The celebration of Easter stretches well beyond a weekend: fifty days, in fact, a week of weeks!
The journey towards Easter that started in Lent, intensified with the Services of Holy Week, culminating with the vigils on Easter Eve or at Dawn on Easter Day.
Palm Sunday
- Branches held aloft to provide a canopy for people leaving the church.
- No weather for Donkeys
- Reading of The Passion by the Parish Drama Group in Carrigaline.
- Leap
Maundy Thursday
- The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral of Saint Fachtna, Rosscarbery, Co Cork with the Bishop and the preacher (l-r) Canon Alan Marley, Archdeacon Adrian Wilkinson, the Bishop, the Rev Dr Russ Parker, Dean Christopher Peters, and Canon Eithne Lynch.
- Clergy and lay chaplains collect the Holy Oils for reception in parish churches and chaplaincies at liturgies on Maundy Thursday evening.
- Readers and Clergy with the Bishop after the Service
Good Friday
Easter Eve
- Mallow
- Mallow
- Carrigaline
- Carrigaline
- Carrigaline
- Carrigaline
Easter Dawn
- Sunup, Rosscarbery
- Sunup, Rosscarbery
- Easter ecumenical dawn in Monkstown
Easter Ecumenism
- Easter ecumenical dawn in Monkstown
- Easter ecumenical dawn in Monkstown
- Easter ecumenical dawn in Monkstown
- Easter ecumenical dawn in Monkstown
- Easter ecumenical dawn in Monkstown
Easter Day
- Easter Chicks in Carrigaline
- Easter Garden in Blarney
- Easter Chicks in Frankfield
- Easter Garden
- Easter Flowers in Frankfield
- Easter Cross in Frankfield
- Easter Garden in Blarney
- Easter Garden in Blarney
- Easter Eggs for Women’s Refuge
- Easter Eggs for Women’s Refuge