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 […]

Welcome to the first of our Advent reflections on this First Sunday of Advent. Advent is a time of waiting, of preparation, reflection and prayer. We are waiting for Isaiah’s Wonderful counsellor, mighty God, everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Mary McDaid leads this reflection on ‘Peace’ on this First Sunday of Advent

Fr La’s weekly ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg.   Along the Pilgrim Path this week I descended, as I usually do, to St Brigid’s Well. Before I got to say my prayer, I found myself captivated by the light. First it was the shadows cast by the branches of […]

Fr La’s weekly reflection ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg.     As autumn moves toward winter, the succession of flowers that brought so much colour along the path through spring and summer has come to an end. Thank God for the mosses that now have come into their own, […]

The Lough Derg Annual Draw takes place on Monday 30th November 2020. Draw closing date 20th November to be in with the chance to win a top prize of €10,000 and runner up prizes of €5,000 – €500. 

Fr La’s weekly reflection ‘Pause and Ponder’ from along the Pilgrim Path at Lough Derg. In this autumn season, each time I return to the Pilgrim Path I become more aware of the quiet company of a wonderful range of fungi in the shade beneath the trees. Most of them are modest, emerging quietly from […]