than a non-inclusive chaplaincy is a secular pastoral service; better again is a diverse chaplaincy that draws on the various rich spiritual traditions available in modern Irish life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2ESU7F5ZNDS7PKV35LBWRXRJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013528},"content":"A similar set-up persists at many other national institutions in Ireland. Universities may have had their origins in the cloistered realities of medieval religious life, but now they seem intent in aligning themselves with the soulless materialism of international capital and its demands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YYYC5ZMANRHNHDMDTG3THWM36Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013529},"content":"There is a spiritual dimension to reality that is being snuffed out in public forums and in public life generally. And maybe it is better, indeed, that religion be a wholly private affair, rather than a public declaration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMVU2SGDUFDI3GCVD3LJBH2R2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013530},"content":"But there is another way. It requires taking responsibility for change and being imaginative, disestablishing the vested church interests, hanging on for dear life throughout this State, and opening the doors with generosity, trust and in a sense of fairness. It requires recognising that the status quo being defended simply isn’t worth defending.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QQOBPDSLIJFIXIWZ2YG6UTZIW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013532},"content":"What cannot continue is the iron grip that Christian denominations have over chaplaincy in Ireland. In this regard, the State is being grossly discriminatory in myriad ways – through its armed forces, through its police force, through its universities and hospitals. It’s as if there were no such thing as equality legislation and that the last three decades of Irish history simply did not happen. How chaplaincy here has got away with resisting change and equity for so long is beyond me. It seems the bony, cold fingers of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/remains-of-ireland-s-pre-eminent-prelate-moved-to-pro-cathedral-1.4603619\" target=\"_blank\">Cardinal Paul Cullen</a>, the 19th-century prelate who laid the foundations for modern Catholic Ireland, still have us in their grip.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5B6Q5ZGTE5BRNHBIPDGJ7Y76GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732269013534},"content":"<i>Myozan Ian Kilroy is a Zen Buddhist priest. He represents Buddhism on the Dublin City Interfaith Forum and teaches in the TU Dublin School of Media. His book Do Not Try to Become a Buddha will be published by Wisdom Publications, New York, in the new year.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Myozan Ian Kilroy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: Iron grip that Christian denominations have over chaplaincy in Ireland cannot continue"},"display_date":"2024-11-24T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Why is there a Christian monopoly on chaplaincy in Irish institutions?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"XMDVLC3GWJFA3JH5K6S5LDBXV4","auth":{"1":"297bf418a61d02c2b13e8c2a9579a42018ac27f8437e541256e84a3dd99f4d09"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/XMDVLC3GWJFA3JH5K6S5LDBXV4.jpeg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/24/why-is-there-a-christian-monopoly-on-chaplaincy-in-irish-institutions/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"R2KWIZWO7NBSNHGPV2IJV6C7OQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/22/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"G4FE7XJRC5AZTE224367DA6T2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203175887},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"Z2JISJ6MGZF2RBGV6KH7ZBHZIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203175888},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin</b> THE SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST - 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL MATINS sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Radcliffe, Britten in E, Britten in C, Psalm 117, Mathias: Let the people praise thee, Preacher: The Revd A.W.A. Mayes, B.A., M.Litt., Prebendary of Tipper. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Sumsion, Dyson in D, Psalm: 119 vv 1-16, Walford Davies: King of glory, Preacher: The Revd A.W.A. Mayes, B.A., M.Litt., Prebendary of Tipper. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 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Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"65DLEHLH4FG5HEC5ETOEEPZ5WQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVNZRIE325DIRNPG7LIYFDY74Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMKKQQW4W5CVPNG4YS7GHQSAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 24th November - The Sunday before Advent - The Kingship of Christ. 10.30am Morning Prayer. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQYENRBEAFD4LPJDJ7ELFI3LBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"2PHIZE7WKZAVBJ6P57AOGBSM3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HRGW3ICMIBCKFNV5NBMXPNC734","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"DU4PFKY3RBGGPPDV2PLXD2FSLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EQPLCUKGNFMNFVQ5HKLLPCHXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Y7UMZKNZJFWJOY56RUQBYDM4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHKBNMFXRJAWNI3HOIRW4C4N5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"5673HJHFAVCILDX5NHZKZK32UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"F2GGAC2WGJGJLD5WJUXFPEMMQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHGUXNPUOVE57CT5MQRIOZVY7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3N5B5L4TFCMPAYID27BOPWYIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"XXGHVYDZINHONNN7A3JR7GPG5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCWMR7UMONCYVIFUB7YI3BJTGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDUEFXXT7NBD3MYMXRTFANS2OY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y43LNP24TREGHBDFBX3NAM4ZPQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITL2KXFZFJD25JL2EIYCR5YSAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XZYP6SWYDJAYVNLVUUZZYE3HAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYO2ZCNP65G7ZDSO4I5KI42J5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4QCSDBC5JEMDCYAIZRRZUQS5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXVD26A5KBCB5PS5JVRW4UMJ7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5LQNSCE4NDF5HJLE3XCROSQNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"RA52VZGP7ZG5FHSUKGMNDKW5JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"47ASL6Y6PZETDJ6KNNXTWHFSZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203175892},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"D2LHWGX63JDBFBGPCYXNPVMTWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"VFZWQ23SWFFRPMGO3V2IUIB5KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Quaker Meetings in Ireland</b> Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning November 23rd, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-11-22T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/22/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"H7GYK22ZKVDYDOZAUTV3O7LKA4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":361,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/d77b966f-f50d-4519-929e-8f248267a58c/versions/1731680426/media/54d25398a604e0504b8be5335e7f97de_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/17/heres-why-churches-across-ireland-will-turn-red-next-wednesday/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GBFC2H2RFZDVTLT3E5PEIXKYMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770910},"content":"Ridley Scott’s epic historical action film Gladiator II – which opened in Irish cinemas this weekend – brings us immediately back to the Colosseum of ancient Rome. Twenty-five years after the original Gladiator with Russell Crowe, the sequel has Paul Mescal in the lead role. Thanks to the wonders of CGI, the Flavian Amphitheatre is presented in all its glory, a million miles away from the crumbling monument we see today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KGTDFWPX6NDFTCGZZO7OJZD6AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770911},"content":"If you’re like me, you grew up with stories of the heroic Christian martyrs of the first century meeting their grizzly end being fed to lions in the Colosseum, bravely refusing to renounce their faith. The reality of martyrdom and religious persecution, of course, is much less romantic. And one would be mistaken to consign it to history or see it as a thing of the past. Today, one in seven Christians in the world faces persecution or extreme discrimination because of their faith.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LWAMR25YIBHT7H6XZTYJJLKXN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770913},"content":"It is to highlight their plight and to hopefully provoke global action on religious freedom that the charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Ireland dedicates the week of November 17th to 24th as the “week of witness”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRGBOQQORZCEVJFKKRPE2JJHM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770914},"content":"“Martyr” comes from the ancient Greek word for witness, and the centre-point of the week – known as Red Wednesday – will see many cathedrals and churches across Ireland illuminated in red, the traditional symbol of martyrdom. Today, more than 360 million Christians, of all denominations, experience high levels of persecution and discrimination worldwide. This includes violent oppression, government-imposed restrictions, societal discrimination and social ostracisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KVAA6U7K3BEPZFP7L6NETRA76Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770916},"content":"Countries in Asia, the Middle East and parts of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/africa/\" target=\"_blank\">Africa</a> are frequently highlighted as hotspots where Christians face the most severe forms of persecution. Some 5,000 Christians were killed for their faith in Nigeria last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OTFVIKEMVDFNADMAX2BCPPMEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770917},"content":"In places such as North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen, being openly Christian can lead to arrest, imprisonment or even execution. Strict blasphemy laws in countries such as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pakistan/\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/iran/\" target=\"_blank\">Iran</a> can lead to death sentences or life imprisonment for those accused of insulting Islam, a charge frequently levelled against Christians. These charges are often arbitrary, based on false accusations, or used as tools of personal vendettas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D24NRCJTSNGCDIHYA3IL54WP5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770918},"content":"For many Christians living in these areas, practising their faith must be done in secret, away from the prying eyes of authorities, radical religious groups or even neighbours. Underground churches have become a necessity and being caught attending one can result in severe punishment. In the most extreme cases, Christians are driven from their homes, forced to flee their communities and live as refugees in foreign lands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSGO3ND3D5C45DFUPOKBQF2WM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770919},"content":"By drawing attention to their stories, ACN aims to give voice to those who are often voiceless and to assure them that they are not forgotten by the global Christian community.