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| Rovaniemi Church |
PARISH FESTIVITIES AROUND ROVANIEMI CHURCH on Sunday 24 October 2021 – Welcome!
In the celebration mass at Rovaniemi church at 10 AM, acting parish vicar Ilari Kinnunen will lead the liturgy and parish vicar Kari Yliräisänen will give a leaving sermon.
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| Kari Yliräisänen |
Farewell to the parish vicar
Kari Yliräisänen was chosen as the parish vicar in Rovaniemi in 2016 when the parish was the third largest in Finland. The farewell festivities for Kari as well as the Rovaniemi church 70-year celebrations were postponed due to the pandemic from August 2020 to August 2021. Because the church celebrations could not be held even then, the parish vicar’s retiring party was moved to be celebrated alongside the 70-year celebrations for the Rovaniemi church fresco in October 2021.
A long career in different tasks
Kari Yliräisänen worked in the Rovaniemi parish for 40 years, from 1980 to 2020. He started as a youth pastor and after that worked as a regional chaplain for over 20 years. During this time he was also responsible for information services from 1992 to 2005. He also acted as a military chaplain from 1980 to 1988. Kari acted as head of information and communications from 2005 to 2016 and also as acting parish vicar twice during this time. Kari’s broad and versatile experience from working in the parish, from communications and administration as well as experience from leading the whole broad organisation gave him excellent competencies to take the role of parish vicar from 2016. Altogether, he worked as the parish vicar for seven years. In his years of work, Yliräisänen believes he has most affected the development of parish communications: reforms in the Pääsky magazine and websites, starting the parish’s own radio activities and RadioDei being heard in Rovaniemi.
Open doors in the parish centre
Renovations and the Rovaniemi parish centre took one year from the autumn of 2020 to the end of August 2021. You can come and see the new parish centre during the celebration day at 11:30 when lunch will be served at the parish centre’s café restaurant Ruustinna. The doors will be open until 5 PM. Inspired by the fresco in Rovaniemi church, school children have drawn and painted works in the fresco art exhibition and these can be viewed in the parish centre.
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Photography exhibition in the crypt
In the church crypt (entrance from the Vapaudentie side) there is a photography exhibition about the 71-year-old church and the 70-year-old fresco curated by photography students from the University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art, Matti Kantola and Matias Toropainen. Photographs of details and different stages of the church and fresco are displayed in the hallway of the crypt and in the chapel.
Celebration in the church at 13:30
The celebration speech will be held by judge Pirjo Pyhäjärvi. After the speech, painter Tapani Rantala’s portrait of Kari Yliräisänen will be revealed.
Joona Saraste’s celebration cantata for the 70-year-old fresco will have its premiere performance in the church.
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