Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for Loved Ones – Dublin , Meet the neighbours at TQ – Belfast
Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for Loved Ones
Next Sunday 6 November at 7pm, a quiet and reflective Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for Loved Ones will be held in St Paul’s Church Glenageary Dublin at 7.00 pm.
This service combines silence, readings, Taize chant, hymns, plainchant and choral music sung by the choir in a very moving way to help all present to give thanks and remember family members and friends who have died, whilst at the same time affirming that they, and all the departed are loved by and cared for by God and that one day we will be reunited with them.
During the service the names of those to be remembered are read aloud and a candle is lit and placed on the Holy Table by relatives.
Music includes extracts from Faure’s Requiem, Rutter’s A Clare Benediction and Sibelius Be still my Soul as well as hymns for all to sing. The choir is directed by Derek Verso with David Connolly at the organ and the service is lead by the rector, Revd Gary Dowd.
Meet the neighbours at TQ, Belfast
Unfazed by the mega–celebrities descending on Belfast this weekend, the Reverend Chris Bennett, chaplain at the Dock Church in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter is gathering the neighbours together again…
Chris writes: “It’s all go in the TQ this week… the Odyssey is gearing up for the MTV EMA Awards on Sunday; the back car parks are filled with pop–up marquees, the Premier Inn is ring–fenced by a security barrier, the autograph–hunters and security guards are starting to appear already… it’s going to be HUUGGE!
“It really is fantastic for Belfast that something as big as this is coming here. This weekend, our wee city will be playing host to Queen, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. Never mind that Selena (the host of the show) is too teenyboppy to be on my radar and I had to ask Susan who she was (Susan knew – she’s street) – these people are properly famous! So I for one will happily endure a weekend of traffic jams, impassible city centres and screaming teenagers to hope and pray that the event is a massive success. I’ll try not to mind that people had to audition to be in the audience. (Can you scream? You’re in.) I’ll not be standing outside with my disapproving placards (“Down with this sort of thing!” ”Careful now”). It’s good that it’s here.
“And despite the manic–ness, we’ll still be gathering at the base of the Arc Apartments on Saturday morning from 11–1 for the next Meet The Neighbours event – it’s the first Saturday of the month, there’s coffee to be drunk, traybakes to be eaten and neighbours to be met! Lady Gaga can throw herself at me all she wants; Selena Gomez can pout all she likes; Chris Martin can throw organic produce at me if it makes him feel better; they can’t come. But you can. See you there!
“(oh, all right, they can come. But only if they audition.)”