Gods Cottage
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God's Cottage and the Bible Chapel
(Ph 0404 45111). A98 X4H0
Glendalough, Bray, Co Wicklow.
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Gods Cottage Charity Trust is a registered charity, CHY19187
Website, Email and Facebook,
www.glendaloughprayercentre.org
fr@glendaloughprayercentre.org
Visit us also on Facebook.
Youtube Videos
Google "God'sCottage Youtube"
Opening Hours
For March
Saturdays and Sundays, bank holidays 11.00 to 4.30.
Monday to Friday 12.00 to 4.30pm
For April
Saturdays and Sundays and bank holidays 11.00 to 5.00
Monday to Friday 11.30 to 5.00pm
Coffee Dock and Picnic Area
Self-service Coffee Dock where one is welcome to bring a packed lunch. €2 per person cover charge for use of facilities entitles one to a mug of tea or coffee. (No alcohol allowed or disposable barbecues)
Coming Events at God's Cottage
Seeking to lead people to Jesus
Our ongoing aim in God's Cottage is to lead people to a living relationship with Jesus, and to make Glendalough once again a place of prayer and pilgrimage.
Help Us Lead People To Jesus
Join us in praying that the new movement of the Holy Spirit will come to our families, our parishes and to God's Cottage
Seeking To Grow In The Spirit
We have now completed the Life in the Spirit Seminars, and during August are continuing to take steps to grow in our openness to the Holy Spirit. If the Sunday is fine, our ceremonies will be at the outdoor altar, if wet in the Bible Chapel/Coffee Dock
A year of intercession for Family Conversions
"New Shoots Novena"
In intercession for Family Conversions
Starting Sunday 19th May and running for 9 Sundays.
Speakers who have been booked so far are
Monsignor Pat Lynch founder of the Ceili Community or his assistant; Helena O Shea, National Leader of Youth 2000; Deacon Don Devaney, Chairperson, Divine Mercy Conference, Sinead Strong, the National Director of Catholic Mothers of Ireland, John Howard, the National Director of the Adoration Apostolate.
It is our aim during it to reach out to younger age groups.
On the Sunday (most likely Sunday 2nd June) when we welcome Helena O Shea, national leader of Youth 2000, while the afternoon will be for all ages, afterwards there will be an opportunity for youth aged 16 to 35 to meet with Helena.
If there are young people interested, there can be a meeting afterwards every Sunday for young people.
On the Sunday we welcome Sinead Strong, the National Director of Catholic Mothers of Ireland, there can be a meeting afterwards for mothers, including young mothers. In my eyes, Sinead is a young mother.
On the Sunday we welcome either Monsignor Lynch or his assistant, there can be a meeting afterwards for those interested in Ceili's adult formation programme.
Meanwhile we are waiting for a definite response from another big name.
Full details in the May Diary.
Please note that there will be a different timetable from May 1st to our current Winter timetable
It will likely be 1.45 Intercession through the psalms etc; Mass at 2.30
3.00 approx Presentation by guest speaker concluding with Eucharistic Blessing.
For our current timetable see below
Our Sunday Programme
Sunday 31st March, there will be no ceremonies due to Easter. But God's Cottage will still be open for prayer and adoration.
Sunday April 7th
Divine Mercy Sunday
1.45 Praying the Psalms
2.15 Ceremony for healing with anointing of the sick
3.15 approx. Mass of the Divine Mercy followed by Chaplet and veneration of Image. Also Confessions
Sundays April 14th, 21st, 28th
1.45 Praying the Psalms
2.15 Talk/ceremony
3.00 approx. Mass for the conversion of family members. Either blessing with laying on of hands or Confession afterwards
Group Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament
Wednesdays 6.45 pm - 8.15 pm.
God's Cottage, Glendalough
You are welcome to come for the full 90 minutes or to just drop in for a minute.
When you come for the first time, give Ellie your number so that should it have to be cancelled due to bad weather, you can be notified.
With Veritas having announced their intention to close at the end of the year, God's Cottage will be the largest Catholic run Christian Bookshop in Leinster
Year For Family Conversions
The greatest need facing our Church in Ireland at the moment is to find ways of leading people to Jesus. As a result, I feel led to make 2024 a year of intercession for Family Conversions in God's Cottage. This will be part of our intercession each Sunday, with the Mass each Sunday
being offered for this intention, as well as for the intentions of those present.
Creating a climate for conversions, involves going against the flow, for the flow is very definitely going in the opposite direction.
So it will not be easy. It will require much prayer, perhaps fasting, and making of everything we can a sacrifice.
Jesus thirsts for conversions. The Holy Spirit thirsts for conversion. Our Lady thirsts for conversions. St. Therese thirsts for conversions. So must we.
If enough people thirst for conversions, and for a new movement of the Holy Spirit, then we will begin to see conversions and a new movement of the Holy Spirit.
Could You Bring A Group To God's Cottage in 2024?
We regularly receive testimonies from people who come as part of a group to God's Cottage. For example, I recently received the following letter.
Dear Fr. Thaddeus,
I am one of Roscommon pilgrims who visited St. Kevins on Sun Sept. 25th '22
and I wish to thank you most sincerely for making it a special day for us.
