Hundreds expected to take part in Eucharistic Procession from Long Tower to city centre in Derry on St. Brigid’s Day

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00:00Greetings from the Diocese of Derry, the wonderful Diocese of Derry.

00:06On the feast of St Bridget, February the 1st,

00:09the University of the Church doesn't just remember St Bridget, our national co-patron,

00:14it also is the feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus, Candlemas Day.

00:18Jesus, the light for the nations, as we hear in the Gospel.

00:24This year, on the feast of St Bridget, a group of people, good lay people,

00:30led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, are having a Eucharistic procession

00:35at the beginning of this year, this Jubilee year, to say,

00:38Lord, we want your light to shine in the world.

00:41We want you to enable us to be salt to the earth and light to the world.

00:45So we invite people around the Diocese to join in at the Long Tower Church

00:49at one o'clock on Saturday, the 1st of February, for a Eucharistic procession into the city centre.

00:54If you're living in Derry, come and join us.

00:56If you're living somewhere else, join in your own place.

00:59Wherever you are, around the country or around the world,

01:02make this a day of prayer when we proclaim Jesus as the light to the nations.

01:07When we say, Jesus, you are Lord.

01:09Jesus, you can bring healing and hope.

01:11You can bring mercy for Father to all those who are so hurting, locally and universally.

01:18Make this a day of prayer.

01:19Make this a day of celebration.

01:21Make this a day of hope.

01:22Because the grace of God wants to be poured over our hurting, angry, fighting, lonely, painful world.

01:30And wants to offer the balm of his mercy, that we all might know the love of the Father

01:35and know ourselves as loved individually by that Father, wherever we are in our own journey.

01:40Make February 1st, Saturday February 1st, a day when you say,

01:46I want to join with the people of the Diocese of Derry, from the Long Tower Church in Derry,

01:51or wherever you're following us from, as a time of prayer for renewal and healing in our world.

01:56That's why Jesus came, to be good news for the poor, to build the Kingdom of God.

02:01Let it begin with me.

02:03God bless you all.

02:04Looking forward to having your participation that day.

02:07Saturday, February 1st, 1pm, GMT at the Long Tower,

02:14wherever you are in your own country, in your own home.

02:17God bless you.