Wedding of Cana study day
You are invited to the ‘Wine, Women, Men, and Song’ study day on the Gospel text of the Wedding of Cana. Join Fathers Senan, Columba and
You are invited to the ‘Wine, Women, Men, and Song’ study day on the Gospel text of the Wedding of Cana. Join Fathers Senan, Columba and
Fr Patrick Hederman OSB The Prodigal Son One thing we all have in common: we were born into a family of one kind or another.
Fr John O’Callaghan OSB ‘We can hardly guess at what is on the earth, and what is at hand we find with labour’, as the
The penitential Psalm 50, allegedly written by King David after his sin with Bathsheba, which the monks of Glenstal Abbey chant at Lauds on Friday
Fr William Fennelly OSB Today’s gospel has always struck me as having a message that is somewhat odd. Be as humble as you can be
Fr Christopher Dillon OSB Out of the clear blue sky, comes this bombshell of challenge from Jesus to those who were and are following him.
Fr Cuthbert Brennan OSB What are we to make of the God we encounter in our readings this morning? Luke continues to present to us
Glenstal Abbey’s Liturgical Conference is back and this year will consider the liturgical experience of the community when gathered in the place of worship. This
Fr. Luke Macnamara 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
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