25.05.2020
Christ Church Cathedral Seeks Your Help – Make Paper Dove Prayers for St Columba’s Day
Christ Church Cathedral is hoping to be filled with paper dove prayers to mark St Columba’s Day (June 9). And they are seeking help from people throughout Dublin & Glendalough to make this happen.
St Columba is known as ‘the dove of the church’. His name, Colum, means dove. As a child he was so committed to his Christian faith that he earned the nickname ‘Columcille’ or ‘dove of the church’.
The cathedral had planned to have a family activity around the time of St Columba’s Day where visitors would make paper dove prayers in honour of Columba.
“As with so many plans, Covid–19 has forced us to be more creative!” explains Dean’s Vicar, the Revd Abigail Sines. “We still hope to gather many ‘paper dove prayers’ but will need to do this from a distance instead, with people posting in their ‘paper dove prayers’ to the cathedral.”
She adds: “We hope that parishes, schools, Sunday clubs and Messy Churches across Dublin and Glendalough will take part. We would love to see the cathedral filled with colourful ‘paper dove prayers’! We will hold a livestream prayer service (with contributions in both English and Irish) at 12.00 on St Columba’s day (via our normal cathedral webstream and Facebook live) when all the ‘paper dove prayers’ received will be on display”.
A video with an explanation of the project and instructions for making paper dove prayers is below. To be included, ‘paper dove prayers’ must be received in the cathedral by Monday June 8. Post them to Abigail Sines, Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch Place, Dublin 8.
St Columba’s Day Paper Dove Prayers from Christ Church Cathedral Dublin on Vimeo.