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZK2LUBOCIVDKJF3D23MHEADKQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770920},"content":"Sadly, the situation is getting worse. A new ACN report, entitled Persecuted and Forgotten? – due to be published this week – provides a global and<i> </i>regional analysis, examining the situation for Christians in 18 countries of key concern, from Nicaragua in Latin America to Myanmar in the Far East to Burkina Faso in West Africa.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4SCGKQ4DJGOTJ54ESFUE2G5OY","additional_properties":{"_id":"S3FFDUT4YNASHGLHWCFSOEQBKE"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"AQL7MNHZ5REMHMFHPWIPT6M2DE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770921},"content":"The report reveals that Islamic extremism was responsible for the increased persecution in all six African countries reviewed, indicating that the epicentre of militant Islamism has shifted from the Middle East to Africa. The mass migration of Christian communities, triggered by militant Islamist attacks, has destabilised and disenfranchised them, raising questions about the long-term survival of the Christian community in key regions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WTDMOR6QERDVJJNKCNL6UJGDFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770922},"content":"Countries where Christian persecution and oppression has increased include world powers such as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\" target=\"_blank\">China</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/india/\" target=\"_blank\">India</a>, as well as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nigeria/\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria</a>, Africa’s most populous country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TVC3QJGWWBFMRF47ZU2BIAH6UA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770923},"content":"For the first time in the report’s 18-year history, Nicaragua is featured in response to extreme oppressive measures targeting Christians, notably the mass detention and expulsion of clergy. Recurring themes in the report include the displacement of Christian communities following attacks by extremist groups and the forced marriage and conversion of Christian women and girls, as well as the kidnapping and intimidation of priests and the publication of derogatory content about Christianity in school textbooks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXNDO4DOJJAIXG7RVUHSYHGSJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770925},"content":"Anti-Christian persecution has been perpetrated by both state and non-state actors, such as militant organisations, other groups of religious extremists and criminal gangs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQBP4AICRNHBLIFDQUO2CVQ6OA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770926},"content":"At the same time, authoritarian regimes, including those in China, Eritrea, India and Iran, ramped up repressive measures against Christians, either in the name of religious nationalism or state secularism. In the 21st century, you might be forgiven for assuming that religious tolerance and freedom are universally recognised and respected. However, Christians across the globe continue to face varying degrees of persecution, discrimination and hostility. While the nature and intensity of this mistreatment differs from region to region, the phenomenon remains disturbingly widespread, affecting millions of believers in both overt and subtle ways.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEMUVF475ZEXFPNSHXZO6DU5PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731671770928},"content":"<i>Michael Kelly is director of public affairs for the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need, Ireland. For more information, or to read the </i>Persecuted and Forgotten? <i>report, see </i><a href=\"http://www.acnireland.org/\"><i>www.acnireland.org</i></a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Michael Kelly"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: One in seven Christians in the world faces persecution or extreme discrimination because of their faith"},"display_date":"2024-11-17T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Here’s why churches across Ireland will turn red next Wednesday","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"PONSGBIPQTVFQZ46F6EOCRUMHA","auth":{"1":"0bbe2bd38bfe742e7bd04d17516fdb0c780ecdff4b897611dfa6c438e945be95"},"focal_point":{"x":435,"y":205},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PONSGBIPQTVFQZ46F6EOCRUMHA.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/17/heres-why-churches-across-ireland-will-turn-red-next-wednesday/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"5GRJT52CTNG4FOQJ3VD7DGAVRU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/15/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"MKMOOMRDSVHOFIH2FW4YPTBWKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"TGPZFOUMMBAO3HPJIJYL4ZQXS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin</b> THE SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Lay Vicars Choral - Da Monte: Missa Si ambulavero, Psalm 16, Morales: Beati omnes, Preacher: The Revd M.T. Kingston, <a href=\"http://B.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">B.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://M.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">M.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of Yagoe. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Lay Vicars Choral -in memory of Artists, Musicians, and Entertainment professionals - Responses: Tallis, Batten: The Short Service, Psalm: 89 vv 1-19, Anon (16thC): Justorum animae, Preacher: The Revd M.T. Kingston, <a href=\"http://B.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">B.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://M.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">M.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of Yagoe. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYXRG6ZS6FEHVKNF6TFWSVFA4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"VGWDFN3P4NCGFBZNKEAAUDF35I","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Monamolin 9 am Morning Prayer Ardamine 10.15 am Holy Communion Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Morning Prayer","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDKAZHDXRFFT5NAZOFRUPZ5MBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 10th November: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Remembrance Service. Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IKJSJ54VBCTHP6EUURKOELEY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FRCLJ53PGVHXFGYVNIFGBHTYAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IC4H4TMG2BF5ZNBS6NMY7VR7LY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 17th November - The Second Sunday before Advent. 10.30am Holy Communion and Holy Baptism. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AGYYDRYWFNGS5MIQZBLRWTLQXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"5LH5GVYUVVA3HFXGBQALGPHLXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GP36L6LRB5CI7CAJKBJAMX3PAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6LGUHET7BBF5DUQTQVGQG4IN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDM7FE3BOZAF3DHTF6TBWCGM5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCKQUOBOH5GWFJKZCV26NCAYRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7UBEJ4OHNC5JKP2ENO5URVONU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUQVZOKZXVAMXFRVTJQMAC3DVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZ3RTVJKDRFOTPOKZXOQSDMBEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSAIXUAQERGKBGMXSA3DWQREPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORFRHKEVVZHUJAC7LAQDJ75FKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XPMH7OOS5G75AFQGLKDLEOVWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT5C3HRW6ZE5LMODJTESWNN4CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Y5RGLO3UFASJNMTAZQMHENOEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"ISIBJOKLSFDSVJOAF6RUQD4MGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6PPFZMEEJA3ZBOCMDZ2YZYZYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ONA6OPZNPBDJXG32FBYYLRRZGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"CJ3R2E5BAZEWRA5YMJBJ3R6QLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Quaker Meetings in Ireland</b> Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\" target=\"_blank\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, November 16th, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-11-15T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/15/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"Q6EKRYDLMVCFLFLPED7URGI764","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":326,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a056f5d4-985d-4014-ac39-66855e3e21dd/versions/1731077929/media/091b50ea51e0aeb994a28d776bb1efbc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/10/i-know-how-to-behave-in-a-church-and-i-ticked-the-box-for-roman-catholic-on-the-census-but-i-am-not-a-catholic/","content_elements":[{"_id":"MIZ2PKBRENBSLGGF3E3RPLJMBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341088},"content":"On Sunday April 3rd, 2022, I was one of the 3.5 million Irish people who ticked a box marked “Roman Catholic” on an official census form. I don’t remember filling the form out. I probably didn’t think much of it. It was April: exam season was around the corner and I probably didn’t feel like doing the internal work needed to interrogate my religious beliefs. I did what I have been conditioned to do, growing up in Ireland. I ticked “Roman Catholic” and moved on with my life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5POBQB2KKVDLXIFP7DYTNGZ7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341089},"content":"Almost 70 per cent of the people in Ireland claimed to be Catholic on their census forms back in 2022. This number seems impossible. How can more than two-thirds of the country claim to be Catholic when the Church in Ireland is battling dwindling attendances, a reduction in the number of dioceses and a crippling lack of vocations? The maths doesn’t add up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BF22DB6MMFAARCG3P63OJV6MVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341090},"content":"The answer is simple: people like me are the problem. I am part of what I would call Ireland’s “culturally Catholic” generation. I was born at the end of the 1990s and grew up in a country that was completely distinct from the Ireland of the previous millennium.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCXVTXLY65BZBCVXTOV3CE5BMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341091},"content":"Between the Celtic Tiger, the rise of neoliberalism, the advent of the internet and the unprecedented economic crisis of 2008, a huge amount changed in a few short years. While these cultural factors certainly influenced my childhood, I believe that my peers and I have been most shaped by the fact that we grew up in the wake of the Catholic Church abuse scandal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JITV4B35BBHO7B24ZZOCWZ45UE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341092},"content":"Whereas generations of people in Ireland had been connected by their shared faith, their shared commitment to the Church and their shared Christian values, I was raised in a state of semi-secular disconnect. My parents, like most of their peers, recoiled from the Church after the scandal broke. The tether that connected my family to the Catholic Church broke and nothing else took its place. As such, we never stopped “being” Catholic despite the fact we stopped attending church, praying, reading scripture or essentially acting like Christians in any meaningful way. This experience, unfortunately, is the rule rather than the exception among my peers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTRLFFU3NNDL3AMURHLJ5C6YTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341094},"content":"This upbringing has left me in a strange state of limbo. I don’t feel like a Christian but I know how I am supposed to act in church; I know when to stand, when to kneel, what to say and how to dress. I’ve been conditioned to be comfortable in church but I’ve never been taught to take religion seriously.