NEWS & REFLECTIONS

July 19, 2021

Abbess Marie Fahy's Chapter Talk on Sr Beatrice's First Profession

Sr Beatrice’s First Profession 11th July 2021 – Feast of St Benedict Mother Marie Fahy O.C.S.O. My dear Emma: From today on you will be called by a new...

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June 1, 2021

Community Retreat 2021

Our annual community retreat this year took place from 16th to 23rd May here at Glencairn. Our retreat preacher this year was Fr. John Walsh OP, an Irish Dominican friar...

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May 16, 2021

Ascension Day Reflection

From the Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1: ‘Run to the Mountain’ 1939-1941 AND TODAY IS ASCENSION DAY, and in a week the Paraclete comes down like fires...

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April 2, 2021

How Can We Say That God Is Good?

How can evil and God co-exist in our world? What meaning does suffering have in our lives? As we commemorate Jesus’ death on a cross on Good Friday each year,...

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December 24, 2020

A Christmas Hymn and Blessing from Glencairn

Watch our video of ‘A Noble Flower of Judah’ sung by the community at St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn. Dear family and friends, we cannot come together this year for our...

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November 28, 2020

First Sunday of Advent 2020 Reflection: A Time of Trust and Hope

Sr Eleanor Campion shares a reflection on this first sunday of Adent based on the entrance antiphon for the Mass ‘Ad te levavi’. To you, I lift up my soul,...

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October 15, 2020

Special Birthdays in our Community

What a year for big birthdays in the community! On 30th June, Mother Marie, who has served the community as Abbess for the past 19 years, turned 70 years old....

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September 20, 2020

Conference 14 - 18 Sept 2020: The Rule of St Benedict & The Little Prince

Fr Luke McNamara OSB is a monk of Glenstal Abbey and a lecturer in sacred scripture at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. As a follower of the Rule of St Benedict...

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April 19, 2020

A Novice's Diary: Doing Isolation with God

‘Philippa had discovered the tower in her second week at Brede… the high platform, where I can get away, she would have said. After only two weeks she had wanted...

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April 11, 2020

Some Useful Tips from our Abbess to Cope during the Covid-19 Quarantine

On 27th March the Irish government introduced a lockdown throughout the country. In response to the Covid-19 crisis and this strict period of quarantine at home, our Abbess Mother Marie...

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