In the name of The Fallen, The Gilmour & The Holy Stones, Amen. Come and join the congregation of Garageland Gigs & repent for your sins of hearing to some awful rubbish over the past week this Sunday evening. Service takes place at Eamonn Dorans and commences at 7.45pm. Celebrants on the night are: The Fallen www.thefallenmusic.com Black Daisy Gobi Ste-V-Roc This weeks’ service is being offered for St. Theophanes. Theophanes, born at Constantinople, about 758; died in Samothracia, probably 12 March, 817, on which day he is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology. He was the son of Isaac, imperial governor of the islands of the White Sea, and of Theodora, of whose family nothing is known. After the early death of his parents he came to the Court of Constantine Copronimus. He was married at the age of twelve, but induced his wife to lead a life of virginity, and in 799, after the death of his father-in-law, they separated with mutual consent to embrace the religious state, she choosing a convent on an island near Constantinople, while he entered the monastery called Polychronius in the district of Sigriano near Cyzicus. Later he built a monastery on his own lands on the island of Calonymus (now Calomio). After six years he returned to Sigriano, founded an abbey known by the name "of the great acre", and governed it as abbot. As such he was present at the second General Council of Nicaea, 787, and signed its decrees in defense of the sacred images. When the emperor Leo the Armenian again began his iconoclastic warfare, he ordered Theophanes to be brought to Constantinople and tried in vain to induce him to condemn what had been sanctioned by the council. Theophanes was cast into prison and for two years suffered cruel treatment; he was then banished to Samothracia, where, overwhelmed with afflictions, he lived only seventeen days and wrought many miracles after death. €9 for the plate on the door. So come in peace to love & serve the rock. Amen.