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 […]

Welcome to the third of our Advent reflections on this Third Sunday of Advent. Lisa Russell, a regular pilgrim to Lough Derg and member of the Youth 2000 Leadership Team, leads us in today’s reflection. Lisa extends the invitation to pause – to reflect on our relationship with God and with those around us as […]

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. Old Roots, New Shoots Now that winter has stripped back the foliage bare branches offer their own insights. I see how new growth has sprouted up from the stump of a felled tree. Along the trunk of another tree tossed over […]

Welcome to the second of our Advent reflections on this Second Sunday of Advent. Fr Eamonn Conway, a member of the pastoral team for the Three Day Pilgrimage on Lough Derg and Head of Theology and Religious Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, leads us in today’s reflection – “In the first two […]