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FEKWXVCSRNETVE2OYPLRH5SQ7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341095},"content":"Ireland’s primary schools, institutions that claim to be couched in the values of the Catholic Church, teach children how to “be” Christian in the broadest sense. My peers and I were taught how to create the appearance of faith and devotion without ever being encouraged to connect meaningfully with this faith.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPSA2PUC35BPBJTVBEXG6Q4CAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341096},"content":"Religion was part of the curriculum. You learned the stories, you practised the lines and you sang the songs. You did all this not out of devotion or passion but because it was part of your homework.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XN5XRJFEYNARHJ66U2XJLIB3D4","additional_properties":{"_id":"2EDJ47FH5JBT5NRIWKIOR2SXOA"},"content":"I’m a walking, talking example of how driving home the message of the Catholic Church in schools does not work","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"546IH4UJXBGODHAHACJWEWKA5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341097},"content":"This has led to me developing a strange relationship with lived religion. Going to church, attending Mass or engaging with the Catholic Church in any meaningful way has always felt, to me, like acting. Since I was a kid, I have been taught how I should perform. Over years of dedicated practice, I committed my lines to memory. My choreography: excellent. Everyone knows that my sign of the cross was crisp and convincing. Attending Mass, for me, was like taking part in a local theatre production, one that takes place weekend after weekend.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GIGFBIB2TZA3FDLUHKMNJ6BZ5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341098},"content":"During adolescence, I enjoyed the thrill of these feelings, this deceit. I was above the shackles of organised religion and by making the movements of faith convincingly, I was fooling those around me; Catholicism was silly, it was frivolous and mockable. Mass was boring and priests were worthy of ridicule (I was old enough to have learned about the horrors that had taken place in schools like the one I attended). The older I got, the more I performed and the more I performed, the more convincing my performances became.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGLZYEOQCVFNNIXULIQYEJU5RU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341099},"content":"I wish I could say that the more time I spent in Mass, the less cultural my Catholicism became or that my story includes a moment of transcendent revelation. It doesn’t. In fact, I’ve stopped attending Mass. I’ve stopped going to church altogether.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXYG6UZ6GFCZ3KGOP6Y3VWOHVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341100},"content":"I spent this last year pursuing a Master’s degree in Theology, an experience which surrounded me with incredible people, Christians with rich faith and a deep connection to God. Their earnest and authentic faith was inspiring to see and convinced me of one thing: I am not a Catholic. And, if we’re being honest, most of the people who ticked the box marked “Roman Catholic” in 2022 aren’t either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKHJIDHN6REDFLZAYF22AKI2RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731059341101},"content":"<i>Alex Connolly is a recent graduate from Trinity College Dublin</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Alex Connolly"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: Going to church, attending Mass or engaging with the Catholic Church in any meaningful way has always felt, to me, like acting"},"display_date":"2024-11-10T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"I know how to behave in a church and I ticked the box for ‘Roman Catholic’ on the census. 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Oxley, B.A., <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of St Audoens. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Radcliffe, Stanford in A, Psalm: 46, Howells: Take him to earth for cherishing. Preacher: The Revd D.W. Oxley, B.A., <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of St Audoens. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOQ6WNPPFVHPBDCFSKPELA4PUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756987},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"WI5E6PQTNNGTBI4B2GBNMM5GXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756988},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Services Sunday 10th November Monamolin 9 am Holy Communion Kiltennel 10.15 am Holy Communion Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Morning Prayer","type":"text"},{"_id":"TZAB5Z6GO5HCBJ4TXX7PBEY77E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756989},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 10th November: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Remembrance Service. Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2I2J2DXGORF2HEX65CI3RFL3J4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756990},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G3ZYXZKEMNHVTK7MQJQAAZX7RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756991},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERT7NSV7HNHDBG4E3TWDH6P5ZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756992},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 10th November - The Third Sunday before Advent. 10.30am Morning Prayer. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVQMADE6YBBWHM4E3KR5HHWNPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"T436KQGM5FDYRNQ6UKINT6IC2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"33KMFYL4IVHFROV2P4ALIDP2RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ESFLUC2OZAIFLNO7SYT4H66VA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CBXHDPXDFH7ZIKNI2RHY5PIAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFLNZGIUR5DJJC2O7HCBGAEVBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OBS2VPXKKFF4XLDDUN4MACOOQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOI3IZQZN5CLLPOY53LX74C62U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLVIEBOSKZERFDZ6EA6GPRXZXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPN5AUYJLRFTFKTFTDPZOBEQBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWFSLW6DHNBWBNAAWBY6ZL3UCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZHF4TOEPRFULBYLWICDZLNLBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"TK36HTLPJVBCJPPAML4YBAVKRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZVEW2AQWVHIJDB32NFOYZLL2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756993},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"LLTLUNUFSNFUFBK2TAQJ6KC5RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756994},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"26F4VQ76J5DPZPK77ZO4TFEGKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFNMFSRIUFBMLIPTFAKN6WCU6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756995},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"EQRYVSDXZZAGPFIOZN2JHRAMLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756996},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\" target=\"_blank\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, November 9th, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-11-08T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/08/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"5KSM4INORNAHFHNND432TAW77A","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/01/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"N6IVVSDV2RC7BDKP5ZMASGJ6EU","additional_properties":{},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"KYRSXNF7TJGNNE5HL6HR5E3XAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin</b> THE FOURTH SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT All Saints Day 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Lay Vicars Choral. Byrd: Mass for 3 voices, Psalm: 146, Byrd: Gaudeamus omnes, Preacher: The Revd D.W.T. Crooks, M.A., B.D., Prebendary of Howth. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Lay Vicars Choral. Responses: Rose, Sumsion in G, Psalm: 18 vv1-16, Moore: In paradisum. Preacher: The Revd D.W.T. Crooks, M.A., B.D., Prebendary of Howth. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOU6UHE52FBUJINTWKSCCVLQPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"JL2THDQCRVEVPPDEA4XCXG24YU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 3rd November: 8.30am Holy Communion; 11am Holy Communion with Baptism (All Saint’s Day). Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YR6RGKCOBCCNDM5E7MGHEZ7RA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), All Saints. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JFJ6ZLADBVALZDCJGOJX6EYLXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Eucharist, All Saints Sunday. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TBBWB64VZBHILNXNDGYJGAGHWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church </b>Sunday 3rd November - The Fourth Sunday before Advent. Patronal Festival - The anniversary of the Opening of Zion Church on All Saints Day 1861. 10.30am Holy Communion, 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WCT6MVVL2FFBRE6VK3JEWS5AXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"QBARTTRHNRDQTCEZRSIKPUAQNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U5B74E5ATNE4FKGJPSY2HNZXQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGVYEYBYBNDORFAM73FUB6VYTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ZGDRKVWPNFK3PKUGAQLUTPRXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7TYWVG4RBFGZCQDE43VIAXYWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WY4SZAVB5C2VH2CS3ZIGMHGP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HKCPZJGMJFANEEGAUVKOZCCEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5VSLNBRABDBHI6SM6Z6ICADBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LRHKE5I3F5CVDIOHBOXFKWV5RE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6ZBQK6FVNHFNPO6OFS5IUBLGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5GT5Z3IQBFJXCFGFPQF3LWMBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"47CUERQIHJHMHDIZXQSYHLTPII","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPOU6QQJ35FHZMSUCSAE6W375I","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"NNYCK6EZV5EWLKLWKMEOHW5LCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJEHP6ADMVGLHETCQMVEFACGOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"EAZCGO6AQ5DYFGZHKQ6EGQSZLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"KTYXADVIUBCKBJWPTUWVSGITMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\" target=\"_blank\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, 1st November"},"display_date":"2024-11-01T19:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/01/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"O5UFGKGCLBF6TIH2RYQ46B5L64","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":392,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/17aca77c-e329-427d-a906-62f89a6eaa65/versions/1729862100/media/475349ee5e6dfb3c94728eb78e27e815_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/10/27/sexual-violence-kept-secret-by-up-to-80-of-survivors-but-those-who-speak-out-offer-them-hope/","content_elements":[{"_id":"ISGM2J4OKNDMXOAMONJRWT76KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225643},"content":"Last Monday, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/10/21/assailant-given-eight-years-for-rape-and-coercive-control-of-wife/\" target=\"_blank\">K</a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/10/21/assailant-given-eight-years-for-rape-and-coercive-control-of-wife/\" target=\"_blank\">athleen Correia</a> spoke outside the Central Criminal Court where her former husband had been jailed for eight years for raping and coercively controlling her, among other abuses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RL7DYZSNIVB3DKSZSSYB6PC3Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225644},"content":"She said coming to the decision to waive her anonymity had been difficult but it was right for