11.04.2014
Newly Confirmed of Sandford and St Philip’s Parishes Lead Sunday Service
The 2014 confirmation class held the Sunday service on March 23 in Sandford Parish Church. We organised the service ourselves with suggestions from Reverend Gyles. We discussed and chose the theme of ‘inclusion and accepting everyone in our society’.
The idea arose after a number of the confirmation class mentioned that the services were not often aimed at our age group and we were given the opportunity to change this. We chose the hymns and wrote the prayers ourselves. The readings chosen were about the inclusion of everyone, and how Jesus never judged others.
The service was led by Robbie Comiskey and Lily Magahy and the address was given on the theme by Jake Kennedy and Jemima Hurley. We played a song called Same Love by Macklemore. This song tells us about a boy who cannot change who he is for anyone even if he tried or wanted to. Robbie Comiskey played his guitar and sang Free by Rudimental and Xavier Altzinger sang the song Angel by Sarah McLachlan. We learned during this experience what is involved in preparing a service and how much work is involved.
There were lots of charities we thought should receive the collection and we chose the Irish Cancer Society. Zanna O’Riordan spoke about the work of ICS.
The service was well received by the congregation and it was nice to get such a good reaction. It was a worthwhile task and gave us all a better understanding of our Church and its importance as we mature.
We would like to thank Reverend Gyles for all her help over the weeks before the service and for guiding us through our Confirmation preparation.
Photo caption: The newly confirmed of Sandford and St Philip’s pictured with their Rector, the Revd Sonia Gyles, following the service they took themselves.