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Rathfarnham parish in Dublin switched off its floodlights on Saturday 29th March from 8.30 – 9.30pm while Rathfarnham Quaker Meeting invited members of local churches to join them in a candle-lit reflection where people were invited to share prayers, readings or thoughts with an environment/Creation theme. The worship began and concluded with cello and violin music and everyone enjoyed Fairtrade refreshments by candle-light afterwards.
As well as switching their lights off on the Saturday evening, Dunkineely and Ardara Methodist churches in Donegal used candles the following morning, picking up on the theme of darkness and light, which is central to much of John’s Gospel. Jesus said, after all, ‘I am the light of the world.”
