HOMILY – 17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR C
-Fr. Luke McNamara OSB Wake up. Pay attention. Don’t let life pass you by. There is something wonderful in store for each of us today,
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-Fr. Luke McNamara OSB Wake up. Pay attention. Don’t let life pass you by. There is something wonderful in store for each of us today,
-Fr. Abbot Brendan Coffey Dear Justin, three years ago you came before this altar and made your simple profession in our community. Today, you are
-Fr. Abbot Brendan Coffey OSB On 7 July last, the Hellier Stradivarius was put up for auction at Christies with a starting price of £5.5
-Fr. Jaroslaw Kurek OSB Until the age of twenty-six he was a man given up to the vanities of the world’. The man I want
The monastic community will begin its annual retreat in the evening of Sunday 31st July. Our retreat director is Bishop Erik Varden OCSO, former Abbot
-Fr. Martin Browne OSB There is a touch of comedy about the scene in today’s first reading, as Abraham negotiates with God. God is angry
-Fr. Lino Moreira OSB Martha welcomed Jesus into her house (cf. Lk 10:38), but she failed as a hostess, because – as Saint Luke puts
– Fr. Abbot Brendan Coffey OSB These are turbulent times. We have lived through the banking crisis of 2008, the COVID crisis of 2020, the
– Fr. Mark Patrick Hederman OSB Carrauntoohil is the highest mountain in Ireland at 3,407 feet. Jerusalem is 1,200 feet above sea level. And by
– Fr. Denis Hooper OSB Steve Jobs who passed away in the early two-thousands was the Chief Executive of the Apple Corporation – one of
-Fr. Henry O’Shea OSB If you listen you will hear, from east to west, Growing sounds of discontent and deep unrest. It is just the progress-driven plough of God, At a
– Fr. Lino Moreira OSB Every single day, from the time of the apostles until now, the Church never ceases to repeat the words and
Glenstal Abbey is home to a community of Benedictine monks in County Limerick, Ireland, and is a place of prayer, work, education and hospitality. The monastery sits alongside a popular guesthouse and a boarding school for boys, housed within a 19th century Normanesque castle amidst five hundred magnificent acres of farmland, forest, lakes and streams. more