Charity Number CHY 00076 | Registered Charity Number (RCN): 20000172
OUR SPIRITAN FAMILY
One Heart, One Spirit
The Spiritan Rule of Life
The re-scheduled annual Memorial Sunday Mass was celebrated from the Church of the Holy Spirit, Kimmage Manor on Sunday, 22nd November 2020.
The Mass remembered deceased Spiritans of the Irish Province, especially those who had died since June 2019.
- September 28, 2020
- August 12, 2020
COVID-19 has affected most aspects of people’s lives in South Africa, a vast country with some 58 million people. To date there have been well over half-a-million cases…
- August 10, 2020
Parish administration is not what the priest in charge ought to be about; others can carry out that task. We* got energy in facilitating and re-imagining with parishioners…
- August 9, 2020
At the heart of the ministry in Knock is the sacrament of reconciliation. A priest often goes long periods without hearing a confession but in Knock there are always long lines of pilgrims waiting.
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:
