EASTER: weekend services

The Easter Vigil Mass takes place at the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin tonight at 9.30

The Easter Vigil Mass takes place at the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin tonight at 9.30. Easter Sunday Mass will be celebrated by Archbishop Martin, at 10.30am and noon, in the Church of Divine Mercy, south Lucan. Cardinal Connell will celebrate the 11am Mass tomorrow at the Pro-Cathedral.

Easter Vigil ceremonies begin at Christ Church Cathedral at 9pm tonight while, at 11am tomorrow, there will be a Sung Eucharist. At 3.30pm there will be Choral Evensong. At St Patrick's Cathedral, the Holy Eucharist in the Lady Chapel begins at 8.30am tomorrow and the Festival Eucharist at 11.15am. At 3.15pm there will be Festal Evensong. The Methodist Dublin Central Mission on Abbey Street has its Easter service at 11am tomorrow. Easter Sunday services at Clontarf Methodist Church are at 11.30am and 7pm. Presbyterian Church services at Howth begin at 11.30am tomorrow, Malahide at 10am, and Adelaide Road at 11am.

At the Calvary Christian Centre there will be an Easter Morning service at 10.30am. At the Chinese Gospel Church on Abbey Street, Dublin there will be a Mandrin & Cantonese Morning service at 11.30am. The Dublin West Community Church holds its Easter Morning service at 11am in Castleknock, while the Easter service at St Mark's on Pearse St is at 10.30pm.

The Top Chapel (African Church) on Dublin's Moore Lane holds a service at noon tomorrow. Patsy McGarry