Sister Angela receives the Cistercian habit

On the feast of St Bernard, 20th August, having completed her six-month period of postulancy, Angela Finegan received the Cistercian habit, initiating her entrance to the novitiate at Glencairn for...

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Youth 2000 Summer Festival of Faith at Mount St Joseph Cistercian Abbey, Roscrea

The annual summer festival of faith organised by Youth 2000 relocated from Clonmacnois this year to the Cistercian Abbey of Mount St Joseph, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. Up to 1,000 young...

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Monastic Formators Meeting, Tautra, Norway

This was the fourth gathering of the Nordic Federation of Contemplative Nuns taking place on Cistercian soil, on the island of Tautra in Norway from 29 July – 7 August,...

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Diamond Jubilee of Mother Agnes O’Shea ocso

A professed member of this community for sixty years this July, the celebration of Mother Agnes O’Shea’s Diamond Jubilee took place on 17th July at Glencairn with a special celebration...

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Harp Recital in the Abbey Church

Over one hundred guests gathered at the Abbey church at Glencairn on 12th July together with members of the community to listen to the exquisite harp music of Marguerite Blaney...

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