Icon Writing Retreat

St Mary's the Claddagh is hosting an icon-writing retreat

Date:   

• Saturday 20 June, 2026 8am - 6pm.  Starting with Holy Mass, and praying the Angelus at 12 and Divine Mercy chaplet at 3pm, and

• Sunday 21 June, from 9:30am - for finishing touches and varnishing, finishing with blessing the icons and Holy Mass at 12-noon.

Programme

• First-time participants will write the icon "Mother of God holding the Holy Spirit"  
• Experienced participants will choose from St Rita or the Good Shepherd .

Cost:  €80 / €90

No experience or art skills required - instruction and all materials are provided.

The process is called icon-writing,  not painting, because the end product is a sacred work, and visual theology, not just a painting. 

Spiritual patron  Fr Wojciech Szynk OP

Instructor:    Joanna Alina Stempel OVd

To enrol, or for more information,  phone Julian Drapiewski, 086 81 85 188.