Homily – Christmas Midnight Mass
Abbot Brendan Coffey OSB Christmas is very different in Bethlehem this year. The Christian Churches in the Holy Land have decided that the only celebrations
25/12/2023
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Abbot Brendan Coffey OSB Christmas is very different in Bethlehem this year. The Christian Churches in the Holy Land have decided that the only celebrations
Fr Jarek Kurek OSB Last Sunday, we celebrated Gaudete Sunday – Rejoice Sunday – a Sunday of special joy. This Sunday, given it falls just
Please note the following changes to the liturgical timetable during the Christmas period, including details of Confession times and the opening and closing of the
Simon Sleeman OSB’s talk concludes our three-part series for Advent 2023. Watch here: https://bit.ly/41vvC59 (Listen to an audio-only version here: https://bit.ly/3v3dm70 )
Fr Cuthbert Brennan OSB This third Sunday of Advent is called Gaudete Sunday, from the Latin for joy but it’s hard to be joyful when
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHp_6FJxJz0 John O’Callaghan urges us to “Prepare the Way for the Lord!” in the latest talk in our Advent series available to watch here: https://bit.ly/3GA1fAO
Fr Christopher Dillon OSB Everything that we have heard in these readings is calling us to make ready, to make preparations; but for what? All
Five students from Glenstal Abbey School are currently taking part in an exchange programme at Delbarton, a Benedictine school located at Saint Mary’s Abbey in
The monks of Glenstal Abbey wish you a blessed solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFjziFCfJzY&t=431s%20 Fr Columba kicks-off the first of three talks for the Advent season with ‘Stay Awake, Stay Alive!’ viewable here: https://bit.ly/46IargY Listen to an audio-only
Fr William Fennelly OSB One of the great theologians of the Catholic Church in the 20th century was the German Jesuit, Karl Rahner. and he
Fr Columba McCann OSB A few weeks ago I was with the school choir in London, and as we walked up to the gates of
The famous Benedictine author Sr Maria Boulding once famously asked: “what is the point of Christ’s coming, if Christ does not come to me?” Advent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmSJyBmw0wg Br Oscar shares here an interesting perspective on sustainability and the stewardship of goods in the monastery according to Benedict’s Rule: https://bit.ly/47BvLFS (audio-only: https://bit.ly/46llOLI
Fr Patrick Hederman OSB About three weeks ago, I was walking by the terrace in the school when I saw nine students dressed in all
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