Calendar Of Events
Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy (Part 2 of 4)
OnlineTHE 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 Flame, a Pilgrimage in the footsteps of Brigid of Kildare. Wednesdays: 13th March 2024 19. 00-21.00 (Irish Time) on ZOOM €50 for full course To book a place please email: secretary@mountstannes.com
Lenten Meditation Series (Part 3)
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandJoin 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 'But there is another kind of seeing that involves a letting go. When I see this way, I sway transfixed and emptied.' Annie Dillard 'When the soul awakens all values change. All is seen now from the soul's vantage point.' Sara Sviri Holy Week is almost upon us. In his book Dreamtime John Moriarty wrote: 'The Triduum Sacrum is a great frontier. And persons undergoing the Triduum Sacrum aren't only a frontier, they are a frontier, of human seeking. They seek not to colonise, rather to be colonised, recolonized by soul, by God. Than that there is no greater adventure.' We are all- people of all faiths and none- called to be 'frontiers' of Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Love in our world today. Join us as we sit together to reflect, meditate, and pray.
Brigid: A Woman, A Life, A Legacy (Part 3 of 4)
OnlineDECODING 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 experience to present a picture of St. Brigid as a saint and demonstrate how her influence and relevance still echoes today. Wednesdays: 20th March 2024 19. 00-21.00 (Irish Time) on ZOOM €50 for full course To book a place please email: secretary@mountstannes.com
Sacred Circle Dance
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandBring 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 sense of belonging and a feeling of togetherness. Dancing in a circle to beautiful music helps to develop a sense of community and offers moments of stillness, peace and healing for ourselves, our families, and our planet.
March 21st Equinox
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandWe 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
Sacred Circle Dance
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandBring 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 sense of belonging and a feeling of togetherness. Dancing in a circle to beautiful music helps to develop a sense of community and offers moments of stillness, peace and healing for ourselves, our families, and our planet.
‘Why did St Brigit choose Kildare? The power of a religious landscape’.
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandFurther details to follow
Celebrating St Brigid in Music, Song and Dance
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandFor 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
A Celebration of Bealtaine – Marking the beginning of Summer
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandA 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 month of Mary. Time: 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Admission: €15 | In-Person Event | Booking Essential
Sacred Circle Dance
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandBring 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 sense of belonging and a feeling of togetherness. Dancing in a circle to beautiful music helps to develop a sense of community and offers moments of stillness, peace and healing for ourselves, our families, and our planet.
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, IrelandThis 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 pace and feed the spirit." R Minehan - Rekindling the Flame Revised Edition. Pilgrims are invited to gather at Solas Bhríde Spirituality Centre, Tully Road, Kildare town, R51 Y281 at 10.00 a.m on Saturday, June 15th. Registration and tea/coffee on arrival. Below is a brief outline of the programme for the day. Edit 10.00 a.m.Arrival 10.30 a.m.Setting the scene for the pilgrimage 11.15 a.m.A short walk on The Curragh Plain (St. Brigid’s Pastures) - Bus will transport pilgrims to and from The Curragh Plain 12.15 p.m.Visit to St. Brigid’s Cathedral - site of St. Brigid’s double monastery Visit to St. Brigid’s Parish Church – relic and icon. 1.30 p.m.Return to Solas Bhríde for light lunch. 2.15 p.m.Walk to St. Brigid’s wells. 3.15 p.m.Return to Solas Bhríde for closing ritual. The pilgrimage will conclude at 4.00 p.m. The total length of the pilgrim walk in the afternoon will be approximately 2km. The day will be interspersed with reflection, prayers, storytelling, poetry and music. Cost: €30.00 (incl. of light lunch) Kildare is the homecoming for all who wish to walk in the footsteps of St. Brigid. Increasing numbers of visitors/pilgrims from all over the world are drawn to Kildare to walk the sites associated with her. Come! Be part of the unfolding of the legacy of St. Brigid. A warm welcome awaits you in Kildare on this special day of pilgrimage.
Summer Solstice: Celebrating Mid-summer Light – Solstice time
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandWithout 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 the light of life. Hope Horton -Reflections on the Summer Solstice. The summer solstice invites us to celebrate the nourishing light of the Sun and The Light within each of us. In ancient Ireland, at this time when the sun was at its most powerful it was considered a sacred time. Our ancestors built monuments (Lugh Gur and Newgrange for example) aligning with the annual phases of the sun. At this mid-summer point, we celebrate and appreciate the nourishment we and planet Earth receive from the sun.
St Brigid and Sisterly Solidarity
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandBorn 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.
Day of Meditation: To Hope and Act with Creation
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandWe invite you to a reflection day on the theme of Hope and Action with Creation.
