Mass on Ascension Day in Skálholt Cathedral at 14:00

On Ascension Day on May 9, 20024 at 14 is a mass in Skálholt Cathedral in collaboration with the association of senior citizens in Biskupstung.

Aðalbjörg Stefanía Helgadóttir, who has recently published the book Lonely - connections and purpose in a world of growing loneliness, will deliver a meditation at the mass. Priestly service is performed by Rev. Axel Á Njarðvík. The organist is Jón Bjarnason.

Bishop Pétur Sigurgeirsson proposed at a synod in 1982 that the day of the elderly would be an annual event in the country's churches and that day would be on Ascension Day. Most people have now forgotten what Mr. Pétri had in mind when the content of the day was thus changed. On the day of the elderly, many senior citizens take an active part in the mass, including by reading scripture readings, giving a sermon and singing.

Families have the opportunity to celebrate together in their church, and refreshments are offered in many places after the service. Ascension Day in Christianity is the beginning of a new time, a new century, new possibilities, a new life. This is how this day should also work in our lives. It should be a day of transformation in our lives.

Coffee and waffles offered by the church after the mass.