Date: Thursday 24th September, 2026, 7.30pm –9.30pm
Loct: €10/Donation
Location : Croi Nua, Rosary Lane, Taylor’s Hill, Galway (H91WY2A)
Bookings: Email croinuacentre@gmail.com or phone 085 7829855
The Irish Bishops website has a set of parish resources for the Season of Creation 2026, which runs from 1 September to 4 October.
These are available from https://www.catholicbishops.ie/laudato-si/season-of-creation-2026 and include:
The Poor Clare community in Galway offers Monastic Experience Days for women who are interested in exploring the contemplative life within a monastic community.
Date: Saturday 19th September from 10am - 5pm
This is an opportunity to discover more about the daily rhythm of prayer, work, and community life lived by the Poor Clares. You may pray the Divine Office with the sisters, spend time in silent prayer, Adoration and reflection, and learn about the Poor Clare Order. There is also some informal conversation with the sisters, and time for questions and guidance in discernment.
For more information see www.poorclares.ie/monastic-experience-days
The Poor Clare Monastery in Galway City are hosting a Cherished Daughters Half-Day Retreat for women 18-40.
This gathering celebrates the God-given uniqueness of each woman in a spirit of faith, friendship, and sharing, providing a warm and welcoming space to connect and grow, and features featuring Louise Mc Guinness, co-director of Star of the Sea Retreat Centre in Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo.
Date: Sunday, Septmber 6 • 2 PM - 6 PM
Book on the CherishedDaughter's Eventbrite page.
A series of adoration sessions to pray for priestly vocations have been organised in the diocese in August / September 2026.
These will use a monstrance (ie host-display cabinet) that was blessed by Pope Leo in November 2025 for use in Ireland to aid prayer for diocesian priesthood.
Dates and times:
The Irish Dominican's have organised a guided 25km one-day pilgrimage camino (walk) in the Boyne Valley.
It is a day of Pilgrimage, Prayer, Brotherhood and Renewal, open to all men age 18+
Date: Saturday 12 September 2026.
Registration is at 7:30am at St Peter’s Church, Drogheda. The day will include:
Registration and more information, including practical details re accommodation, transport etc, is available on the Dominican's website.
The Blessing of Galway Bay is an annual tradition honouring the traditions associated with the fishing community based in the Claddagh, and their relationship with the God and the sea.
Date: Sunday 16 August 2026
3-7 pm: Community Summer BBQ at the Claddagh Snooker Hall and Claddagh Hall, featuring music, food, and Irish dancing.
7pm: Blessing of the Bay ceremony begins. Traditional boats (including Galway Hookers) will leave Claddagh Quay to sail out to Mutton Island for the blessing.
This Outdoor Retreat is a journey through the beautiful Burren with its spectacular limestone landscape, rare flora and ancient sacred sites. It is an opportunity to take time to renew your mind, body and spirit in the peace and beauty of creation.
This is a Residential retreat, with a option for day-attendance for participants who live nearby.
Dates: Friday 4 to Sunday 6 September, 2026
Location: The Burren, Co Clare - with accommodation at Red Gates, Killeen, Corofin
Information: phone Mary – 087 970 1130
Bookings, phone Des – 085 161 4951
The Irish branch of the worldwide Marriage Encounter movement are running a residential weekend workshop for married couples who are "seeking to improve communication and reconnect".
Date: 2 - 4 October 2026
Location: Focolare Centre, Prosperous, County Kildare
Bookings / more information: https://www.marriageencounter.ie/marriage-encounter-weekend
The Poor Clare sisters in Galway invite people to join them to celebrate the feast of St Clare (11 August).
Dates
Location: Poor Clare Chapel, Nuns' Island - H91 CAV2.
Entry is at the top of the road called "Nuns island", to the right of the NUIG Education building. The chapel entrance is to the right of the main door.
(*)Transitus is general name for an evening service of "passage" or "crossing over" - many Franciscan orders have particular prayers for it on special days.
Galway Community Voices is a singing skill-building and training programme open to adults interested in joining community or other choirs. It aims to:
This will help people who might like to join a church choir, or people who want to take their current church-choir to a higher level.
The programme has three modules, run by members of Resurgam (Ireland's best project-based professional choir). These are paid for by Galway City Council through its Creative Communities Fund, and will run between late August to early October 2026:
The goal of these workshops is to enable communities in Galway an opportunity to take part in Galway Messiah 2026 - which is on Sunday, 6 December 2026.
Any person or group which interested in taking part can contact Linda O'Shea Farren, CEO of Resurgam at info@resurgam.ie
More information is on their website: https://www.resurgam.ie/galway-community-voices
A residential icon-writing workshop is being held at Knock Shrine
Dates: 31st August to 5th September 2026
Leader: Mihai Cucu, a Romanian artist and teacher, creator or the triptych icon of The Holy Family, commissioned for the World Meeting of Families 2018.
This will included the whole process of creating a hand-written icon as a contemplative journey of prayer, presence and attentive seeing.
Cost: €695 per person - this includes:
Contact for information: John Farrelly - retreatvillage@knockshrine.ie or phone +353 (086) 0108623
