This year St Patrick’s Day is overshadowed by great concern and uncertainty because of Coronavirus, Covid-19. It is not a time to be mushy or sentimental about our Irishness or even about St. Patrick .Many of us are anxious, even frightened about what lies ahead for ourselves and our families and friends in the coming […]
Today we celebrate the wonder of God’s grace in the life of St Patrick – captured as a slave he turned to the Lord and was liberated in a deep and inner way that led to his being sent as the one who would lead the Irish to know the living God. We also […]
In view of the current Covid-19 pandemic, Glencairn Abbey will regrettably be closed to guests and visitors until further notice. As a community we are earnestly praying for the health and wellbeing of all and we pray that the Lord will watch over and protect all people, especially those who are most vulnerable and […]
WE are delighted to announce the opening of our new Abbey Guesthouse here at Glencairn. This phase of our building project began in December 2018 with the demolition of buildings adjacent to the old guesthouse building opposite the church to make way for our new guesthouse. Construction ended in January 2020 and the sisters began […]
We are very happy to announce that Glencairn Abbey has launched an online shop, and our Christmas cards are now available. The site is very new and still needs a little tweaking, but the products are ready. To begin browsing, please visit https://glencairn-abbey-shop.myshopify.com/collections/all-christmas-cards Since 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of our Sister […]
We are looking forward to hosting our next Monastic Experience Weekend from 25th to 27th October here at Glencairn. Single, Catholic women searching for a God-centred path in their life are welcome to apply for a place. Come to Glencairn and stay in our guesthouse, enter into our monastic rhythm of prayer and silence, work […]
Brothers and sisters from all the Irish Cistercian monasteries, and some from England and Scotland, met at Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth, last Monday, August 19th, for a one-day conference marking the 900th anniversary of the Charter of Charity (the first Cistercian Constitutions). There were two presentations, one by Sr Eleanor of Glencairn on the context […]
On the feast of St Benedict, 11th July, 2019, Emma Brady, from Cavan, Ireland received the Cistercian Novice’s habit from Mother Marie Fahy, Abbess of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn. The community gathered for her monastic initiation ceremony after Lauds on Thursday, 11th July and following her clothing, each greeted her individually with a ‘pax’ blessing […]
We had a lovely evening of sharing and song recently with author, Kate Hennessy and her musician/composer husband Garry Jones in Glencairn. Kate, hailing from Vermont, USA, is the award-winning author of ‘Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved by Beauty, An Intimate Portrait of my Grandmother’ . Kate shared with us memories of her […]
As we were all booked up for our last monastic vocations weekend in March for women finding out more about Cistercian life, we would like to offer women who are discerning their vocation another chance to come to Glencairn for a weekend experience of monastic life before the summer holidays. Our next Monastic Experience Weekend will take […]
Our next Monastic Experience Weekend for women who are discerning their vocation takes place 15-17 March 2019. We are delighted to be able to hold these weekends twice yearly for those who are searching for God’s will in their lives and feel a desire to make a greater response to Christ’s call to follow him. […]
Sr. Kate was born in Butlerstown, Co. Waterford, on 29th May, 1926, the second eldest of four sisters. She won a scholarship to Falcarragh in Donegal and from there went to Mary Immaculate Teacher Training College. She taught in Inistiogue, and then in De La Salle, Stephen Street, Waterford, after which she taught in Butlerstown. […]
