With kind permission of Northern Ireland Screen, Digital Film Archive
In the description of the film, which was digitised as part of the BFI’s Unlocking Film Heritage Project they describe this 13 minute film as: -
‘Solemn religious ceremony, featuring footage of The Rev Jim Young leadings worshippers in a Presbyterian Communion Service. As the congregation prepare for the sacrament they sing Psalm 116 ‘ I will take the cup of Salvation’.
They note our tradition of sitting in the aisles to celebrate Communion.
This tradition is still practiced today at Glascar Presbyterian Church.
(Elders in the film include Jim Waddell, (Past Clerk of Session, Glascar) and the late James Hanna & Norman Todd.
REV. J.D. YOUNG was minister of Glascar Presbyterian Church from 1951 to 1973