Tallaght Choral Society present Requiem and other works on Saturday 29th May 2010 at 3pm.
Tallaght Choral Society present Requiem and other works on Saturday 29th May 2010 at 3pm in the Church, Glenstal Abbey.
Admission is free – to reserve seats please email info@tallaghtchoralsociety.net
The 47th Glenstal Ecumenical Conference, themed Bread for the World: Mission Imperative, will take place from 26th June – 1st July 2010.
Download the Conference Brochure & Booking Form
The Glenstal Conference is in its 47th year. It will take place in Glenstal from 29th June until 1st July. It began at a time when it was not easy for church leaders to meet without attracting adverse comment; Glenstal was a ‘safe place’ where trust and friendship could grow and flourish. Forty seven years on, the inter-church climate has changed considerably and participants include theologically alert lay persons from all traditions alongside church leaders and academics and members of the monastic community.
This year’s theme is Bread for the World: Mission Imperative, reflecting the 100th anniversary of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference, regarded as the starting point of the modern ecumenical movement. . It will be explored through Bible reflection led by Dr Lavinia Byrne, known to many from her writing and her reflections on BBC 4’s Thought for the Day. The plenary sessions will be addressed by Dr Pete Ward of King’s College, London, and editor of Mass Culture: the interface of Eucharist and Mission. On Wednesday afternoon, a panel of ‘local’ speakers, Father John Anih, Dr Brian Callan and Mrs Helen Freeburn, will address specific aspects of the theme, ‘earthing’ it in the Irish situation. A significant amount of time for discussion among the participants is built into the programme. Brother Martin Browne, Headmaster of Glenstal School, will reflect on the process of the Conference.
The thinking behind the choice of this theme and those of last year, Change of Climate: breaking bread on a fragile earth, and the previous year, Love bade me welcome – the costly grace of hospitality, has been along the lines that Christians very often use inter-faith, inter-cultural and other issues to distance them from issues closer to home and among themselves. Relationships with each other and the faith-full practice of the Christian way of life have implications for the world in which we live. We will be reflecting on the Eucharist in the context of proclaiming the Gospel.
Gillian Kingston
Director
Glenstal Ecumenical Conference
Those interested in attending the Conference should contact:
Father Senan Furlong OSB
Registration Secretary
Glenstal Abbey,
Murroe,
Co. Limerick
Email: ecumenical@glenstal.org
Download the Conference Brochure & Booking Form
As series of 2-day workshops on 10th/11th August and 16th/17th August 2010.
Download the course brochure and application form
Glenstal Abbey will host two organ workshops on improvisation and repertoire performance, given by internationally acclaimed musicians Ansgar Wallenhorst and Douglas Hollick, respectively.
The Ansgar Wallenhorst Workshop will take place on August 10th & 11th. The theme will be Organ Improvisation.
The Douglas Hollick workshop will take place on August 16th & 17th. The theme will be Repertoire Performance.
Download the course brochure and application form
5-day course from 5th-9th July 2010.
This is an intensive four-day workshop in all forms of imaginative writing—poetry, prose, and performance. We will meet each afternoon and there will be individual conferences as well. It would be desirable if you can send a piece of work ahead of time to Fanny Howe, so she can be prepared to meet with you soon after your arrival.
Former participants are most welcome. Some have continued to work with Ms. Howe during the year by mail, and this will a remain a possibility for those who come this year. We hope to have two of the monks from Glenstal, as in the past, leading discussions and helping you with your writing, so you will have plenty of attention (and fun)! The environment of the Abbey is truly conducive to meditative time, embarking on new work, and to re-visioning writing you have already done.
Fanny Howe is a novelist, poet and essayist who has won several awards for her books. These include The Winter Sun, The Wedding Dress, The Lyrics, Selected Poems and Gone. She has had a Guggenheim Fellowship for her prose and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for her poetry. Her mother was the Irish dramatist and novelist Mary Manning. She has taught for many years and is a frequent visitor to Ireland and Glenstal in particular.
COST & ENROLMENT
€350 for course and lunch each day.
Limited accommodation available in the monastery guesthouse (all rooms en suite).
If you wish to register for this course or get further information please email courses@glenstal.org
5-day course from 16th-20th August 2010.
The aim of this week is to lead participants to an understanding of the world as God’s work of art, and our role, as fellow artists, helping to bring this artwork to completion.
Ecology is understanding the world as God’s temple. The abbey gardens, and woods are used to introduce participants to the planet as a living and breathing organism, an extension of our bodily selves rather than an object for our use and exploitation.
Education is the key to exchanging our natural biological domineering way of being in the world for a more enlightened appreciation of our appropriate place on the planet. Workshops for developing such attitudes and artistry will include nature walks, approaches to the development of sacred spaces such as gardens, sanctuaries, labyrinths. The emphasis will be on imagination, imagining the world as God dreamt it might be. We ourselves are God’s work of art and education should help us to achieve the beauty which is our goal as human beings; alongside maintenance of the heritage we should be handing on to our children.
Eucharist means to give thanks – the goal of education is to teach us to give thanks for everything that exists in the universe, to change what may appear to be drudgery into gratitude; the ordinariness of our lives transformed into the marvelous, water changed into wine. Every fragment of the planet is potentially an element of the Eucharist and every day we should be celebrating a Mass of the universe.
