AT YOUR SERVICE - 13 JUNE 2021

At Your Service

Sunday, 13 June 2021 - 30 minutes

Agneash Chapel, in the hills above Laxey village, has been a place of prayer and worship for over 1,300 years - since a monk first lived in a keeill (a tiny chapel) built on the boundary wall of the current chapel, in AD690. The present chapel was built in 1857 after 17 years of services being held in nearby cottages. In the 1800's Agneash was in a mining and farming community and often there would be around 200 people at services and events in the tiny chapel.

Numbers are less now, but the chapel still has a dedicated congregation with a deep desire to preserve the 'specialness' of this place. So, Agneash has become the first place on the Isle of Man to be part of the Small Pilgrim Places Network (www.smallpilgrimplaces.org) Small pilgrim places are 'simple, quiet, unpretentious - with the presence of the Divine ......' they can be chapels, ruins, gardens, holy wells ....... A place where (according to Thomas Merton) 'your mind can be idle, forget its concerns, descend into silence and worship in secret'

On today's programme, Reverend Steve Ingrouille (minister at Agneash) and Hilary Simm and Robin Sadler, Agneash residents, reflect on finding God in the natural world, and in 'thin places' like Agneash chapel.

There will be a special coffee morning to 'launch' Agneash as a Small Pilgrim Place, on Saturday 19 June between 10am and 12noon - all are welcome to enjoy hot drinks and home made cakes, and find out more!

Items for the At Your Service Notice Board, and suggestions for hymns you'd like to hear in forthcoming programmes, can be emailed to me - judithley@manxradio.com

AT YOUR SERVICE - 13 JUNE 2021

At Your Service

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