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Easter Day sonrise services in Dublin and Glendalough
EASTER DAY SONRISE SERVICES IN DUBLIN AND GLENDALOUGH
For many Christians Easter Day, 11 April, will begin with a Sonrise or Daybreak Service at approximately 6.00 am. when people of different traditions will gather together in the open for a service and following it return to a parish centre for breakfast.
During the service it is traditional for those churches who use a Paschal or Easter candle to bring their new candles and light them from a fire which is lit in the open. This symbolises that just as Jesus is the one light for all, so the light which is brought to the different churches, originates from the one flame, shared by all.
In Dublin there will be Sonrise services at the following places:
HOWTH SUMMIT
The annual Ecumenical Dawn Service will take place at 6.00 am followed by breakfast in the Pastoral Centre Baldoyle.
KILLINEY HILL
A number of churches of different traditions, including St Patricks Dalkey, Killiney/Ballybrack and Holy Trinity Killiney, will gather together for the annual Sonrise Service at 6.34 am. followed by breakfast in Holy Trinity Church hall.
SANDYMOUNT STRAND
Churches from different traditions in the Booterstown, Sandymount and Mount Merrion areas will participate in a Sonrise Service on Sandymount Strand at 6.00 am.
LEADMINES CHIMNEY MINEHILL
Kilternan Parish will participate in an ecumenical Daybreak Service at 6.00 am
ST DOULAGHS CHURCH BALGRIFFIN
Daybreak Holy Communion at 6.00am. St Doulaghs is a unique building The hermits cell is the oldest part and is said to date from the fifth century when St Doulagh built and inhabited it as its first hermit. The present church was not built until the eleventh century. The church, the refectory and the cell are in perfect condition. Attached to the ancient church is a modern church built in the nineteenth century.
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