07.11.2025
2025–2026 Diocesan Cycle of Prayer Available Now
The new Church year begins on Advent Sunday, November 30, and so too begins a new Cycle of Prayer for the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough.
Through our Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, which is compiled each year by Canon Mark Gardner, we invite you to pray for every parish and clergyperson in these United Dioceses, every chaplaincy and all of the mission agencies, individuals and organisations the Church of Ireland works through in this place. We also invite you to pray for parishes and organisations in our partner diocese, the Diocese of Jerusalem.
In his forward to this year’s edition, Archbishop Michael Jackson highlights the importance of the Cycle of Prayer.
“Speaking out the names of our Clergy and our Readers, our parishes and our people in one another’s churches Sunday by Sunday and week by week is important because it helps to connect us with one another. This gives us a belonging that is bigger than ourselves and our preoccupations with what we are doing locally,” he said adding that this was particularly important for the coming year as the dioceses enters its Year of Mission.
The Cycle of Prayer also offers the opportunity to pray for the Archbishop, clergy and people of our partners in the Diocese of Jerusalem, which Archbishop Jackson notes, gives them a sense of belonging to a world outside their own troubled region in the Land of the Holy One.