Coronavirus: Alternatives to church services this Sunday as Covid-19 closes down public worship

Many Presbyterian congregations will broadcast via websites and social media platforms this Sunday, and Moderator Rt Rev Dr William Henry will lead a 45 minutes service from www.presbyterianireland.org and via main church Facebook site from 6am, recorded in his own church Maze Presbyterian, near Lisburn.

Dr Henry said: “While you are not able to meet in that place that has been so familiar to you, that place where God has drawn alongside you, I know that many congregations will be livestreaming their service of worship this weekend.

“[However], if your own church isn’t, we want you to be able to connect with what our own denomination will be putting on the PCI website.”

Church of Ireland online services are listed online at www.ireland.anglican.org03.20.pdf with Methodists services listed at www.irishmethodist.org and Catholic services at www.catholicbishops.ie   

The BBC will hold the Morning Service this Sunday on Radio Ulster/Foyle at 10.15am, while Sounds Sacred will continue to provide listeners with its regular mix of music on Sunday evening, Sunday Sequence continuing on Sunday morning as usual.

Downtown Radio will launch a special ‘Sunday Morning Reflections’ from 7am -10am on Sunday morning on 1026AM frequency and on digital radio. The show will be mainly inspirational music with words of hope from David Gordon and local clergy.

RTE has started to air Mass every weekday at 1030am on RTÉ News Now, with Christian worship every Sunday at 11am, on television and radio.