This week along the Pilrim Path Fr La introduces St Brigid at Lough Derg on her feast day, 1st February 2021.   She sat down there, they say, waiting for a boat to take her over. The wonderful working of the imagination that sees in a boulder the shape of a chair – and then […]

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. This week’s reflection is called ‘Fir Trees First’. Fr La reflects Fir Trees First  A cold, wet start today at Patrick the Pilgrim. I am kitted out for the weather, but the rain is heavy. I pull up the hood and […]

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. This week’s reflection is called ‘Latching on to Lichens’. Latching on to Lichens The snow left several days ago. How come it still survives on one particular group of trees? A closer look reveals the deception and solves the puzzle: Lichen, […]

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. This week’s reflection is called ‘Frosty Lockdown’. Frosty Lockdown The frost has not let go all day, holding nature in cold lockdown. Some sunlight for a time dispelled the gloom, but in the end it did not make much difference. The […]

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. This week’s reflection is called ‘Day of New Beginning’. Day of New Beginning Here is where it all began: Saints Island, an out-of-the-way corner of God’s creation, at this furthest point along the Path. Here Davog found a place where he […]

A New Year message from Fr La Flynn

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. This week’s reflection is called ‘Muddy Tracks’.   Muddy Tracks After days of rain, the going is soft in several places along the Pilgrim Path, and the mud holds signs of some recent traffic. Here, sunlight and shadow highlight several tyre […]

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. This week’s reflection is called ‘Midwinter Holly’.   Perhaps it’s the shiny leaves catching the mid-winter sun, or It may be that Christmas is near, but today the holly is claiming my attention. Here beside the path, or silhouetted there against […]

This week’s Fourth Sunday of Advent Reflection is brought to you by Patrick Treacy, a Senior Counsel, who lives with his wife Linda and four children at their Centre for Domestic Spirituality called Integritas, near Kilkenny. He just recently developed a love for Lough Derg when himself and his wife Linda were part of the […]

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg.   I am on pilgrimage through a frosty morning. From above at Davog’s Seat, the sanctuary emerges from the morning mist. Below on the Path, clean winter sunlight highlights a golden treescape. And all along the way, light and frost in […]