her. Correia spoke about the years she had spent silent and concealing the truth, and how these had brought feelings of isolation, shame and guilt. She said she felt that if she remained anonymous, she would continue to carry those feelings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUGMQNLLVFHVVAKBIYOLRGAGGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225645},"content":"These emotions and the burden of carrying complex trauma with no support will be well-recognised by victims and survivors of sexual violence. The social and cultural barriers that prevent people from speaking openly about this issue are taking decades to dismantle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5YSPIE5KRGXTA27QEJVXVOMLM","additional_properties":{"_id":"IDJPBV5VFBDL3CLVE32QR6RNJU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"VGLBNJAXQJFOXAZ37PDYZK62GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225646},"content":"As recently as 1993, Lavinia Kerwick waived her anonymity in an interview with Gerry Ryan. Speaking about that seismic moment during an appearance on the Late Late Show in 2019, she said that “pre-1990/1991 you would never hear the word ‘rape’ on radio, it was like a curse word”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVBJREY4QZGPFA5BD3PAJIJEDM","additional_properties":{"_id":"IBFM6XJ2SVHJHG5FUUKGF56LFI"},"content":"Assailant given eight years for rape and coercive control of wife","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FL4QQVF4CRDRBOHD6DK5VU4G2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225647},"content":"Kerwick’s extraordinary courage laid a path for victims of rape and sexual violence, who would go on to follow her lead and speak publicly themselves. As she said so powerfully, “this guilt and shame does not belong to you, it belongs to the rapist”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3WUW7AGDINGVVPIEZJ4JOFBXJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225648},"content":"Now, three decades later, Kathleen Correia’s message to the public is still about shame and guilt, the very same words that Lavinia Kerwick used. During this time, thousands of perpetrators have hidden in plain sight because the social stigma and silence associated with sexual violence have not yet been eliminated and have effectively provided perpetrators with cover.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGO3NQTHIVFWZB52IXO5HDATUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225649},"content":"Dublin Rape Crisis Centre is in awe of and grateful for the extraordinary contribution made by people who choose to speak publicly about their experience. But for the vast majority, speaking on the steps of the court is not an option. Only a tiny proportion of the overall number of people who have suffered sexual violence go on to see their perpetrator convicted of a crime.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3X2P2Z5OFG57FJCUJAVHEQKHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225650},"content":"Those who experienced child sexual abuse and are now in adulthood face even greater challenges. There are understandably many others who don’t want to speak publicly and there should be no pressure or shame in this either – every survivor of sexual violence has to feel the way forward for themselves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJ5RUHXDPBFW3ISUZ7GYLZTYRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225651},"content":"For those who cannot or do not want to take the legal route, or those who start the process but never get the validation of a conviction, there may not be the same catharsis for the victim that a guilty verdict or public acknowledgment of wrongdoing may bring.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HVGWHTNFD5EYTAAZIU5RC3UEEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZSUDHXLEMVAN3IRJBLN3DP7ZWM"},"content":"Because of Lavinia Kerwick, Ireland learned about the trauma of sexual crime","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ZA355S6LW5FLZEZSVMN3MMURJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225652},"content":"So what are the options for people for whom a legal pathway is not taken? Without criminal justice, is there any justice for victims? Where is the validation for what happened? How can survivors find support from someone who understands and who has supported other survivors facing the same trauma many times before?","type":"text"},{"_id":"X63SR6PG3JD35JALOXG5I2PKUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225653},"content":"Over the summer, there was a criminal case in which a husband was found guilty of raping his wife over more than two decades. The media coverage of this case prompted other women who faced identical experiences to call the 24-hour National Rape Crisis Helpline, women who may never make a complaint to the Garda but who saw their own experiences mirrored in this case. They quietly shared in the triumph of the guilty verdict because it indirectly acknowledged their own experiences and this gave them the courage to pick up the phone. So there are many other victims who silently bear the trauma of similar experiences and who seek common ground with other survivors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NFUUYFDVRHT5PTSUFD5BG6WG4","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZWZBVU4NDRD57J3CMRL6YCLOV4"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"VT2OUL75SJGGTAXFNQLDILXP3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225655},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"S35KWOB2LFF43NDMJNH3OOT7DQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225656},"content":"This is why Dublin Rape Crisis Centre developed the “Signs of Hope” awareness campaign which gives survivors of sexual violence a platform to connect with others who have not sought help from support services. As many as eight in 10 people never seek help. This is a statistic we are focused on changing, by using messages crafted by survivors themselves that encourage others towards the confidential and anonymous National Rape Crisis Helpline.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LP6MHHPJKFBL3PCCU4AVVOXM3I","additional_properties":{"_id":"OCWQ33IYKJD3TJ7GHMYH5YJVJI"},"content":"Gisèle Pelicot’s horrifying experience is familiar to some women in Ireland","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LO6RILNW6RAKZAUENZOOMLM5YA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225657},"content":"One handwritten message came from a survivor of childhood sexual abuse in a religious-run school. It reads, “I know a safe place you can tell your story.” The fact that in the past there was no safe place for him to talk chimes with what Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell is reported to have said on US television during the week: “There was a culture of denial, a culture of covering up, a culture of silencing, ignoring.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3X65VPYRBEBVNULXSWAHRT6TM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225658},"content":"Many callers to the helpline will never go on to tell another person what happened to them. Others have said their loved ones suspect they were affected in some way and have tried to offer support, but that they don’t want their families to be “contaminated” by what happened to them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GNAG4AA2VCT3DG4EOUWY4J6SE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225659},"content":"Some callers report very matter of factly what happened to them and we know they will never call us again, because all they wanted to do was verbalise their abuse to someone. To hear a counsellor at the end of a phone say that it was never their fault, that they are believed and that their experience matters is enough for some victims.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECGWT3LZIVGRLGJ4AWTSDNYXCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225660},"content":"One man who called us recently said he just wanted to speak the truth, to give acknowledgment to the awful wrongs he had endured in school. Like Kathleen Correira, he hoped that speaking the truth may set him free.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPEHC22MMVBHZDSS6CFLXB3OTI","additional_properties":{"_id":"HETT4JLULZDCLI4N762RJEZAWQ"},"content":"Dublin Rape Crisis Centre launches billboard campaign to raise awareness","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2NEXYKQHZRAPNNUQSZ3YLAIMCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225661},"content":"It is hope that ties together the experiences of all the survivors fronting the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s awareness campaign. They believe in a future where there is no shame, there is no isolation and there is no stigma and where people feel entitled to access the support services that are out there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYB5VC227RBERLZ65LCQ77LSUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225662},"content":"Many callers to the helpline start with, “I’m not sure you can help me” and “I’m not sure I’m on to the right place.” Our message is that we can help you and you are on to the right place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3HQD6HYQBCBBCEJI6VEDWTK4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225663},"content":"As the tagline of this campaign says, “When you’re ready to talk, we’re ready to listen.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3HVJUL7V5G23AIXGEYTVW34SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729788225664},"content":"<i>Rachel Morrogh is chief executive of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. Free, confidential support is available for anyone affected by sexual violence on the 24-hour National Helpline at 1800 77 88 88</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Rachel Morrogh"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: Callers to Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s helpline often just want to verbalise their abuse once and will never call again. 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McKay, O. Carm, B.A., B.D., M.Phil., D.D., Prebendary of Clondalkin ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MYUJAQIUJC7LIUFRZNFQDUPIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"15.15 EVENING PRAYER said in the Lady Chapel EVENING PRAYER at 17.30 on Monday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Tuesday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 – Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4MUK3DZRNEQLB2FJ6BEWJYENA","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"5PVRIIV66ZC57GSLGZ6PQVF3WQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday) with Hymns and Anglican Chant, the Ninteenth Sunday after Trinity. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Access on foot through St Audoen’s Park. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church. The OPW Visitor Centre is open every day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24HUOP3PSZHRDNBVNMVKGP2NXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Eucharist, the Ninteenth Sunday after Trinity, sung by the choristers of St Patricks Cathedral, directed by Stuart Nicholson, accompanied by Robin Shakespeare, organ scholar, followed by refreshments. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YAYE3MPFMJDM7EYILONGVCVSQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"7K57YAWOZRHXRAI5B6VZZZHW6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JF7JX4VYXJABZAFPWMHVGOM3VY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UZEO2O75BEYHIOOMYSFT5BSFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEGCPIFFCJAXDOQQKYOA2K4URU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECYVCTXBRFCKJKIOJHJZGHKIYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZPSGHXG3FB5ZMBJE62F6IVSDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2V5XQAXAJDCVNAUJVVXLNBDCE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJSEBLJUXZB57L4VYMW27TF36A","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HI5T2KYJ2BC55PV5XI7DLJZZQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4MCSS3PIRDZ3NMMH5M2CBFUIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E66D6UEJVVHY5EKQNFALBQU7SQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"6M6U2JYOMBFTBIETYQUSZZWGNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. 