For me personally I found it all very beautiful, very humbling, privileged to be anointed and grateful for your healing touch and prayers. I said to Fr. Pravin my heart and soul were dancing and still are. You are a very special priest. So may God bless you and keep you safe. Many thanks, Maureen.
My Response
Sincere thanks to all who organise groups to come to God's Cottage.
You are also welcome, if you wish, to bring your own priest or spiritual director, and in that case, to perhaps get my assistant, Imelda, to take you on a prayer walk to the monastic grounds.
Proposed Pilgrim Apartments
We are in the process of having plans drawn up to apply for planning for two
2 bed Pilgrim Apartments alongside the Bible Chapel. Lord, we entrust this to you. May experience a successful outcome. In Jesus's name.
Help Needed
We would greatly welcome more help in God's Cottage, a person who would be
available to assist one or more days a week, or even an occasional day
Can You Help Us?
For almost 1,000 years, Glendalough was a place of prayer and pilgrimage.
Then with the suppression of the monasteries, there was no place for indoor worship in the Upper Valley for over 450 years.
Then, thanks to your generosity and God's miraculous grace, we managed to buy the Caretaker's Cottage and turn it into God's Cottage, an oratory with a Catholic ethos.
Then, thanks to your generosity, we managed to buy the 2 acre field behind it with the attached sawmill yard.
Then we managed to build the Bible Chapel and the Coffee Dock on the site of the main sawmill yard building - again thanks to your generosity and God's blessing.
But what we really need is more footfall. Think of the facilities we have here and how suitable they are for a relaxing day out.
1. God's Cottage itself where one can have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on request, or browse in the Christian bookshop.
2. The Bible Chapel where all Bible believing Christians are welcome.
3. The Coffee Dock where patrons can bring their packed lunches. Cover charge of c2 entitles one to a mug of tea or coffee.
4. The picnic areas alongside the Coffee Dock. Again cover charge of c2 entitles one to a mug of tea or coffee.
5. Private parking strictly reserved for 'customers only' right in the heart of Glendalough, from where one can also visit the ancient monastic city.
6. The scenic meditation (or picnic) area on the bank of the river, now enclosed by a wire fence to protect children from falling into the river.
7. The field with its Mass rock (outdoor altar) and also big trees with shade beneath.
So the ideal place for a day out, and also a very special place to bring your friends.
New Sunday Timetable
1.45 God's Cottage, praying the psalms just as they did in the Glendalough monastery followed by talk or ceremony in God's Cottage. Concludes with prayer to be"sanctified by the truth" and blessing.
As this ceremony is being videod, if one is arriving late, one should walk straight in and take ones place. If one needs
to use the loo, please use the one in the Coffee Dock. Do not use the loo in Cottage while talk is in progress.
Note on very warm Sundays, the talk may be moved outside.
3.00 Mass either at the outdoor altar or in the Bible Chapel depending on the weather, followed by individual blessing with Blessed Sacrament.
After Mass, there are choices.
Most Sundays I will be available for Confessions after Mass.
Most Sundays my assistant Imelda Prendergast will lead a prayer walk on fine Sundays or Rosary and Chaplet in God's Cottage on wet Sundays.
Self Service Coffee Dock
Our self-service Coffee Dock, where one is most welcome to bring a packed lunch, makes the God's Cottage complex, the ideal place to centre your day out, with parking for patrons, an added bonus.
It also makes our facilities very suitable for active retirement groups.
Coming From Dublin?
The St. Kevin's Bus
On Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays, from March 1st to Sept 30th, the St. Kevin bus from Dublin arrives just before 1.00 and doesn't leave Glendalough until just after 5.30.
From Monday to Friday, it heads back to Dublin at 4.30.
Details of its route from St. Stephen's Green are on the internet.
The intentions of the Promoters and Readers of the Curate's Diary
The Mass each Sunday is offered for the intentions of those present, and also the intentions of the promoters and readers of the Curate's Diary, and the intentions of our Youtube family. (Written intentions welcome - no money reqd)
Sincere Thanks
To all who are supporting either God's Cottage or the Curate's Diary or my booklets.
May God reward you for your support and generosity
The intentions of the Promoters and Readers of the Curate's Diary
The Mass each Sunday is offered for the intentions of those present, and also the intentions of the promoters and readers of the Curate's Diary, and the intentions of our Youtube family. (Written intentions welcome - no money reqd)
Parking
All cars to be removed from grounds 30 minutes after final blessing unless permission is got to stay later
Please Pray For God's Anointing
The talks are being watched by between 1,500 and 5,000 people on Youtube each week. Your prayer support for this venture is requested; that the Holy Spirit will come upon myself, upon the talks, upon those present, and upon
those who watch on Youtube.
Please do not create a distraction
Either by expecting me to speak to you while I am setting up for the talk; or by talking within the grounds, including the driveway, while the talk is in progress. If you are not staying for the talk, please leave the field quickly and silently.
If you are staying for the talk, please be in your seat before the talk begins.
On wet Sundays when we are indoor, this becomes even more important as noise carries in the Bible Chapel and Coffee Dock.
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