Easter Celebrations – the Photos – from Cork, Cloyne and Ross | Latest News from the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Easter was celebrated with joy and great variety throughout the parishes of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. Here are some photos:

: Douglas Churches Together share breakfast after the Easter Dawn Ecumenical Service at the Scripture Garden, Cork Methodist Church.

: Church of St James, Mallow

: Loving those Easter chicks in Cork, Cloyne and Ross

: Easter chicks made an appearance in St John, Monkstown and St Mary, Carrigaline.

: Dawn swim at the Warren Strand, Rosscarbery after the Eucharist

: Easter Eucharist at Dawn on the Warren Strand, Rosscarbery

: Easter Dawns at the Ecumenical Service at The Green Hill, Newcestown, Co Cork

: Ecumenical Dawn Service beside Cork Harbour at Monkstown, Co Cork

: Walking along the seafront at Monkstown, Co Cork singing Exultet!

: Easter Dawn at the Green Hill, Newcestown, Co Cork

: He is risen! Easter cross at St Peter, Bandon.

: The Reverend Tony Murphy at the Easter fire on Easter Eve in St Edmund, Coolkelure.

: Easter Eve at St Edmund, Coolkelure.

: Easter Garden, St Mary, Carrigaline – the children made one each to bring home.

: Easter Flowers

: Reredos and flowers at St Peter, Bandon

: Helen Arnopp carries one of the Easter Gardens at St Mary, Carrigaline

: In Carrigaline and Monkstown, some of the Confirmation Candidates, along with the rector and other parishioners walked from the church in Carrigaline to meet up with a similar group from Our Lady & St John at a point roughly midway between the two churches where the Church of Ireland parishioners presented their neighbours with a gift of an Easter Garden.

: In Carrigaline Union, the children , assisted by the Confirmation Candidates, made an outside Easter Garden.

: Paschal Candle in readiness at St Luke’s Church, Douglas being carried by the Reverend Hazel Minion with the Archdeacon and the parish choir.

: The Paschal Candle and sanctuary at Holy Trinity, Frankfield

: Flowers at Holy Trinity, Frankfield

: Archdeacon Adrian Wilkinson, Father Christopher Fitzgerald, the Reverend Hazel Minion, the Reverend Sarah Marry, the Reverend Bill Mullally, the Reverend Geraldine Gracie and Canon Teddy O’Sullivan all of Douglas Churches Together at Cork Methodist Church on Easter morning.