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Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"27EQHBIFTZHCDIEXLHGUBP3UFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"KWA56Z4QRVBJ5O7UGIAIGGLNV4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. 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Unlike my other “zero” birthdays, I found I had little interest in marking it with a typical celebration. Forty felt different. I found myself quietly contemplating the fact that somewhere in the next decade (based on average life expectancies) I would likely have fewer years ahead than behind me. That felt serious and, as my birthday approached, I had a heightened awareness of how important it was to use time wisely.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPH7W6FUK5DTXN4IOAEXL4EHTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710425},"content":"From this mindset, I booked my husband and I to walk the final section of the French <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/camino\" target=\"_blank\">Camino</a>, from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, on my birthday week. I hoped it would allow time for reflection; I’m not <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/religion-beliefs\" target=\"_blank\">religious</a> in the traditional sense, and I find the word “spiritual” offputting. Yet, as a writer, I have spent a lot of my life thinking and reading, taking time to contemplate questions about life’s meaning, attempting to understanding human behaviour, including my own, and wondering is there a wider presence behind it all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2Z4ZSJC7RCVNEDCJREK7NJGLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710426},"content":"The first day of the pilgrimage, as the sun arose above the trees lining the Rio Sarria, we walked through the town to the overwhelming chorus of birds. John and I selected our stones; part of the Camino ritual is carrying a stone, which one leaves behind at some point on the journey, in a symbolic act of letting go. We bought our scallop shells from a tourist shop, as it seemed everyone on the pilgrimage had one hanging from their bags, and collected our pilgrim passports to get stamped at the various stops along the journey. In many ways, the whole Camino is one large ritual, built on these smaller ones.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QAHMB2UZBGODH4O2ONQ5Z32UU","additional_properties":{"_id":"UVSW5S36XJCAPMKQSGLGFFAY4U"},"content":"Paul Flynn: Eating all around us on the Camino","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6YZGYTUDFRAXLACKQKEHFHOFPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710427},"content":"We made our way into oak woodland cloaked in mist. I was reminded of the forests around my childhood home in Cork. Other than the small Romanesque churches dotted along the route, it was Ireland as I knew it in the late 1990s. There were small farms of cows, with old-fashioned milking parlours, rusting farm equipment, as well as yards with pigs and dogs and mules. The first two days passed in this way, the foggy mornings dissolving into blue skies, the dappled light travelling through the unpredictable paths of the branches, vibrant green prickly chestnuts strewn on the paths, the small orchards of fallen apples, hedgerows dense with ferns, and muddy fields with limousin cows, with occasionally the rhythmic sound of crickets. What I grew to enjoy was the messages (graffiti) that had been left by others along the trail: “LOVE is aLL!”, “The journey is the reward!”, “How do you know if someone loves you?”, “Follow your dreams”, and “Sh*t is hard, but you are harder”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4JKFUEFTJEB3NR36CZPIOG2SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710428},"content":"Of those we met on the route, quite a significant number were groups of Spanish students. Occasionally we heard English speakers, mostly American or Irish, but for the most part it was a simple “Buen Camino” as we passed fellow travellers. The few Americans we spoke to reminded me that for a large portion of travellers it was a religious journey; I winced as they spoke confidently about Christ and God in a way an Irish person would be most unlikely to. One couple from Texas were on the Camino before volunteering in a Christian hostel afterwards, where each evening they show films on the life of Jesus. We walked with for quite some time with another lady and her two daughters, all from Washington State, who had completed most of the Camino route (800kms). She was religious, but in a gentle way. She said her faith had “made her a better person” and spoke of the loss of her husband, her reason for undertaking the pilgrimage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OMPR3FL2TNDHPPIU5O2TUCVG7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710429},"content":"John and I talked sometimes, sometimes were silent. We spoke about the tension I felt when people spoke of Christ and God. I realised, as a gay man, I assume I’ll be judged by them. We also discussed Galician graveyards, where the dead aren’t buried, but stacked in wall vaults, something that seemed odd to me, as I’d like my body to be placed in the ground where it would be reabsorbed by nature.","type":"text"},{"_id":"57OSMLW5WBC3DMR2DTQXSRI7UA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710430},"content":"Day three, the weather changed. We bought cheap plastic ponchos and tried to make the best of it but when we got to the hotel after seven hours of walking in the rain, I was feeling deeply unspiritual. That day, my knees, through significant amounts of discomfort, reminded me I would be 40 in less than two days. I tried to remind myself that the magical rolling hills of oak forest only existed because there was lots of rain. I thought quite a bit about the stone I was carrying, contemplating what I wanted to leave behind, notably my habit of people-pleasing and the burnout it was causing. I also reflected on my relationship with alcohol, as I’d read several books on sober living in the past year that had resonated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2BRGGZ5KC5B7HICQYSY5II5EH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710431},"content":"Day four, we set off before dawn to avoid a weather front due that afternoon. We walked in darkness, using the torches on our phones, while overhead the sky progressed from black to navy. The rains of the previous day had the positive effect of renewing the trail; as the day grew brighter, the greens had become more vivid, and I noticed flashes of yellow gorse and a purple flower not unlike an amaryllis. I made a note on my phone that day. “What is a pilgrimage if you are not religious?” I reflected on Philip Larkin’s poem Church Going, in which he muses about what churches will be used for when religion is done away with. He ends with the idea that they’ll be “serious houses” for those with a hunger to “be more serious”, and I thought about how it related to the Camino.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RHKREX3ARG7ZM4CWL7RPHZ5PM","additional_properties":{"_id":"YZJADDAPRVCCDFLXNVS2L7CXG4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WPMGFDPJC5GFTNNR4TUETRW7AI","additional_properties":{"_id":"XXA4ICWCVNG23CKSM4WSDXFX3I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YVP6WAI6VJBVVIFVJDZ7WXXMXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710432},"content":"We avoided the rain and were in our hotel by the time the first heavy splatters hit the windows. I was thankful that afternoon to rest some hours on the bed. I checked my Instagram (my rule was to keep my phone on airplane mode while on the walk) and my attention was caught by Sophia Loren, just 50, discussing a conversation she had with Charlie Chaplin, where he’d said to her, “You don’t know how to say no. It’s a terrible failure.” I’ve rewatched the clip many times since.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D7L3QAVTHNDTJN7OJL6FZREM5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710433},"content":"On the final day of the pilgrimage I woke up to the sound of John shuffling at the dark corner of the room. When he moved away, I saw two lit candles (in the shapes of 4 and 0) around a makeshift “cake” of Lindor sweets and Italian cannoli. As I blew out the candles, I thought back to the graffiti on the Camino: “LOVE is aLL!”. After breakfast, we walked through shimmering eucalyptus forests, that gave way to increasingly suburban landscape towards Santiago de Compostela. In between some cartoonishly heavy showers, John and I spoke about the journey and what it had meant for us. During the 175,000 steps, what was strange how quickly time had passed, the kind of sensation that occurs when you are out of normal life, like the years during the Covid pandemic, or the way it goes around weddings and funerals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TH73KZS3BGCLPD4MPVIMWPKZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"DDNBGJ2MF5CJRJTZ6IRVEOYSPM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4Q7QPCQJUNEBLMLUSJAY3T2FLA","additional_properties":{"_id":"4UNVRT257NGP3PRTUWPQ3S3VXY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XMK7RKMUMNA6REBXPAIV5URJXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710434},"content":"We passed into the old city and made our way down through a stone archway, the sounds of Galician bagpipes playing, that led to the Praza do Obradoiro. The overwhelming baroque facade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela rose at one side, dominating the skyline. In front of the cathedral, our rituals commenced: we took our picture at the end point of the Camino (marked on the ground) and figured out where the pilgrim office was to get our certificate. Neither of us were sure what to do with our Camino stones; other travellers had placed them in piles at various places along the route; however, looking around at the vast perfectly maintained square, here was neither ideal nor correct to throw them away. After some Google-mapping, I suggested an alternative. There was a small tributary in the city, Rio Sarela, a couple of hundred metres away from Praza do Obradoiro. There, on an ancient stone bridge (like something from The Quiet Man) and after a deep breath, I dropped the stone into the water and said to myself, “I let go of what does not serve me”, bringing my Camino to an end.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5QVFOBRI5GXZFPPNRF23VH2EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"AEURYPNFOVFFZMYTBXQRZR6V7Y"},"content":"Jamie O'Connell: How the cost of your expensive cup of coffee breaks down","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"N7BPBATMZ5DF7PL3MSW2IEKH4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1728911710435},"content":"We have a collective myth around the Camino, one that has evolved many rituals over time, which began with an apocryphal story about St James the Great, and from then the devout have flocked along the routes to Santiago de Compostella for more than a millennium. The pilgrims are different now. I, like many, question if the body and bones in the crypt are of St James and I question their miraculous powers. Yet, the one thing that is unchanged for everyone walking the route is they are all seekers of one sort or another. However, I doubt what is sought can be found physically en route. For me, the Camino offers space, a time and place for those who hunger “to be serious”, to discover meaning where it ultimately resides, within ourselves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZUKPCBO3CRCEHONCUFB3UUKAY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729239002855},"content":"Jamie O’Connell is the author of Diving for Pearls","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Jamie O'Connell"}]},"description":{"basic":"The pilgrim walk is famous and cargoed with expectation. Ultimately it might help us find meaning within ourselves"},"display_date":"2024-10-20T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Walking the Camino: ‘We spoke about the tension I felt when people spoke of God. 