Our new CD Laudamus (We Praise): Morning and Evening Prayer is now available to order, shipping will commence from Friday 14th December 2012. If you wish to buy our new CD you can purchase either directly through our website or from the Abbey here at Glencairn. Laudamus will also be available in other monastery gift […]
Friends of St. Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, the Carrigbyrne Pike Choir bring their new Season of Joy production to Lismore, Co. Waterford on Sunday 16th December at 7pm at St. Carthage’s Catholic Church to help raise funds for St. Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn Building Renovation Project. This new musical production was launched last April in America and […]
The Nuns of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn are producing a new CD recording of our community’s celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours for sale in aid of our current building needs. On Tuesday of this week, we gathered for an all day recording in the Abbey Church of Morning and Evening Prayer under the […]
A very restful and peace-filled eight days of retreat from October 15th to 23rd this year afforded the community precious time to renew and deepen our availability to our life of prayer and praise. Our retreat was preached this year by Fr Tom Jordan OP, editor of the Dominican Publications periodical Spirituality since its beginnings […]
For those who are discerning their vocation and wish to attend our next Monastic Experience Weekend here at Glencairn in the coming months, the next weekend will be taking place at St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn 26-28th October, 2012. For more details about this upcoming weekend please see our vocations page here on our website. All […]
This summer, in addition to those women staying with us on “live-in” who are currently discerning their monastic vocation, we were also joined by two wonderful volunteers Jenny Buning and Leo Healy who worked side by side with the sisters in caring for the environment here at the Abbey on our 250 acre property, and […]
Thursday of this week was a very special day in the life of the community at Glencairn as we witnessed Sister Fiachra making her Final Vows – the third sister in our community to make Solemn Profession at St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn this year. Sister Fiachra entered St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn in 2006 after managing […]
A four day summer festival held by the spiritual movement for youth Youth 2000 attracted up to a thousand young people this year at the ancient monastic ruins of Clonmacnois, where St Ciaran founded his monastery in 548. Youth 2000 is an international movement established in response to Pope John Paul’s call for young people […]
“Listen, my child, to the master’s teaching, and bend the ear of your heart…” (Rule of St Benedict, Prologue) An important date for our juniors calendar is the annual junior course, this year arranged jointly between the Benedictines and Cistercians of the region of Ireland and the UK, and held this year at Pluscarden Abbey, […]
On 12th June, 2012 the community rejoiced with our Sister Eleanor in marking the 25th anniversary of her monastic profession as a Cistercian nun of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn. Sister Eleanor, a native of Co. Waterford, entered Glencairn in 1984, where she completed her novitiate and made her First Profession of monastic vows on 31st […]
On June 4th, 2012 Sister Denise Vaccaro made her Solemn monastic vows as a Cistercian Nun of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn in the presence of the community and friends. She was consecrated by Dom Augustine McGregor, Abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. Sister Denise, from New York, U.S.A., began her religious life in […]
It’s not often we receive such a huge challenge i.e.to produce 250,000 peoples’ hosts and 100 extra-large hosts for consecration atthe 50th International Eucharistic Congress, due to commence in Dublin on June 6th, the Feast of Corpus Christi. However, in this, the sisters of Glencairn sawa unique opportunity for an enclosed community to contribute in […]
