Ash and dash at drive-thru West Cork church
Monsignor Aidan O'Driscoll with Orla and Adhran Scully and Rachel Collins at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clonakilty, preparing for the drive-through to hand out the Ash for Ash Wednesday. Picture: Denis Boyle
A West Cork church is organising a US-style Ash Wednesday 'drive-through' to allow its congregation collect the traditional blessed ashes in compliance with level 5 restrictions.
On Wednesday, February 17, parishioners can drive through the surrounds of the Immaculate Church in Clonakilty to collect their ashes in envelopes from a special outdoor stand in order to celebrate a traditional holy day which goes back some two thousand years.
