This week the monastic community remembers Father Gerard McGinty OSB whose anniversary occurs at this time. Born Francis Patrick Joseph McGinty in Dublin on 12th

Fr. Jarek Kurek: There you go — we’ve been celebrating another Christmas, a truly beautiful time for any family. And yet today, the loveliness of

Fr. Henry O’Shea: ‘Paris is well worth a Mass.’ In 1592, after three years on the throne, King Henry IV of France, a vociferously avowed

Fr. Denis Hooper:  THE GLASS IS HALF FULL THE GLASS IS HALF EMPTY SOME OF US ARE SAID TO BE BORN OPTIMISTS SOME OF US

Fr. Christopher Dillon: This season of Advent in which we find ourselves has a prophetic character; and prophets are regularly anti-Establishment, insofar as they call

Fr. Luke Macnamara: The vision of the end of time is compared to the flood in the days of Noah. Strikingly, the people swept away

Advent (from the Latin adventus, meaning “coming” or “arrival”) is a period of preparation for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, who, as the incarnate

In 1969 Pope Paul VI visited Uganda and made a plea in Kampala for Africans to become Missionaries in and for the Church themselves. The

Among the students of Glenstal Abbey School going home for the Christmas holidays in 1990 was sixteen-years old Peter, who carried with him in a

The monastic community is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of a book by Br Emmaus O’Herlihy OSB. Paintings will be published on 15th December

Extract from the Annals of Glenstal Priory for 18th and 19thDecember, 1927: ‘He [Father Superior, Dom Gérard François] came back [from Belgium] during the night

CHRISTMAS LITURGY TIMES/OPENING HOURS Wednesday 24th December (Christmas Eve) 6 pm – Vespers I 11.20 pm – Vigil followed by Midnight Mass Thursday 25th December

The Winter 2025 edition of the Glenstal Abbey Chronicle has been published, and is now available to read on the website here.

Fr Henry O’Shea: Abroad the royal banners fly, now shines the Cross’s mystery: upon it Life did death endure, and yet by death did life

Fr. Mark Patrick Hederman: We have to be careful not to create a wrong impression on a day like today. Some interpretations of the Gospel