The Inaugural Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will take place on Thursday 18th January 2025 at 8pm in the Abbey Presbyterian Church, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1.

This is organized by the multi-denominational Dublin Council of Churches (DCC), which includes Friends.

It is the custom of the DCC organizers to alternate venues annually between churches of the Roman Catholic Church and churches of ‘other’ denominations (including the family of Protestant churches, Orthodox churches, and Friends and others from the dissenting tradition), and to arrange for the main speaker to be from a tradition other than that of the hosting church.

Accordingly, the DCC is pleased to confirm that the speaker for the 2025 ecumenical celebration will be Bishop Donal Roche, Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, who will speak on the theme ‘Do you believe this?’ (See attached poster).

This year’s service has been prepared by the ecumenical monastery of brothers and sisters in Bose, Northern Italy. As we celebrate 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea, this worship service has at its heart the Nicene Creed and we are invited to reflect on the story of Martha’s confession of faith in Jesus as narrated in John 11:17-27.