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

-Fr. William Fennelly OSB All over Europe there are mediaeval cathedrals that are famous for their stained glass such as Notre Dame de Paris. When

Fr. Abbot Brendan Coffey Last Sunday a man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair, wearing a wig and lipstick, threw a cake at

‘Now you see me, now you don’t!’ could be a good description for Jesus’s various appearances to his disciples after his resurrection from the dead.