Charity Number CHY 00076 | Registered Charity Number (RCN): 20000172
OUR SPIRITAN FAMILY
One Heart, One Spirit
The Spiritan Rule of Life
A Memorial Mass for deceased Spiritans will be offered on Sunday, 22nd November 2020 at 3.00pm.
The Mass will be via web-cam from the Church of the Holy Spirit, Kimmage Manor. See:
https://www.mcnmedia.tv/cameras/holy-spirit-parish-church-kimmage.The Mass can alternatively be viewed on Zoom. To join, click on:
https://zoom.us
(You may also join directly from the Zoom application - IF already installed - or via: https://zoom.us, click JOIN A MEETING and input the Meeting ID: 938 7099 7059 and the Passcode: 246790.
NB. Participants joining us via Zoom will have their camera switched off and their audio muted by default. You are kindly requested NOT to unmute your microphone as this can greatly decrease sound quality.)
Please extend this invitation to others who may wish to join.
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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:
