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In November we Remember

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Join us for a meditative reflection on creation and how we can not only respond but try to deeply understand what loss and grief in nature is saying to us.

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Advent Meditation Series

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Thursday, November 30th – Advent Meditation Series “The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before… So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running.” —Jan L. Richardson, artist   Suggested donation:  €5.00 (to support the work of the […]

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Advent Meditation Series

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Thursday, December 7th – Advent Meditation Series “Let’s approach Christmas with an expectant hush, rather than a last-minute rush.” —Anonymous Suggested donation:  €5.00 (to support the work of the Centre)       We invite you to join us for the 2nd evening of reflection and meditation during the season of Advent Advent is a time […]

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Advent Meditation Series

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Thursday, December 14th – Advent Meditation Series “Light's glory is to dispel darkness. Christ has illumined you with wisdom and the fire of his presence. It has been sparked and kindled in you. Let it blaze.” ― Caryll Houselander, A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander Suggested donation:  €5.00 (to support […]

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Saturday, December 16th Sacred Circle Dance “If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance.”  George Carlin Facilitators:  Terry Hennessy, Betty White  Join Terry and Betty for an enriching experience of circle dance.  They will lead you in simple dance steps to beautiful music. It is a type of dance where […]

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Winter Solstice – Turning towards the Light

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Thursday, December 21st Winter Solstice – Turning towards the Light  It is here, between the darkness, and the light, that we wait…John Matthews Admission: €15.00 (incl tea/coffee) We invite you to join with us as we celebrate the re-birth of our star the sun and the birth of Christ the Light of the World. From […]

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Bring joy and harmony to your mind, body and heart. Easy steps to beautiful music guided by Terry Hennessy and Betty White. Circle dancing is an ancient tradition common to many cultures.  It formed part of special occasions and rituals. Sacred dance helps bring about harmony between body, mind and spirit and creates a real […]

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Lenten Meditation Series (In person and Online event)

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Join us over three evenings for reflection, compassion practices and sharing during the Lent: Thursday, February 29th  “If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.” Rumi Yeshua says: If they say to you: ‘Where do you come from?’                                 say to them: ‘We come from the Light. Admission for each session €5.00 […]

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Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy (Part 1 of 4)

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ST BRIGID AND HER FEAST DAY IN IRISH TRADITION Mount St Anne’s in collaboration With Solas Bhride Centre, Kildare offer a Spring Online Course “Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy" Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, is recently retired as Associate Professor of Irish Folklore and Ethnology at UCD. She was Director of the MA in […]

Lenten Meditation Series (Part 2)

Online

Join us over three evenings for reflection, compassion practices and sharing during the Lent: Thursday, March 7th “If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.” Rumi Yeshua says: If they say to you: ‘Where do you come from?’                                 say to them: ‘We come from the Light. Admission for each session €5.00 […]

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Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy (Part 2 of 4)

Online

THE SPIRIT OF ST. BRIGID IN OUR CONTEMPORARY WORLD Mount St Anne’s in collaboration With Solas Bhride Centre, Kildare offer a Spring Online Course “Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy" Sr. Rita Minehan is a Brigidine Sister and founding member of Solas Bhride Spirituality Centre in Kildare. She is the author of Rekindling the […]

Lenten Meditation Series (Part 3)

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Join us over three evenings for reflection, compassion practices and sharing during the Lent: Thursday, March 14th “If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.” Rumi Yeshua says: If they say to you: ‘Where do you come from?’                                 say to them: ‘We come from the Light. Admission for each session €5.00 […]

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Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy (Part 3 of 4)

Online

DECODING ST. BRIGID (Eoghan Corry) Mount St Anne’s in collaboration With Solas Bhride Centre, Kildare offer a Spring Online Course “Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy" Eoghan Corry is the lead travel commentator in Ireland, as well as being a historian, author and broadcaster. Eoghan will draw on his historical background and his travel […]

Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Bring joy and harmony to your mind, body and heart. Easy steps to beautiful music guided by Terry Hennessy and Betty White. Circle dancing is an ancient tradition common to many cultures.  It formed part of special occasions and rituals. Sacred dance helps bring about harmony between body, mind and spirit and creates a real […]

