AT YOUR SERVICE - 16 MAY 2021

At Your Service

Sunday, 16 May 2021 - 30 minutes

For the past sixteen years, Praying the Keeills Week has offered eight days of varied walks, talks, coach tours and times of fellowship - all in the glorious Manx countryside - exploring, with the help of well-informed guides - our Island's ancient keeill sites. Keeills are Christian chapels built on the Isle of Man between the 8th and 12th centuries. The earliest ones were small, and built of earth. Later they were made of stone, and were larger. It's believed that there were around 200 keeills, of which visible remains of only about 35 can be seen today. They had a variety of uses - family chapels, wayside shrines, places where a priest would rest whilst travelling round the Island, are a tangible link with our rich Celtic heritage. Some had a walled graveyard around them, and others were built near a well. Many can be found in some of the Island's most beautiful scenery , and were described by our ancestors as 'thin places' where we can draw closer to God. Prayer and meditation were important to those who worshipped in and around the keeills - and these ancient places of peace and tranquility offer us a chance to step aside from there busy-ness of life, and rediscover what we may have lost.

For the full programme of events during Keeills Week (22 - 29 May 2021) visit the website - www.prayingthekeeills.org
Only one event is chargeable - the Wednesday night coach tour (booking essential - see the website)
All other events are free and there is no need to book - just turn up!

And as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to escalate, we hear from Gemma Simmonds CJ - a sister of the Congregation of Jesus who lived and worked in Jerusalem, and discovered a most powerful and unexpected peace initiative. That also has a website - www.tentofnations.org

Plus there's Celtic prayer songs from folk duo CAIM - and notice board news too.

To add events to our AYS notice board, and to choose music for future programmes, email me - judithley@manxradio.com

AT YOUR SERVICE - 16 MAY 2021

At Your Service

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