The response to the streaming of the Novena’s has been fantastic. Yesterday across all live services we had over 8,000 visitors.

Clonard website has some nice feedback on their guestbook

Today see the launch of our a new Church on ChurchServices.tv

Mount St Alphonsus joins ChurchServices.tv with the start of their own Novena. See the events page for a list of services.

The live stream from Mount St Alphonsus can be found on www.churchservices.tv/live/Alphonsus

Mount St Alphonsus has launched a brand new website (the official launch is next week), you can check out their website on www.novena.ie

This year is the third year ChurchServices.tv has broadcast the Clonard Solemn Novena from Belfast which starts on Wednesday 18th June.

Previously tens of thousands have tuned in to view the Novena on line. Last year 35,000 people dropped by during the Novena with hundreds tuning in for each session. With the introduction this year of extra cameras in the Church we hope to deliver better viewing quality.

During the nine days sessions run from 7.00 am in the morning to 11.00pm in the evening, several thousand people are expected to attend the Church every day. Check our events page for a full timetable.

As mentioned previously  we have installed a total of 5 cameras into Clonard Monastery. We had some initial focusing problems which have now been resolved.  There have been some audio issues as well which we have ironed out.

You may have noticed that there are a few different views of Clonard being streamed at the moment. We have just installed four extra cameras into the Church, bringing the total to five.

There will be more of an update in the next day or two on the upgrade.

There is electrical work being carried out in the Augustinians Cork at the moment.

The service will be down while the work is being carried out.

Update 14th June 2008: Service is back up again after electrical work.