Homily – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Fr Christopher Dillon OSB Well, that is putting it to you, to all of us; and from every angle! Whether it is Isaiah, from eight
Fr Christopher Dillon OSB Well, that is putting it to you, to all of us; and from every angle! Whether it is Isaiah, from eight
Abbot Brendan Coffey OSB Today is the day when the end of winter is enough of a possibility that we can begin to anticipate spring.
Fr Cuthbert Brennan OSB Imagine with me for a moment the make-up of the crowd in today’s gospel. They are made up of the poor,
Brother Timothy marks 50 years as a monk after swapping finance for poverty This article by Donal O’Regan appeared in the Limerick Leader on 21st
Fr Henry O’Shea OSB Is our renown’d Dominion then so small As not to hold a new inhabitant? Or are her means so pitiably scant As not
A feature by Chai Brady in The Irish Catholic on 19th January 2023 and copied with permission from www.irishcatholic.com It’s hugely important to bridge the complicated
Fr Denis Hooper OSB “The River Jordan is deep and wide Milk and honey on the other side. All my trials Lord Soon be over”
Opening to the Divine Light is an opportunity to explore the Transfiguration of the Lord with the monks of Glenstal Abbey on Saturday 11th February
Fr Lino Moreira OSB Jesus’ way of starting his public activity was totally unexpected. Even John the Baptist couldn’t understand what was going on and
Abbot Brendan OSB Everything about the Magi is unusual. They come from strange exotic lands to the east; they were highly educated philosophers or astrologers.
Fr Jaroslaw Kurek OSB ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will’. The Saviour has been born for
Fr Senan Furlong OSB In her late 40s, the English poet UA Fanthorpe, turned into what she called “a middle-aged drop-out”. She gave up her
Abbot Brendan OSB The angels sing of peace this night, but we have no peace. Our world is sick with war and everywhere we turn,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HjcOK-KpW4 Awaken to God’s Presence in the run-up to Christmas with Columba McCann OSB in this final talk of our Advent 2022 series: https://bit.ly/3hQmUMi (Audio-only:
Changes to the liturgy timetable during the Christmas period: On Christmas Day, Solemn Lauds will be celebrated at 8am and Solemn Vespers II will be celebrated at 5pm.
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