Christmas Services
We will have a carol service on Sunday 22nd December at 5pm, with mass immediately afterwards.
Our Christmas Mass will be celebrated on 26th December, on the feast of St. Stephen.
Christmas Mass: 26th December, 12pm noon.
You’ll understand this is due to Father’s availability in combination with ferry operations.
Other Christmas events to look out for are:
- Kirkwall Christmas Tree Lighting
Kirkwall’s Christmas tree – a gift from Norway – will be lit up on Saturday 30 November. As in previous years, the Christmas tree – which will stand on the Kirk Green outside St Magnus Cathedral – has been gifted by the county of Vestland in Norway, the county formed by the merger of Sogn og Fjordane and Hordaland, which has gifted the tree for many years. The tree lighting ceremony will be officiated by Convener Graham Bevan, with guest speaker His Excellency Tore Hattrem, Norwegian Ambassador to the UK.
The Kirkwall City Pipe Band is due to start playing outside the Cathedral at 4.45pm, followed by the Saint Lucy procession at 5.00pm.
A service will then take place inside the Cathedral, following which the tree outside will be lit at 6.10pm.
Vestland County Council has arranged for two Norwegian musicians – Alexander Aga Røynstrand, fiddle, and Berit Opheim, one of Norway’s most renown folk singers – to perform at the Kirkwall event. - December 13th, at the East Kirk – Kirkwall Council of Churches are planning another Advent Nativity Evening based on Les Misérables. Friday 3rd December 2024.
- [Possible further announcement pending]
