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Ecumenical Prayer at Holy Cross College Church in Dublin

 
A strong perfume of incense greeted people entering the Church for attending the ecumenical prayer in the first World Day of Prayer for all Creation; a beautiful iconostasis served was a fitting backdrop to the Service which was accompanied by instrumental music and beautiful singing. A deep recollection and solemnity in the whole service. During his incisive homily Archbishop Diarmuid Martin underlined the “ecumenicity” of our ecological involvement as Christians.

World-Day-of-Prayer-for-all-Creation-Dublin“As Churches we have often neglected our responsibilities for the protection of creation or have even distorted the true attitude towards the environment”:

Reflection of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

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Ecumenical leaders who attended:

Church of Ireland – Dean Victor Stacey, St Patrick’s Cathedral

Romanian Orthodox – Bishop Ignazi, Fr Raul Simion and Fr Godfrey O’Donnell

Ethiopian Orthodox Church – Abba Yohannes Amsalu

Armenian Orthodox Church – Dr Paul Manook

Antiochene Orthodox Church – Fr John Hickey

Greek Orthodox – Fr Tom Carroll

Russian Orthodox – Fr Mikhail Nasanov

Society of Friends – Rachel Bewley Bateman

Other significant attendees:

Eamonn Meehan – Trócaire
Fiona Murdoch – Eco Congregation
Sr Catherine Brennan – Eco Congregation
Sr Pauline McGrath OP – An Tairseach Dominican Ecology Centre, Wicklow
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