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 in an individual.” Isadora Duncan 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 sense of belonging and a feeling of togetherness. Dancing in a circle to beautiful music helps to develop a sense of community and offers moments of stillness, peace and healing for ourselves, our families, and our planet. It is a type of dance where anyone can join in. It is inclusive, enjoyable, and FUN. “We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive…and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.” D. H. Lawrence
Season of Creation Meditation Series – to Hope and Act with Creation: Meditation Part I
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandThis meditation series includes three stand-alone sessions, each including a short input on the theme, music, meditation, reflections. We would be delighted for you to join us for all three.
Autumn Equinox/ Culture Night
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandAutumn’s invitation to us is to let go of what no longer serves us so that the new may emerge
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, IrelandWe 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.
Season of Creation Meditation: Part III – To Hope and Act with Creation.
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandWe invite you to join with us in the last of our meditation series during this Season of Creation.
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 in. It is inclusive, enjoyable, and FUN.Sacred dance helps bring about harmony between body, mind and spirit and creates a real sense of belonging and a feeling of togetherness. Dancing in a circle to beautiful music offers moments of stillness, peace and healing for ourselves, our families, and our planet.“Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self, the person you are.”Melissa Hayden
Samhain and the Feast of All Saints and All Souls
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandSamhain, 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.
November Meditation Series: In November We Remember – Part I – We Remember our Ancestors
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandWeek 1: We Remember our Ancestors: This evening we will take time to remember our ancestors
November Meditation Series: In November We Remember – Part II – We Remember Planet Earth
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandThe loss of biodiversity and the extinction and threatened extinction of many life-forms.
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 type of dance where anyone can join in. It is inclusive, enjoyable, and FUN.Sacred dance helps bring about harmony between body, mind and spirit and creates a real sense of belonging and a feeling of togetherness. Dancing in a circle to beautiful music offers moments of stillness, peace and healing for ourselves, our families, and our planet.Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”Friedrich Nietzsche
November Meditation Series: In November We Remember – Part III – We Remember Personal/Existential Loss
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandThe “Letting Go” in the lived experience of everyday life.
Advent Meditation Series: Incarnation in the New Cosmic Story: Week 1
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandThis meditation series offers three sessions both online and in person. Week 1
Advent Meditation Series: Incarnation in the New Cosmic Story: Week 2
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandWeek 2 of the Advent Meditation Series
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. /*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} 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 sense of belonging and a feeling of togetherness. Dancing in a circle to beautiful music helps to develop a sense of community and offers moments of stillness, peace and healing for ourselves, our families, and our planet. It is a type of dance where anyone can join in. It is inclusive, enjoyable, and FUN.“Dance is an art that allows all of our body to express itself beyond boundaries. Sacred dance, ritual dance, and many other forms of dance allow individuals and communities to experience the grace and joy of being incarnated into a body.” Trauma therapist Dr. Jamie Marich“We can’t choose the music that life gives us, but we can choose how to dance to it.” Unknown "When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.”Normani Kordei
Advent Meditation Series: Incarnation in the New Cosmic Story: Week 3
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandIncarnation in the New Cosmic Story-Week 3
Winter Solstice: Turning towards the Light
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandIn 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 theme, music, reflections meditation and compassion practices, and sharing."Darkness can become the tending place in which our longings for healing, justice, and peace grow and come to birth." Jan L. Richardson"….to share in creating with God, we give birth, too, when we create with our hands, offer hospitality, work for justice, or teach a child. We share in giving birth whenever we offer ourselves for healing, for delight, for transformation, for peace and we become, as German mystic Meister Eckhart wrote @mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.’ Jan L. Richardson
Sacred Dance
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandBring joy and harmony to your heart at this springtime of the year.
Sacred Dance
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandSacred Dance, also known as circle dance, is a blend of traditional and choreographed dances which bring communities and people together.
Spring Equinox
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandEquinoxes are the only two times yearly that the Sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us on Earth!
Lenten Meditation Series
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandSolitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
Lenten Meditation Series 2
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandLenten Meditation Series part 2
Lenten Meditation Series part 3
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandLent is a time for living on the edge, poised for the next moment of life.
Celebrate Earth Day – Our Power, our Planet
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandThe theme for Earth Day 2025 is “Our Power, Our Planet.” It is a call to unite behind renewable energy.
A celebration of Bealtaine – Marking the beginning of Summer
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, Irelandn ancient Celtic tradition Bealtaine was a festival celebrating the beginning of summer.
Philip Scott & Friends – A Night of Acoustic Folk Music in Aid of Teach Dara
Solas Bhride Centre Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Tully Road,, Kildare Town, Co. Kildare, IrelandPhilip Scott & Friends - A Night of Acoustic Folk Music in Aid of Teach Dara
A Mid-Summer Pilgrimage in the footsteps of St. Brigid
Solas Bhride WebsiteIn every sacred journey, there is a hidden space we must find, a place along the path where we will begin to understand the deep mystery of our pilgrimage.
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