Course Directors: Noirin Ni Riain, Mark Patrick Hederman, Gregory Collins, Simon Sleeman.
This course is part of the Certificate in Theology and Religious Studies offered by M.I.C. 6 ECTS credits are awarded for this course.
COST & ENROLMENT
€350 for course and lunch each day.
Limited accommodation available in the monastery guesthouse (all rooms en suite).
If you wish to register for this course or get further information please email courses@glenstal.org
5-day course from 2nd-6th August 2010.
The primary aim of this course is to foster spiritual growth and a sense of the symbolic in our lives and thereby open our eyes and ears to new ways of seeing and hearing. It aims to develop a liturgical vision of reality with transforming consequences for spiritual growth and our engagement with the world.
It will do this by exploring Liturgy and Symbolism using the Glenstal icons, chant, and cinema as ways to connect with a forgotten world. The course will also lead participants to a greater appreciation of worship as the source and summit of the Christian life.
Those attending the course will join in the liturgy of the monastic community and participate in seminars aimed at understanding the meaning contained in ritual and symbolism.
Course Directors: Noirin Ni Rian, Mark Patrick Hederman, Gregory Collins, Simon Sleeman.
This course is part of the Certificate in Theology and Religious Studies offered by M.I.C. 6 ECTS credits are awarded for this course.
COST & ENROLMENT
€350 for course and lunch each day.
Limited accommodation available in the monastery guesthouse (all rooms en suite).
If you wish to register for this course or get further information please email courses@glenstal.org
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A display of some of the work of Br Benedict Tutty. Viewing is by appointment only.
Viewing of this exhibition is by appointment only.
Monk and artist of Glenstal Abbey, Benedict was born in County Wicklow and entered the Benedictine monastery in 1949. After studying metal work and sculpture in Belgium, France and Germany he returned to Glenstal Abbey to set up his own workshop where he created liturgical and personal artworks for over 30 years. His artwork can be found in churches and private collections throughout Ireland and England. Benedict also began a lifelong teaching and mentoring engagement with Limerick School of Art and Design. Benedict’s artwork has been exhibited at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, the RHA, in London, New York and the Salzburg Biennale.
The Glenstal Conference is in its 47th year. It will take place in Glenstal from 29th June until 1st July. It began at a time when it was not easy for church leaders to meet without attracting adverse comment; Glenstal was a ‘safe place’ where trust and friendship could grow and flourish. Forty seven years on, the inter-church climate has changed considerably and participants include theologically alert lay persons from all traditions alongside church leaders and academics and members of the monastic community.
The Glenstal Conference is in its 47th year. It will take place in Glenstal from 29th June until 1st July. It began at a time when it was not easy for church leaders to meet without attracting adverse comment; Glenstal was a ‘safe place’ where trust and friendship could grow and flourish. Forty seven years on, the inter-church climate has changed considerably and participants include theologically alert lay persons from all traditions alongside church leaders and academics and members of the monastic community.
This year’s theme is Bread for the World: Mission Imperative, reflecting the 100th anniversary of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference, regarded as the starting point of the modern ecumenical movement. . It will be explored through Bible reflection led by Dr Lavinia Byrne, known to many from her writing and her reflections on BBC 4’s Thought for the Day. The plenary sessions will be addressed by Dr Pete Ward of King’s College, London, and editor of Mass Culture: the interface of Eucharist and Mission. On Wednesday afternoon, a panel of ‘local’ speakers, Father John Anih, Dr Brian Callan and Mrs Helen Freeburn, will address specific aspects of the theme, ‘earthing’ it in the Irish situation. A significant amount of time for discussion among the participants is built into the programme. Brother Martin Browne, Headmaster of Glenstal School, will reflect on the process of the Conference.
The thinking behind the choice of this theme and those of last year, Change of Climate: breaking bread on a fragile earth, and the previous year, Love bade me welcome – the costly grace of hospitality, has been along the lines that Christians very often use inter-faith, inter-cultural and other issues to distance them from issues closer to home and among themselves. Relationships with each other and the faith-full practice of the Christian way of life have implications for the world in which we live. We will be reflecting on the Eucharist in the context of proclaiming the Gospel.
Those interested in attending the Conference should contact
Father Senan Furlong OSB
Registration Secretary
Glenstal Abbey
Murroe
Co. Limerick
Email: ecumenical@glenstal.org
On Wednesday, 29 October 2008, the monks of Glenstal Abbey elected Br Mark Patrick Hederman OSB as Abbot for a term of eight years.
On Wednesday, 29 October 2008, the monks of Glenstal Abbey elected Br Mark Patrick Hederman OSB as Abbot for a term of eight years. Abbot Patrick is a native of Co. Limerick and has been a member of the community for forty-five years. Abbot Patrick succeeds Abbot Christopher Dillon OSB, who is retiring after sixteen years in office.
Mark Patrick Hederman was born in Ballingarry, Co. Limerick. A former pupil and headmaster of the school, he has also taught in America and Nigeria. He studied philosophy and theology in France and has written a number of books. He is the monastery librarian.