18.11.2011
Walk of Light: Hope in Hard Times
The annual Walk of Light will take place on Sunday 20 November 2011 from 16.00–18.00. Entitled ‘Hope in Hard Times’ this inter–church journey will walk from St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street to St Teresa’s Clarendon Street ending at the Methodist Centenary Church, Leeson Park. Come and join us. All are most welcome. The walk takes place in cooperation with the Church of Ireland, Korean, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox congregations in the area.
You are invited to come with us for the entire journey. Likewise you are more than welcome to simply join us for part of the journey. The anticipated end of the concluding prayer is approximately 6.00pm. For more information about the Dublin Council of Churches visit www.dublinchurches.ie.
You are most warmly invited to join this little ecumenical journey in Dublin on Sunday, 20th November beginning at 4.00 pm. For the seventh year in a row people from all walks of life are coming together for this venture. As the churches prepare for a “new year” with the com ing of Advent we see this journey to gether as a simple sign of our belonging together as Christians. We set out to gether and declare publicly, as Christmas approaches, that Christ is the light that has come into the world. With the Walk of Light we set out on our journey through the time of Advent towards the celebration of the amaz ing reality of God coming onto the world as a vulnerable human being in diffi cult times. We pray that the Holy Spirit may touch our hearts as we join with each other along the road. The motto for this year’s journey is Hope in Hard Times. We explore this theme as we are visiting the three host churches along the way. We stay for a short act of worship in the style of the congregation visited and then walk to the next church.
ITINERARY — Sunday, 20th November 2011 4.00pm: Welcome and Opening Prayer in St. Ann’s Church of Ireland Church, Dawson Street Followed at 4.30pm by a walk to St Teresa’s Carmelite Roman Catholic Church, Clarendon Street (approx. arrival time: 4.45pm) Followed at 5.05pm by a walk to Methodist Centenary Church, Leeson Park (approx. arrival time: 5.30pm) Concluding prayer at Methodist Centenary Church followed by light refreshments at 6.00pm.