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The Rev Good’s very readable memoir In Good Time vividly endorses such a judgment. Born in Derry in 1937 (”I am a northerner and a proud son of that city”), he was ordained in 1962, and has been a minister with family connections across Ireland and a ministry practised in both of its jurisdictions. In 2005, Good and the Redemptorist priest Fr Alec Reid were famously co-witnesses of the decommissioning of IRA weapons, a disposal that did not look like surrender, but which emphasised the end of the Provisionals’ violent campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LPXKHFXLKVET5N5UXYVYO27JAM","additional_properties":{"_id":"3GM2G5PXBJBMPLYNCY7PWCAE2Q"},"content":"Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity review: Magisterial work on theologies around sex","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3ZTIP7V2SNDJXIBP62YB3BZOOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728485467225},"content":"Beyond Northern Ireland, Harold Good has also done peacebuilding work in numerous other settings, including the Basque Country and Colombia, and his book fluently covers wide territory. It provides some family history and background, and it commendably focuses throughout on the distinctive individuals that are involved in the story. So there are fair-minded and honest chapters on Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness and also Reid (”Ours was a very genuine and special friendship.”)","type":"text"},{"_id":"FQ63YHKOVVD2FJZDXBLP22JALI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728485467226},"content":"Indeed, relationships and trust are at the heart of the tale, as are dignity, forgiveness and dialogue. Good emphasises the importance of being “prepared to put oneself in the shoes of ‘the other’, whoever that might be”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOTXRXTLCVEGRHDWE5ZVXUFYVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728485467227},"content":"The Troubles understandably dominate the book’s story, a conflict which left “a legacy of loss, suffering and mistrust with which we continue to contend today, notwithstanding the epic achievement of the Good Friday [Belfast] Agreement”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FQARUXOXXFDQ7D45X767ZVLSIU","additional_properties":{"_id":"ABDRAXLSO5DB3BUH37GTN6CHUY"},"content":"Well, Holy God by Patsy McGarry: An eternal life as a religious correspondent in turbulent times for Irish Catholicism","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5L33NIYKWRAWZBKAX27VE6QUMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728485467228},"content":"Good’s is a very Methodist story, and he provides some background to that church and its traditions, as well as mentioning some of the other Methodists whose role in making peace in Northern Ireland was important.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMIEYHNBBBELFL7AXBUJSLZNWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728485467229},"content":"The role played by religious divisions in generating conflict is much discussed and often criticised. The part played by religious commitment in limiting conflict and sometimes even in helping bring it to an end is less frequently analysed, but this important book reflects how vital that can prove.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJKECGCMAFDPLFVO7WYXZC65MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728485467230},"content":"<i>Richard English is director of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Richard English"}]},"description":{"basic":"The Rev Harold Good’s memoir illuminates the role of religious commitment in limiting conflict"},"display_date":"2024-10-18T23:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"In Good Time review: Methodist minister casts light on peacebuilding by church","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"AII3KGEET6GE33DN6FY7BIGPTU","auth":{"1":"5274c3bdccb964f7419f353e2717af0351fb4e2338931f0cb38838baebe57d0f"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/AII3KGEET6GE33DN6FY7BIGPTU.jpg"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Books"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/books/review/2024/10/19/in-good-time-review-methodist-minister-casts-light-on-peacebuilding-by-church/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/books","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Books"}}}},{"_id":"WWB5IXXVFBHZLJEF7SFZL43LWQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/18/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"RUIFIXSPEJCGFMYMAEHI6N43EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729164834995},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"T4ZUI5FCMRB3DGX7GLDP3CICIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729164834996},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin</b> THE TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY - 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Cathedral Choir - Ives: Missa Brevis, Caesar: O for a closer walk with God, Mawby: Ave Verum corpus, Preacher: The Revd P.M. Willoughby, B.A. Prebendary of Tymothan. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir Jonathan Swift Commemoration Service - Responses: Radcliffe, Wood in Eb (no.2), Psalm: 104 vv 24-36, Moore: All wisdom cometh from the Lord, Preacher: The Revd P.M. Willoughby, B.A. Prebendary of Tymothan. SUNG MATINS at 9.00 - Monday to Friday. CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XHZHCQV3MFAQNDO3QISVWWRSVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"LDYRGDI7BBBH5J7JEUE6E6N3UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday) with Hymns and Anglican Chant, the Ninteenth Sunday after Trinity. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Access on foot through St Audoen’s Park. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church. The OPW Visitor Centre is open every day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VF5FO36VSVHGJAX3GEEZDHGOGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Eucharist, the Ninteenth Sunday after Trinity, sung by the choristers of St Patricks Cathedral, directed by Stuart Nicholson, accompanied by Robin Shakespeare, organ scholar, followed by refreshments. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7X2K5MFWRCS3LAHD34P2RU52M","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"7AV23NCGRJFKTET2CQG4UWKVU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SZTFXXMJNETFIHIST4PT72LTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YC2GJ2KKTBCXVJSCG7UVHS5AVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"T5MJD5S2NBB3ZDHBJ4XI77INX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"3M3SSD7ENJCPPCWHDJZYIG677Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDZ5J5GHB5EQTGXKTRTAOISLYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSKUQPU56JHJRAEAJAPHL2XURE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"PRRZ6XEQSNBDREWER2WUA6MGI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3PSDNOOFJGUBAFE3FF5ZGM3IM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"N53SDYQPFZGDDJH6R4TFXMSK6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BORJTUU4W5EDFK25YXHWYRV434","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJVQVJ7RFBDX5A44LWC63XDASA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. 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Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"D77PGU7UVNBRFE4XJX6372TQSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"DOTERNSMHFHPFN4572XPHCRM4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning October 19th, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-10-18T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/18/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"NXTHFNY7OVER7E35X367HBWM3Q","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":324,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/6011b1f3-e7e2-4daf-96b0-9fb0ecbbe6d7/versions/1729091382/media/dbf34d789d9033f073e7b47034389a61_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/10/17/god-help-us-all-russell-brand-has-found-religion/","content_elements":[{"_id":"RKOPGYJWNFCVFLBVAFSGQYRG2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151591},"content":"The one thing going for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russell-brand/\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Brand</a> and his strange Christian conversion is that, despite his evident distance from the Kingdom of God and his weak grasp on serious theology, he does in the very least look a bit like Jesus. (At least in the caricature of our imaginations). The substance, if we can call it that, seems to stop here. Brand’s version of Christianity – its closest denominational analogue seems to be evangelism – has little basis in the modern practices of the mainstream church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FRS73C4KZFDVEUWABDPA633NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151592},"content":"Brand has been on quite the journey. He was a small-screen comedian known for his brashness. Then he had a turn as a film star while also trying on the guise of a political activist (he endorsed <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ed-miliband/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Miliband</a> in 2015, and led some anti-austerity protests). Cranking up his messianic aspirations, Brand launched a YouTube channel and began to anxiously rant to millions of followers about a shadowy elite pulling the strings of the world, offering vague and rapturous warnings about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\">Covid-19</a> and vaccines. The downward spiral set in motion by the YouTube conspiracism was turbocharged. Last year a joint investigation by The Times and Channel 4 revealed <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2023/11/14/two-more-complainants-come-forward-with-russell-brand-allegations-bbc-says/\" target=\"_blank\">several women had accused Brand of sexual misconduct or assault</a> – charges he denies. Since then, Brand has found God.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEWWKCZSTFGABL5JFRHXBZ5JTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151593},"content":"Just last week during <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/10/11/hurricane-milton-florida-counts-cost-amid-political-storm/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Milton</a>, Brand gave us an inside look into his faith: “In the middle of this crazy story in Florida [sic: Brand was in Miami, hundreds of miles away from the eye of the storm] ... [it is] worth thinking how the metaphor of the storm affects us all ... a demonstration of the almighty power that is beyond our control ... it helps me to understand that I must listen and watch for Christ.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RKW25FHZBBL7CGZYIBEENX3UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151594},"content":"Since 2023 Brand has been tracing his journey into Christianity. He was baptised in the Thames in April. Since then, he has been seen performing a Baptism himself in a river and his underwear. And more recently he has taken to his knees to pray on stage with fellow members of the new American right, first <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tucker-carlson/\" target=\"_blank\">Tucker Carlson</a> and then <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jordan-peterson/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Peterson</a>, in front of packed out arenas. The Brand of 2015 is a long way away – in 2024 he asked God to shine a light on the “dark forces” operating the “deep state”. His latest act of piety is selling “amulets” for £180 to ward off nasty things like wifi and ill-defined bad vibes (I’m listening!).","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZU2SJWPPJGURDJVZOXFLCQFCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151595},"content":"Brand has company. Peterson – a professor who became the first public intellectual to sell out the O2 – is an agnostic who happily had Brand pray onstage with him. Carlson has long been associated with the Christian right. Both men are kingpins of a new version of American conservatism – and use the language and guise of religion to spread their word. