Spend Time in Glendalough to Pray, Relax
or Take Time Out in a Serene Environment.

Published: 6th March 2019

A NEW BEGINNING

Our musings have been lying dormant for a long time.  Now that spring has come it is a good time to begin again. Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent in Christian churches a...

Published: 1st January 2019

Welcome Blessing

May the grace of new beginnings enliven your soul with possibility and promise.

May the valley sing to welcome you and the grace of home be yours.

May a river of delight rush through ...

Published: 26th June 2018

HOLY ISLAND

Lough Derg on the river Shannon is one of Ireland’s great lakes.  There are many islands in the lake but one in particular is well known.  It is called Inis Cealtra which means church islan...

Published: 11th June 2018

ORDINARY TIME

Today, the church’s liturgical calendar goes back into ordinary time.  There is a feeling of getting back down to earth after celebrating some of the great feasts of the Christian faith.  I...

Published: 4th June 2018

A LOCAL SAINT

Today the 3rd of June marks the fourteen hundreth anniversary of the death of Kevin who died in Glendalough in 618. He was a hermit who lived all his life on the shore of the upper lake deep within...

Published: 30th May 2018

SPIRIT TIME

As the month of May comes to an end, the whole countryside is adorned with the white blossoms of the hawthorn tree.  It is the time of year when the words of the poet Elizabeth Browning captures t...

Published: 21st May 2018

COMMUNION

The road from Laragh to Rathdrum in Wicklow is one of the most beautiful in Ireland.  It is particularly lovely in early summer when the fresh green leaves explode into life on the trees and again...

Published: 29th April 2018

THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES

Last Sunday, John’s Gospel used the metaphor of shepherd and sheep for Jesus’ teaching that God cares for all people. A walk in a field today came upon two dead lambs.  All shepherds a...

Published: 22nd April 2018

THE CALL OF THE EARTH

Today, Good Shepherd Sunday is also Earth Day 2018.  The two are closely related. The theme for Earth Day this year is: “End Plastic Pollution.”  The call to all is to rise up, sign u...

Published: 10th April 2018

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Back in the mid west of Ireland last weekend, it was all about place and family.  “Home is where the heart is” is a familiar saying. The mind travels all over the place but the heart i...