A Trip to Nigeria for Mother Marie and Sister Michele

  In autumn 2024, Mother Marie and Sr Michele visited our daugher house, St Justina’s monastery in Abakaliki, as part of a pastoral visitation conducted by Dom Augustine of Conyers...
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Beauty Restored: Church Painting Project Reaches Completion

For the past nine weeks, our Church has undergone a beautiful transformation as it received a fresh coat of paint. This renewal project brought both challenges and blessings for the...
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800th anniversary of Tracton Abbey

Sisters Fiachra and Kathleen were delighted to be amongst a group of Cistercians invited to participate in a wonderful Mass in the Sacred Heart Church, Minane Bridge recently, to celebrate...
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Feast of St Francis

The Sister gardeners and decorators did us proud today in their assembly of a beautiful collage of home produce at the foot of the altar for our annual thanksgiving Mass....
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A Visit to Kylemore Abbey

On Saturday 31st of August, Sisters Denise, Beatrice and Laura made their way from Glencairn to Kylemore Abbey to attend a celebration for Religious hosted by the Benedictine nuns to...
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Christmas is Coming!

The children are only just gone back to school and here we are already talking about Christmas?! Yes, we are. Here at Glencairn Abbey, preparation for the Christmas card season...
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Congratulations Father Chris!

On Tuesday, August 13th, the Sisters of Glencairn Abbey had the great joy of welcoming newly ordained Dominican priest, Fr Chris Gault, OP, to celebrate Mass for them. As a...
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French Catholic Scouts Volunteer at Glencairn

The Sisters of Glencairn were delighted to welcome a troop of French Catholic Boy Scouts to St Mary’s Abbey again, following a first group’s visit in the summer of 2022....
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Annual Community Retreat

The Community of Glencairn would be most grateful if you would remember them in prayer while they make their annual retreat from 6pm on Wednesday April 17th to 9 am...
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Abbess's Chapter Talk for St Patrick's Day 2024

Today we celebrate the feast of St Patrick.  We rejoice in his response to God’s call, in his conversion and his success in being an instrument of God’s love and...
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Cistercian Junior Seminar 2024

This year’s formation seminar for monks and nuns in initial formation will take place in Our Lady of Hyning Monastery, Lancashire, U.K. from 4th to 11th July, 2024. This year’s...
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Benedictine Chant Forum 2023

  As part of her training in the liturgy as a junior professed sister with responsibility for leading our choir at Glencairn, Sr Beatrice attended this year’s Chant Forum on...
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