The Missionary Sisters of St Columban elected a new congregational team at their General Assembly in Knock, Co Mayo. The new Congregational Leader is Sr Anne Carbon from the Philippines. The leadership team is Sr Margaret Murphy, Sr Josephine Hong and Sr Cho Young...
Ten minutes walk from Dalgan’s front door, in the eastern corner of the grounds, is the Columban cemetery. Here more than 350 Irish Columbans, including our two co-founders, Bishop Edward Galvin (died February 1956) and Fr John Blowick (died June 1972), are buried,...
The Columban Ecological Institute’s 2023 Summer School which will be held at An Tairseach in Wicklow Town. The theme of the six-day residential summer school retreat is ‘Every Bush Aflame – Pollination and Pollinators'. It will be given by Dr John Feehan. Booking...
On Saturday 22nd April 2023, the Dalgan class of 1973 celebrated the 50th anniversary of their ordination to the priesthood. While celebrations also took place in Fiji and the Philippines, here in Ireland three Columbans came together to celebrate the happy...
Malate Church in Manila, a parish run by the Columbans, was officially declared an “important cultural property” by the National Museum of the Philippines on 22 April 2023 in recognition of its historical and cultural role. The 435-year-old church is officially...
The grounds of Dalgan Park are currently open to the public between 10am and 4pm daily. (Winter time hours) Mass in the College Chapel in Dalgan is now open to the public again at 9:30am every Sunday. Situated three miles south of Navan on five acres of parklands...
A reflection by Fr John McEvoy in Fiji to wish all our supporters, families and friends a Happy Easter! "He is not here." Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 I can spend hours wandering through graveyards, reading dates and names on headstones. I find it...
Irish Times columnist, Miriam Lord, has revealed that a book on St Patrick by Columban missionary, Fr Aidan Larkin, was gifted by the Taoiseach to US President Joe Biden when Leo Varadkar visited Washington for St Patrick’s Day. Derry-born Fr Aidan died in 2019,...
Bishop Job Koo Yobi of Seoul Archdiocese paid tribute to the Columbans in his homily at Mass on Sunday 19 March 2023 which marked the opening of the Missionary Society of St Columban’s Interregional/Mission Unit (IRMU) meeting in Korea. In his homily, Bishop Yobi,...
Quite some time ago, I came across a quotation from Saint Patrick, and since then I use it in the confessional whenever a penitent struggles and worries about sins committed in the past and already sacramentally confessed, writes Fr Tom Cusack. When Saint Patrick’s...