PRAYER SERVICE PROVIDES POIGNANT TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT DIED IN OMAGH
Prayer service provides poignant tribute to those that died in Omagh
OVER 1,000 people-gathered in Omagh on Sunday afternoon and walked behind a wooden cross along the route from the bomb site to the Tyrone County Hospital.
The special prayer service - organised by the Omagh Churches Forum - in memory of those who were killed in the August 15th atrocity, began many miles away in Drogheda.
Representatives of a prayer group from there had walked with the cross as a mark of respect to all who had been killed and injured.
The group joined with local people at 3.00 pm in Drumragh carpark, before making a dignified procession to the bomb site and then to the hospital in a re-enactment of 'The Way of the Cross'.
This route, which just eleven weeks ago, was the scene of such frantic activity as buses, taxis and vans, carried the maimed and dying to the hospital.
Carrying the cross on Sunday, were the same people who helped ferry the injured on the day - bus drivers, taxi drivers and police/army, nurses and doctors. At different stages the cross changed hands until the final part of the journey, the relatives of the victims carried the cross up to the hospital door.
Omagh's parish Priest, Fr Michael Keaveney and Methodist Minister, Rev Peter Good, were amongst a number of clergy who attended the service.
Fr Keaveney thanked the prayer group from Drogheda saying "By your coming here today, you are sharing some of our pain and helping us carry our burdens".
The prayer service was organised by the Omagh Churches Forum in conjunction with the Drogheda Prayer Group.
OVER 1,000 people-gathered in Omagh on Sunday afternoon and walked behind a wooden cross along the route from the bomb site to the Tyrone County Hospital.
The special prayer service - organised by the Omagh Churches Forum - in memory of those who were killed in the August 15th atrocity, began many miles away in Drogheda.
Representatives of a prayer group from there had walked with the cross as a mark of respect to all who had been killed and injured.
The group joined with local people at 3.00 pm in Drumragh carpark, before making a dignified procession to the bomb site and then to the hospital in a re-enactment of 'The Way of the Cross'.
This route, which just eleven weeks ago, was the scene of such frantic activity as buses, taxis and vans, carried the maimed and dying to the hospital.
Carrying the cross on Sunday, were the same people who helped ferry the injured on the day - bus drivers, taxi drivers and police/army, nurses and doctors. At different stages the cross changed hands until the final part of the journey, the relatives of the victims carried the cross up to the hospital door.
Omagh's parish Priest, Fr Michael Keaveney and Methodist Minister, Rev Peter Good, were amongst a number of clergy who attended the service.
Fr Keaveney thanked the prayer group from Drogheda saying "By your coming here today, you are sharing some of our pain and helping us carry our burdens".
The prayer service was organised by the Omagh Churches Forum in conjunction with the Drogheda Prayer Group.
Further Information
Publisher: ULSTER HERALD
Ref: UH/0666
Published Date: 05-Nov-98
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