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-rogan/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan</a> – a podcaster who averages more than 10 million listens per episode – has increasingly leant in to conversations about faith. These men do not share a homogenous ideology but they emerge from a similar place. And religion has become shorthand for belonging to their group. A cynic might say that Brand was looking for an in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRA5UFXDWFHFLGU7YMFIJ5QNII","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151596},"content":"But there are plenty of strands to the new religious revival. The aesthetics of Catholicism – rosary beads, ermine, images of the Virgin Mary – have been wielded as fashion statements since the late 2010s. What was once intended to be transgressive has fully made its home in the mainstream: the Met Gala theme in 2018 was Fashion and the Catholic Imagination; Fleabag’s “hot priest” will be among the 2010′s most memorable characters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"II4FVD77UBDWRCZXETJ7GIITTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151597},"content":"Now <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sally-rooney/\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Rooney</a>’s best selling novel Intermezzo finds religion as its central theme. And, the current Pope adopts a liberal bent (defended as a survival mechanism for the declining church). Given all of this we might expect some shift in the data, some proof that all of this religiosity means something. But there has been no accompanying flurry of young people re-embracing the church. This version of the Catholic revival – a distant land from Carlson, Brand and Rogan – is clearly skin deep.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6G4O557CIJDB5OA3TPGN3N5D7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"3AJ5EXT5FJAK7MYSZEZDWWIHJU"},"content":"Sally Rooney: ‘There is something Christian about my work, even if I would not describe myself as religious’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WY42BBA2AFGS7E255B4PYF6WWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151598},"content":"But there is something that links them both. Without the architecture provided by a culturally religious society, the Christian God quickly becomes a cipher for a political identity. In Brand’s case that’s membership to the American right-wing guru class. In the mainstream adoption of Catholicism it’s something different: proof of membership to a liberal class that no longer fears God but can instead mock his pieties. Faith takes a back seat to the political signalling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QFFRAG2V7NCXTAVBBPH36UEVFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729083151599},"content":"This might not matter much at all: Christianity has been around for some time and I suspect it will weather this particular trend cycle, no matter Russell Brand’s risible public display. And these Christian gurus will find a new cause celebre in no time at all. Meanwhile, there are wifi-warding amulets to be sold and American megachurches to be attended. God may or may not be there.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Finn McRedmond"}},"name":"Finn McRedmond"}]},"description":{"basic":"Christianity has been around for some time and will weather this particular trend cycle, no matter Russell Brand’s risible public display. 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Wharton, <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., M.Phil. Prebendary of Dunlavin 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG – sung by the Cathedral Choir with the Past Choristers Association - Responses: Clucas, Stanford in Bb, Psalm 84, Bairstow: Blessed city, heavenly Salem, Preacher: The Revd G.V. Wharton, <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., M.Phil. Prebendary of Dunlavin SUNG MATINS at 9.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 – Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECNRWVX5MFG4LE4YQRUADNQMMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181435},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"4EPZMFJCWRADLME2ESRSWKOR5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181436},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday) with Hymns and Anglican Chant, the Ninteenth Sunday after Trinity. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Access on foot through St Audoen’s Park. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church. The OPW Visitor Centre is open every day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VMMTVUW75HKJGVV5WH4WTPXQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181437},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Eucharist, the Ninteenth Sunday after Trinity, sung by the choristers of St Patricks Cathedral, directed by Stuart Nicholson, accompanied by Robin Shakespeare, organ scholar, followed by refreshments. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7LWO74K4NBA5DDILDL7SLE5CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181438},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"WTKOMWF3FJHHTAGPMOANTBQEEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181439},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"T5ZQ3TSQYFF4NDCNS4QUSAPGTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181440},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XF6IVJZQVNBMBCNEC5KDNNE4BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181441},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUB2SUIXQVGGLJXDGLWYQCKBYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181442},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"7SS2Y2DUEBDHJDRHZQWJTURJZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181443},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GYYPYQ2AHFAYVHBJHN4EWMMP5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181444},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJH7SWRXUNBM7DMMJVR7PESX5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181445},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"33FW63U27ZGYTIDMYF3IYROMPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181446},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTMIWSMJENHJZLOQUNLJWEAWA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181447},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHKI4YMZRJFLZCNS3DPTZ3P2RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181448},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYFXA7QMDREUXHQ7JAAO5DZ3B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181449},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWSYUJXGO5H7BAFZABQKCRVCPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181450},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBOETNTX3FFNNIY5CYRAAOOZTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181451},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"4Q5Y66WU25DEPH6EPTUOEXQAMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181452},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DXTPQDOZNGJXF3OO22UBVB4LM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181453},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire</b> Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSNJOFYKRBCSLJ3F5HIEPJNFMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181454},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"LKIEHY5F6VBNPHMCP2EVATUP54","additional_properties":{"_id":1728647181455},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, October 12th, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-10-11T18:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/11/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"SMLQUVTGORDZJCP2BE7ULGGPLI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":361,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/6f857724-98e8-4f5b-935c-33461cd8e54a/versions/1728055826/media/bea510a156c69196a8167f5ecc372142_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/10/06/synod-on-synodality-aims-at-missionary-outreach-to-the-excluded-and-marginalised/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SRKSC6KRHFDCHJYDBAKOV75PE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333313},"content":"Synod Round Two. This month, 368 delegates from around the world are gathering in Rome for the second session of the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality. This three-year process has drawn global attention for its discussions around key teachings to do, for instance, with LGBT+ inclusion, women’s ordination and married priests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NIQPUQUI3ZG6TGVOTZM2GSWMNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333314},"content":"An openness to listening to a variety of lived experiences has certainly marked a new direction for the Catholic Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIZQCFAIS5DQFCU25M4QOURLG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333315},"content":"The focus for this second session is clear: how to be a synodal church in mission. At the heart of this process is Pope Francis’s vision of the church as a welcoming home for all – his message “todos, todos, todos” (everyone, everyone, everyone) passionately delivered to more than 1.5 million young people at World Youth Day in Lisbon last year, signifies a new missionary awakening in the church’s self-perception, and an openness to listening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDQ7IFSL4NBF3PHJNCDTLTHRTY","additional_properties":{"_id":"75XTQS5JHJG57E7IDUOXU5ZE4U"},"content":"Is something being lost to economics with the rejection of religion?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NIJEFHT75VCQDLLXSZZVZQFOPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333316},"content":"No longer a reductive vision of the church as an institution where authority is concentrated among clergy, but rather the church as a community where every baptised person (lay, religious, and ordained) is actively involved in its mission, Synodality, meaning “journeying together”, is about making this vision a reality.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GUPOGNIUSNC7PAQ4U5GKNJJKPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333317},"content":"The church wants to foster a missionary outreach also to the peripheries of society – especially to those who feel excluded or marginalised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SROIXD5UFBCNP7XUN3U4PQAAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"FMUGP6XBPFGTTFDYX232NOGC4U"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"6CUQXA64ERGDLAFGL4ZL6UIWCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333318},"content":"The Working Document (Instrumentum Laboris) for this second session poses key questions: how can we all be co-responsible based on our baptismal calling? What needs to change in church structures to facilitate full participation where each person shares their unique gifts for the common good? How can power and authority within the church be exercised as a form of service?","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4VMKIRWDJFYVK7VY5IX2AI2TQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333319},"content":"The process leading to this session has been one of extensive global consultation and conversation. In Ireland, for instance, the National Synthesis presented to Rome in 2022 reflected the voices within 26 dioceses, religious congregations, and a broad range of lay movements. An openness to listening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLVX76V4JFFXFK5UI5B6HKTFZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333320},"content":"Among the challenges raised for handing on the faith was the need for healing and hope especially among those who have suffered abuse by church personnel and in church institutions, and the desire for greater inclusivity in the church’s mission (for the full text, see <a href=\"http://www.synod.