In this week’s Pilgrim Post, Fr La reflects on – ‘Disconnecting in order to re-connect’. This is what pilgrimage is all about and it’s a quality also of daily prayer.

Fr La shares his reflection following the historic event this past weekend where more than one thousand people registered to ‘do Lough Derg from where they were’. Fr La is speaking before the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in St Patrick’s Basilica on Lough Derg.  

A reflection from the Prior as he continues to keep the tradition of prayer on Lough Derg during these different and challenging times. Prior’s Prayer to St Davog O blessed St Davog, faithful disciple of Patrick the Apostle and father of the Lough Derg Family, in this out-of-the-way corner of God’s creation you heard and […]

A moving reflection from the Prior, Fr La, which touches on loneliness and moving into that deeper place.

 

On 1st June Mgr La Flynn, Prior of Lough Derg, resumes his post on Station Island, to maintain the tradition of prayer that h as endured there from season to season over the centuries, until pilgrims can return with confidence when restrictions ease.

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In Mary’s month, here on Station Island, bright Mayflowers offering their own kind of prayer and praise at the edge of the water. In memory and in hope, wherever we may be, we bring our humble praise and prayer, and we take our stand, or we kneel, at The Water’s Edge. Prior La Flynn

Prior La Flynn’s update on the Lough Derg May Retreat Season 2020 in light of  the ongoing Irish Government guidelines in relation to Covid-19.  

  Three April daffodils, blooming here on Station Island with no one to admire them, recall Patrick Kavanagh’s sense of God present in the energy of nature, celebrated again and again in his poetry as in these lines from ‘The Great Hunger’: …God the Father in a tree; The Holy Spirit is the rising sap; […]