March 21st Equinox

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

We invite you to join with us as we mark the Spring Equinox, a point of balance in the year’s yearly cycle. We celebrate the aliveness and vitality that comes with spring.     Venue:  Solas Bhride Spirituality Centre Time:   7.30pm – 9.00pm  ‖    Admission:  €15   ‖   In-Person Event  ‖   Booking Essential

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Bring joy and harmony to your mind, body and heart. Easy steps to beautiful music guided by Terry Hennessy and Betty White. Circle dancing is an ancient tradition common to many cultures.  It formed part of special occasions and rituals. Sacred dance helps bring about harmony between body, mind and spirit and creates a real […]

Celebrating St Brigid in Music, Song and Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

For St. Brigid’s Day 2021 the Department of Foreign Affairs, in conjunction with the Irish Traditional Music Archive, commissioned performers to create new compositions in the traditional idiom

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A Celebration of Bealtaine – Marking the beginning of Summer

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

A Celebration of Bealtaine “Just living is not enough” said the butterfly “One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower” - Hans Christian Anderson “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi In our Bealtaine celebration we look forward to welcoming summer and marking May as the […]

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Bring joy and harmony to your mind, body and heart. Easy steps to beautiful music guided by Terry Hennessy and Betty White. Circle dancing is an ancient tradition common to many cultures.  It formed part of special occasions and rituals. Sacred dance helps bring about harmony between body, mind and spirit and creates a real […]

€15

An International Pilgrimage – Come walk in the footsteps of St. Brigid in Kildare Town, June 15th 2024.

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

This special International Pilgrimage marks the 1500th anniversary of the death of St. Brigid.  We will commemorate and celebrate St. Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy. A special welcome to all overseas pilgrims/visitors "Pilgrimage is a gentle invitation to spend time in reflection, to visit sites with a long spiritual heritage, to slow the […]

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Summer Solstice: Celebrating Mid-summer Light – Solstice time

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Without the sun (at its precise distance from us) there would be no life on earth. Without the tilt of our axis, there would be no seasons. These are the cosmic truths within which we have our life, our breath, our being. All that occurs within the course of a year is but an outworking of this relationship with […]

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St Brigid and Sisterly Solidarity

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Born of a king and a slave and raised by a druid, Brigid integrates opposites and stands as the sister of all, regardless of class, ethnicity, or religious affiliation.

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Day of Meditation: To Hope and Act with Creation

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

We invite you to a reflection day on the theme of Hope and Action with Creation.

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player.” — Albert Einstein Join us for the first of our Autumn Dance which will form one of our programme of events during the Season of Creation. “Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated […]

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Autumn Equinox/ Culture Night

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Autumn’s invitation to us is to let go of what no longer serves us so that the new may emerge

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Season of Creation Meditation: Part II – To Hope and Act with Creation

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

We invite you to join with us in the second of our meditation series during this Season of Creation– the annual ecumenical celebration of prayer and action for our common home.

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

“Dance is meditation in movement, a walking into silence where every movement becomes prayer.”Bernhard WosienJoin us for the second Circle dance evening of our Autumn Programme of events.Circle dancing is an ancient tradition common to many cultures.  It formed part of special occasions and rituals. It is a type of dance where anyone can join […]

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Samhain and the Feast of All Saints and All Souls

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Samhain, a threshold moment, is traditionally the beginning of the Celtic year. Samhain marks the end of the old and the beginning of a whole new cycle.

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

“I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.”Ruth St. DenisWe invite you to join us for Circle Dance evening during this month of remembrance.Circle dancing is an ancient tradition common to many cultures.  It formed part of special occasions and rituals. It is a […]

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Sacred Circle Dance

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

“Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”T. S. ElliotWhy not take some time out and gif yourself with a sacred circle dance morning, allowing yourself to get in touch with the “still point” that is open to the Mystery we celebrate at Christmas. /*! […]

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Winter Solstice: Turning towards the Light

Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Ireland

In times of darkness, we are invited to turn towards the Light, to seek the Light, to welcome the Light.We invite you to join us as we celebrate the Winter Solstice and the Christmas Season.  Let us welcome together the in-breaking of light into the darkness.  This session will include a short input on the […]

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