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">synod.ie</a>).","type":"text"},{"_id":"XGOJWHN2TVATZKBZRNFEDMVUEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333321},"content":"Last year’s session of the universal Synodal Assembly was a time to listen to all that surfaced worldwide from the consultations. While some of the more controversial issues named last year are not on this year’s agenda, they have not been “shelved”. Ten commissions have been established to explore further many of these issues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYEJI4LT55C3LM5OMGLW3R2GFY","additional_properties":{"_id":"T25OU2ADBJCVPCKTT6JUDGLAGY"},"content":"Rite and Reason: Olympics opening event was about defiance, not inclusiveness","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XR57S6TOJFHQBDU5NRXOQEEWCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333322},"content":"Prominent theologian Dr Miriam Wijlens views the synodal journey as a “learning by doing” approach that takes experience seriously. However, it is not without its challenges. As one participant in a regional meeting in Ireland put it, “Now we’re being told it’s over to us laypeople, but after centuries when it was so different with clerics at the centre, it is as if we’re simply being thrown something we’re not prepared for.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLAYCLRDGRCJDFHUDFPBP6ERUA","additional_properties":{"_id":"H3NYKCOCP5F5JG65BVBCTSNY3M"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"36H6FFHYHJCJ3NQVP5FBU7OKXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333323},"content":"This sentiment highlights the difficulty of shifting from a deeply ingrained cleric-centred system to a more participatory and collaborative approach. In his opening talk at this year’s assembly, Pope Francis observed that it is certainly not meant to be a matter of replacing one with the other. Rather, laity, women and men of religious communities and movements and clergy are being asked to work together.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B55RDI5OSREJPCWR56IXVFIDIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333324},"content":"The “Conversation in the Spirit” methodology introduced during last year’s session, encourages deep listening and respectful sharing, ensuring that all voices are heard. It expresses an openness to listening. This method aims to foster a more inclusive and collaborative decision-making process, one that reflects the diversity of the church family.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JKRPMJQHWZHJLOVNDTFXILZXNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333325},"content":"Synodal reform is not just about internal church restructuring – it’s not meant to be a navel-gazing exercise. It’s about becoming a more effective witness to the Gospel in a rapidly changing world, one that is confronting issues of identity and globalisation, technological advancements, political upheavals and future uncertainties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFVXJBSZFFBQ7MZ5IXWFKQMIRA","additional_properties":{"_id":"LAZZFF5PLVATBP6WZE5OQJAIK4"},"content":"Spiritual inspiration after a nasty review drove me to write one of my best songs","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"O4TYOBCZZRF7TGYD5VX6AW5QCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333326},"content":"Fostering deeper relationships between people, cultures and nations is a need everywhere. The Prague theologian Thomas Halik suggests the synodal process has the potential “to inspire the quest for a new quality of relationship” in a world that often feels fractured and disconnected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FGR66B6WBRFSFIVOTUYJVSFJ24","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333327},"content":"The synodal process will take time; it’s a new way of “doing” church. As the delegates in Rome embark on the second session of the Synodal Assembly, unrealistic expectations of radical institutional change will need to be tempered. But the Spirit is always the God of surprises.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K5ANZ64IHZAOTLO66QNURMNMCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333328},"content":"Words of the late Cardinal Martini’s offer perspective: “Christianity is only at the beginning.” The synodal process, with all its complexities and challenges, represents a new step along the journey – one that is grounded in communion, participation, and mission. These are the three words that have marked recent years of worldwide consultation and conversations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RK6HKTPJVBENVDX6XBUL3KJ6RE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333329},"content":"We have been listening, so it is now for us to act on what we have heard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ZUEN44TCZB5JJBEMCSIW24SDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728052333330},"content":"<i>Dr Brendan Leahy is Bishop of Limerick. He and Bishop of Down and Connor Alan McGuckian SJ are representing the Irish Catholic Bishops at the Synod on Synodality in Rome</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Bishop Brendan Leahy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rite & Reason: This month, 368 delegates from around the world are gathering in Rome for the second session of the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality"},"display_date":"2024-10-05T23:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Synod on Synodality aims at missionary outreach to the excluded and marginalised ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"NLM4JOLAR7QQ3OMKHRYTJVOBFA","auth":{"1":"cbadce283db3ad64196785b7fd2008bcdd52659c3df84cd9d1e3c3ed988bee90"},"focal_point":{"x":2573,"y":2325},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NLM4JOLAR7QQ3OMKHRYTJVOBFA.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/10/06/synod-on-synodality-aims-at-missionary-outreach-to-the-excluded-and-marginalised/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"TEGDADQJORDANH7RS66QWJDEK4","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/04/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"G5B33XUMMJE3TLSERLRDTNUVXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727973166960},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"EKEKHTAHVNFE3I4GG7KMHVRS5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1727973166961},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland</b> THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY - 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Lay Vicars Choral - Palestrina: Missa Aeterna Christi munera, Psalm: 26, Byrd: Ego sum panis vivius. 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Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church. The OPW Visitor Centre is open every day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"75FQEMBLGBB4NCDDLRLA4EU4D4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727973166965},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Eucharist, the Ninteenth Sunday after Trinity, sung by the choristers of St Patricks Cathedral, directed by Stuart Nicholson, accompanied by Robin Shakespeare, organ scholar, followed by refreshments. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEWW2HQS5JH33FTPUW6QWRBKII","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJ5SSR5NWFDRVKR2GA7UBMMMGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FBPE5JV52RC7VMS3OC7VB4V5FI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLYJBVS62VCS3BE23G5LWRQNHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVS5NYNXRFBDJLDAJFRV4E4ZME","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"XXULN4CRDFAPBC7E7XIT2OYVS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYHPWD7QIFAY3A3MQOM3DRIBIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLL43KKGS5DPNGD6BQWWYHZEE4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSYTT4UGCJDHTPETH7TJM2U45M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"L36LWKBADVHGPK53GOBKYR3RK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOCNN7RWJJBNTNF4WR4S4HBCNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGAVGQW325FYBM7BBRSAKNUL74","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQAUKMLWSJGPBIMHG3L6NNSWYM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. 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Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XHWOZWPHAVARVE4N57YFYGMN7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1727973166966},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"64UO7LUOHFEPXAC3ZRWGOAHAQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727973166967},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\" target=\"_blank\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, October 5th, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-10-04T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/04/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"OGPATX4TWBE37CMIQXP36V2QFY","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/09/27/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5NFNQQGNWBETRFSC75SSUQCDUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"CVKGB2ELHNGTDAMYBAU3UHP4E4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland</b> THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY - 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Cathedral Choir - Howells: Collegium Regale, Psalm: 139 vv 1-5, Campbell: And there was war in heaven. Preacher: The Revd M.D. Gardner, M.A., Prebendary of Maynooth. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir- Responses: Radcliffe, Howells: Collegium Regale, Psalm 142, Sermon in Music: Howells: A sequence for Saint Michael. SUNG MATINS at 9.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 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The OPW Visitor Centre is open every day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNA72SJGCZEEZNY7H4BGCCQ6GU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 29th September - The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. 10.30am Pets’ Service. 9.00am Holy Communion 1.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QF5BBDPJFVDIJK5GEM4KQQDUF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"OO27C33TEBCF3FQQG4QI6HHHWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"STVE3FAIWNDVVIZBXS42AMI77U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Learn more","type":"text"},{"_id":"FBLJPC2RKRB2DFYW74BAZB7NJM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RP6VOCJF4VGBNFCQ33MR6D76OA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQYNYV5ZVFGJXMAI2SMO7H47FI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTZ6XMHQ5RHG3BWNHM4YA264C4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NMKQOGMACNHDTK4LLPRBRPOROY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GBLQTIRUJVC3LKJNCXRTIZQ7LU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"CTHSE3QLMJGQ7OHRJMYMH5JA5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HC3MEPPTDRBOTBAY2D4M3RW26Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BDXXL43H5JHOZOEI5GERXLJ4YQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4T25CJ6P5FCZBHRJ4KOY6JF5BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDSWERD3M5FSTE26H5K2CE55DE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2EI7SEDERAAXK37RZ6QKCWBHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"XIT2IC3NORBIDDIQFPNHYLIY7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. 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It also led him to the generous conclusion that “we should not be surprised that those slow-moving conglomerations of myriad opinions known as Churches have found it agonisingly hard to react coherently to questions they had not previously asked, let alone answered”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7S6LKVCIIZBFTGG52YGG4R2VXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726147062316},"content":"All that said, he notes that there is “no such thing as a single Christian theology of sex. 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