EAMES CALLS FOR SERVICES ON SATURDAY
Eames calls for services on Saturday
By Noel McAdam
CHURCH of Ireland Primate Robin Eames has asked all clergy to arrange local ceremonies on Saturday to show solidarity with the people of Omagh.
He said they should coincide with the planned "act of reflection" in Omagh which will include a silence at 3.10pm - the time last Saturdays bomb exploded.
Dr Eames said that during the day CoI churches should remain open for individual prayers.
Methodist President the Rev David Kerr said a minute's silence to remember the victims of the Omagh bombing would be a "very powerful statement if it were to come from right across our whole country."
Mr Kerr said the call by the four main church leaders for acts of reflection was "responding to a very clear need for people to grieve and to express their sympathy with the folk in Omagh.
"We feet that the Churches in Ireland is a suitable vehicle for this and should be involved within it," he said.
"We realised the more simple the event be, the better. So we're asking local clergy to arrange appropriate acts of reflection involving all the Churches in their area.
"To people who would not be able to get to them, we are suggesting that wherever they are at 3.10 that they stop and reflect and remember the people in Omagh.
"That I feel would be a very powerful impact because last Saturday the people of Omagh were doing things we all do - shopping, entertainment, sports and at 3.10 for many of them their lives stopped.
"We would hope Churches would be available for this but would by no mean want it to be limited to Churches."
By Noel McAdam
CHURCH of Ireland Primate Robin Eames has asked all clergy to arrange local ceremonies on Saturday to show solidarity with the people of Omagh.
He said they should coincide with the planned "act of reflection" in Omagh which will include a silence at 3.10pm - the time last Saturdays bomb exploded.
Dr Eames said that during the day CoI churches should remain open for individual prayers.
Methodist President the Rev David Kerr said a minute's silence to remember the victims of the Omagh bombing would be a "very powerful statement if it were to come from right across our whole country."
Mr Kerr said the call by the four main church leaders for acts of reflection was "responding to a very clear need for people to grieve and to express their sympathy with the folk in Omagh.
"We feet that the Churches in Ireland is a suitable vehicle for this and should be involved within it," he said.
"We realised the more simple the event be, the better. So we're asking local clergy to arrange appropriate acts of reflection involving all the Churches in their area.
"To people who would not be able to get to them, we are suggesting that wherever they are at 3.10 that they stop and reflect and remember the people in Omagh.
"That I feel would be a very powerful impact because last Saturday the people of Omagh were doing things we all do - shopping, entertainment, sports and at 3.10 for many of them their lives stopped.
"We would hope Churches would be available for this but would by no mean want it to be limited to Churches."
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Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0086
Published Date: 19-Aug-98
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