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.
- December 22, 2020
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The opening some weeks ago of a huge ‘new’ cathedral in Nsukka brought back so many memories.
I was one of 11 young Irish Spiritan priests who arrived in Nigeria’s Port Harcourt in 1963, a year after I had been ordained and having completed induction and an Igbo language course.
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: