Diocesan News
Finding Hope in Advent
St Patrick’s, Greystones, and the Light House
The first of Dublin & Glendalough’s videos for Advent 2021 explores the link that has grown between St Patrick’s Parish and School in Greystones and the Light House which supports homeless people. The Light House on Pearse Street in Dublin 2 is run by Dublin Christian Mission.
During the early days of lockdown in 2020, the principal of St Patrick’s National School, Rachel Harper, began volunteering in the Light House. She had previously volunteered with Tiglin’s No Bucks Café. This bus used to travel into the city centre to serve hot meals to homeless people and when that could no longer operate it moved its services to the Light House.
Over time the school community and parishioners along with the wider community in Greystones began to support the project leaving donations of food and in the run up to Christmas last year serving up more than 300 Christmas dinners. Rachel’s work with the Light House has been recognised with a Local Hero award from Greystones Municipal District, part of the County Wicklow Volunteer Awards.
Rachel Harper and Canon David Mungavin tell how reaching out to support others has been a lightbulb moment for the parish and school.
See the school website – www.stpns.ie – for information on how to support their work for the Light House this Christmas. For more information on the Light House, see: www.dcmlive.ie/the–light–house
The second video will be available to view this weekend and focuses on Christ Church Cathedral’s outreach to newcomers as a Cathedral of Sanctuary. It will also be available on the Dublin & Glendalough YouTube channel each weekend.
For further information please contact:
Diocesan Communications Officer, Dublin & Glendalough
087 235 6472
Mrs Lynn Glanville
dcodublin@gmail.com