Diocesan News
Students breathe new life into historic city centre church With ‘ONE Dublin’ Gospel music Services
A group of visionary and energetic university students from across Dublin have come together to re–establish regular worship in St Thomas’s Church of Ireland Church, which stands at the gateway of O’Connell Street into Dublin’s North East Inner City.
Established first in 1758 and then rebuilt and uniquely paid for by the Irish Free State Government after its destruction in the Civil War of 1922, the historic Anglican church on Cathal Brugha Street lies in an area which the current Government acknowledges has suffered from ‘decades of under–investment’.
The Student Gospel Music Services, called ‘ONE Dublin’, begin on Sunday 21st October at 7.30pm. Music will be led by Discovery Gospel Choir and worship and preaching will be led by members of the Anglican Chaplaincy Team at Third Level (ACT3), a network of Church of Ireland Chaplains working in Dublin Universities.
Matthew Hewston, Chairperson of Dublin City University’s ‘Kingdom Cafe’, says, “‘ONE Dublin’ is probably best described as a ‘movement’, a means of harnessing the passion of students to really make a change in Dublin 1. Its big vision is to bring unity to Dublin’s divisions and see our capital city flourish in a new way.”
The Revd Rob Jones, Chaplain in Dublin Institute of Technology and chairperson of ACT3, says, “It’s been amazing to see the transformative impact that students can make to local communities and the city as a whole. ‘ONE Dublin’ will reflect and encourage that dynamic with uplifting and energising Gospel Music and Praise.”
‘ONE Dublin’ Services will take place on Sunday 21st October (Harvest), Sunday 18th November (Remembrance) and Sunday 9th December (Advent) from 7.30–9.00pm in St Thomas’s Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin 1.
For further information please contact:
Diocesan Communications Officer, Dublin & Glendalough
087 235 6472
Mrs Lynn Glanville
dcodublin@gmail.com