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Posted on October 12, 2018

“Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio” – plainchant setting of Prayer to St Michael the Archangel from Heiligenkreuz Abbey

  From Heiligenkreuz Abbey via the blog of Fr Edmund Waldstein. Latin text: Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque,…

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Posted on July 16, 2017July 16, 2017

sunlight through stained glass – St Anthony’s Chapel, Franciscan Friary, Clonmel

More photos of this chapel’s glass here More from the Abbey here

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Posted on June 25, 2017June 25, 2017

“A kind of gospel in glass”: stained glass from the Church of the Holy Trinity, Fethard, Tipperary.

Every so often I have blogged pictures of stained glass, mainly from various Tipperary locales but also from further afield. I have found that this has led me to discoveries like the windows of…

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Posted on February 5, 2017February 5, 2017

Stained Glass of Holycross Abbey, Holycross, Tipperary

Holycross Abbey is one of the best known monastic sites in Ireland, a Cistercian abbey restored between 1970 and 1975. I highly recommend a drive from Thurles to Holycross to Cashel(via…

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Posted on January 21, 2017November 19, 2018

Stained Glass of Augustinian Priory, Fethard

(edit 19th November 2018 – I realised lately that the Our Lady of Fatima window is not “by Harry Clarke” but “by Harry Clarke Studios. Apologies for the error. I…

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Posted on December 22, 2016

Thoughts on Silence From Augustinian Abbey, Fethard, Tipperary

  I have blogged here and here and here and here and here about silence. I have, in more pretentious moments, contemplated essaying a philosophy of silence. How much have I actually sat in silence? How much have I actually…

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