Charity Number CHY 00076 | Registered Charity Number (RCN): 20000172
OUR SPIRITAN FAMILY
One Heart, One Spirit
The Spiritan Rule of Life
- February 7, 2022
- September 5, 2022
Memorial to the late Fr Aengus Finucane and Fr Jack Finucane unveiled in Limerick city in August 2022
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A public exhibition telling the Spiritan (Holy Ghost) story in a number of countries in addition to Church tours. as Angola, Ethiopia and Kenya.
- August 21, 2022
On Saturday 10th September 2022 some 50 Spiritan missionaries mark the Silver, Golden, Diamond, Platinum or 75th Jubilees of their profession. The Profession celebration in Kimmage Manor, the first such since the Covid-19 pandemic, covers anniversaries that fell in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Among the Golden Jubilarians is Michael Liston C.S.Sp. (pictured) who was professed in 1972.
- July 5, 2022
On a recent visit to the Philippines, Brendan Carr C.S.Sp. – accompanied by Fr Michael Vinh Dình Nguyên, a Spiritan from Vietnam who completed formation in the Philippines – met Ambassador William Carlos and Deputy Head of Mission, Brian McCrohan, in the Irish Embassy in Manila.
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Fr Andrzej (pictured) succeeded Fr Edward Flynn in the role 2015. He is now in his final year in Geneva. From Poland, he had previously served elsewhere in Europe, including Croatia, as well as in Sénégal, and his experience includes the areas of JPIC and inter-religious dialogue.
- June 7, 2022
On Saturday 4th June 2022 some thirty Spiritan missionaries marked the Silver, Golden or Diamond Jubilees of their Ordination to the priesthood.
We have 17 en-suite bedrooms 13 single and 4 twin rooms. We supply bedlinen and towels in all rooms and hair dryer and iron on request. Houses are non-smoking, but there is a designated smoking area.
Workshops at An Tobar focus on wellbeing (meditation, mindfulness, ecology and holistic living etc.). Retreats focus on spiritual accompaniment, school retreats, and prayer and spirituality.
Every Sunday the Spiritan Community celebrate a reflective Eucharist at 10:30am - all are welcome. There are also ritual celebrations at key moments in the Liturgical year and in the cosmic cycle.
An Tobar regularly offers ecology focused workshops and courses. As well as this, groups/individuals can expect to find welcome, hospitality and healing & hope in our beautiful woodlands & walkways.
An Tobar is the Retreat & Spirituality Centre of the Irish Spiritan Province. It is located in Ardbraccan near Navan where the novitiate for Spiritan Brothers was based in the 1950s / ’60s and where the Province maintained a working farm for many years. Today the grounds form a pleasant backdrop to the Centre which is overseen by a small Spiritan community and team.
The Centre, which has been operational since the 1980s, offers:
