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Religion and Ethics tv news feature on St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn

22 July 2011

An investigation by U.S. television producer Phil O’Connor into the decline of the Irish Church brought him, together with the Religion and Ethics team and camera crew to Ireland in late May of this

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Listening To God’s Call?

06 June 2011

Many people ask the question: “How do I know that I have a vocation?”, “How do I know where God is leading me?”  The answer is not a factual kind of knowledge.  The young people that have entered the

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Junior Course at Mount Melleray Abbey, Ireland 2011

03 June 2011

This year’s meeting for junior monks and nuns of our region of the Cistercian Order takes place in Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford, Ireland from 30 May until 7 June, 2011.  With participants

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Sr Lelia Kehoe’s Diamond Jubilee

13 May 2011

On 1st May, 2011 Sr Lelia Kehoe ocso looked back at 60 years of monastic life as a Cistercian nun at Glencairn as she celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of her profession of monastic vows.  Many of her

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