We had a lovely evening of sharing and song recently with author, Kate Hennessy and her musician/composer husband Garry Jones in Glencairn. Kate, hailing from Vermont, USA, is the award-winning author of ‘Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved by Beauty, An Intimate Portrait of my Grandmother’ . Kate shared with us memories of her […]
As we were all booked up for our last monastic vocations weekend in March for women finding out more about Cistercian life, we would like to offer women who are discerning their vocation another chance to come to Glencairn for a weekend experience of monastic life before the summer holidays. Our next Monastic Experience Weekend will take […]
Our next Monastic Experience Weekend for women who are discerning their vocation takes place 15-17 March 2019. We are delighted to be able to hold these weekends twice yearly for those who are searching for God’s will in their lives and feel a desire to make a greater response to Christ’s call to follow him. […]
Sr. Kate was born in Butlerstown, Co. Waterford, on 29th May, 1926, the second eldest of four sisters. She won a scholarship to Falcarragh in Donegal and from there went to Mary Immaculate Teacher Training College. She taught in Inistiogue, and then in De La Salle, Stephen Street, Waterford, after which she taught in Butlerstown. […]
We thought it would be good to share with you Dom Augustine’s homily at yesterday’s mass for the feast of the Holy Founders of the Cistercian Order, Saints Robert, Alberic and Stephen. In it, he describes the nature of our life as Cistercians, the journey of prayer and the interior and exterior challenges and joys […]
This year’s feast of our Cistercian Founders, Saints Robert, Alberic and Stephen was particularly special as we celebrated the 25 year ‘Silver Jubilee’ of Sr Stephen’s monastic journey here at Glencairn. A teacher of mathematics and english, Sr Stephen began her Cistercian journey in her native India, entering the community of Makkiyad (now located in […]
Following a raised awareness of the ongoing and detrimental effects of plastic pollution in our environment and in a response to the Pope’s encyclical, Laudato Si, on care for our common home, we as a community began looking at ways to reduce our non-recyclable waste. With this in mind and thanks to Karen Nicholson of […]
It’s time to buy Christmas cards! This year the Glencairn Abbey Christmas card catalogue includes ten English language and eight Irish language designs. As well as sisters from the community, our artists include Gillian Brady, Ken Buggy, Margaret Byrne, Alina Cojocaru, Clodagh Creedon, Nodlaig Ryan Donegan, Hélène Garetta, and Valerie O’Sullivan. Browse through our catalogue […]
On the 8th September, 2018 we were delighted to welcome Emma Brady from Co. Cavan as a new Postulant to our community. Emma began her vocation discernment with us during her college years, where she studied Law and German at university before applying to enter St. Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn. Emma’s entrance day was the Feast […]
Monks and nuns following the Rule of St. Benedict take a vow of stability to their community and ordinarily remain in the monastery they have entered all their monastic life. One monk who takes his stability with him on the road is Fr. Mark Butlin OSB of Ampleforth Abbey, who has been serving on the […]
Just eight days after Sr. Angela’s Solemn Profession day on 20th of August, we again had reason for great rejoicing in Glencairn with the final vows of Sr. Elizabeth Deasy. Her vows were received by Mother Marie Fahy, Abbess of St. Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, who clothed her in the monastic cowl and black veil, […]
Cistercian monks and nuns, representing Glencairn, Mt Melleray and Roscrea, travelled to Dublin yesterday to attend the papal mass. Eight sisters from Glencairn left at six a.m. in heavy rain to make sure they were on time to negotiate the traffic and the long walk to their seats. The joy of all the participants making […]
