Over 400 relatives of deceased Columbans attended Cemetery Sunday in Dalgan Park on Sunday 11th June 2023. The Mass was celebrated by Fr Donal Hogan with Columbans in Ireland concelebrating. The Prayers of the Faithful were led by Ciaran Murray. His Columban uncle...
The leader of the Irish Church has paid tribute to the late Fr Aidan Lakin’s research on St Patrick saying it has helped broaden his vision of the saint and helped him to see St Patrick in a new context. In his address as he formally launched, ‘The Spiritual...
Columban Missionaries in Britain are celebrating Laudato Si’ Week by following in the footsteps of St Columban and reflecting on ‘the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor’. A pilgrim group of ordained and lay Columban missionaries and co-workers, led by...
We are delighted that the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, will launch, ‘The Spiritual Journey of St Patrick’ by Columban missionary Fr Aidan Larkin in Dalgan on 30th May 2023 at 7pm. Fr Aidan died in 2019. He was working...
Migrants and asylum seekers arriving in our community come with invisible wounds left by violence and persecution in their home countries, writes Cynthia Gonzalez of the Columban border ministries in the US. Their wounds get cut even deeper by the other...
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...