Waiting for Christmas
Dec 24th, 2011 | By Ian Poulton | Category: SpiritualityThey will come - in the parishes, villages and towns of rural Ireland, they will come. Wave upon wave of them, filling spaces empty all year. In the dark of the night or the light of the morning, they will come as if the moment was different from any other.
Last year, the roads were described as impassable, the temperature was minus fifteen. In our little cluster of six Protestant churches with an official Church of Ireland population of just 353, an aggregate of total of 317 attended church. While …