Holy Week in St Columb’s Cathedral

This evening, (Wednesday) the worship will take the form of a service of healing with the laying-on-of-hands and with special prayers for the sick. On Thursday evening, Maundy Thursday, at 1930 hrs the Holy Communion will be celebrated in recognition that it was on this evening, the night before He died, that our Lord instituted the Sacrament in the Upper Room.

On Good Friday the Dean and Canon John Merrick will conduct a special service, “An Hour At The Cross” between 1400 and 1500 hrs followed by a short act of worship attended by the boy Choristers, parishioners and friends at the graves of Archbishop William Alexander and his wife, Cecil Frances, in the City Cemetery. Everyone msot welcome to attend.

On Easter Eve, April 7th, the service of The Litany and Ante-Communion will take place in the Bishop William Alexander Chapel in the Cathedral at 10.30am.

Services on Easter Day will be as follow: 8am Holy Communion (Order 1); 11am Festival Choral Eucharist; 4pm Choral Evensong.

Dr Morton extends a warm invitation to all who would like to come along to any of these services.

Friday 20 April at 7.30 pm is a date for the diary for all music lovers when the world-renowned international concert organist Carlo Curley will return to St Columb’s Cathedral for what will be a hugely entertaining programme of easy listening music on the Wells-Kennedy organ. Carlo, who is an American now based in England but who travels the world giving recitals on some of the top organs, promotes and explains the organ and the pieces he is playing in a way which engages totally with his audience. He demonstrates the organ as the ‘king of instruments’ with its sound range from being barely audible to it being a ‘roaring lion’! Carlo was last in the Cathedral in October 2006 when the organ was dedicated after extensive restoration and enlargement making it one of the largest organs in Ireland. That night 700 people attended. For more information telephone 028 7126 7313.