Carol Service in St Carthage’s Cathedral
On Sunday evening, 22nd December four sisters of our community attended the Church of Ireland Christmas carol service Nine Lessons & Carols at St Carthage’s cathedral in Lismore, Co. Waterford...
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An Evening of Sacred Song at Tallow Church, Co. Waterford
A cold winter’s evening last Friday night was quickly transformed for those of us who were gathered at the church of the Immaculate Conception, in Tallow, Co. Waterford for an...
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Building Project Fundraising Event: Celebrity Chef Neven Maguire Cookery Demonstration
Treat yourself and your friends to a night of Fun and Food with Celebrity Chef Neven Maguire. This fundraising event in aid of St Mary’s Abbey building project takes place...
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Come, follow me: forthcoming Monastic Experience Weekend
Are you looking for something deeper in your life? A way of life that is more God-centred? A way of greater simplicity and truthfulness? A way of life in a...
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Sister Liz receives the Cistercian Habit
The community have rejoiced in witnessing two monastic initiations in the month of August of this year here at Glencairn. On 27 August, 2013 Elizabeth Deasy was formally received as...
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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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Junior course for monks and nuns in formation, 1-7 July 2013
As Secretary for Formation for the region, along with Fr. Michael Burleigh of Mount St. Bernard, I have been asked to write a few words on the recent Junior course...
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Abbatial Election, 31 May 2013
On the Feast of the Visitation on 31st May 2013, Sister Marie Fahy was re-elected Abbess of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn. Mother Marie began her leadership ministry to the community...
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