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Fáilte, Welcome
to the website for the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland
Bishop William Crean
Bernard the Realist
Bernard the Realist
From the ninth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
The identity of the Cistercian movement is forged in the interface between the ideal and the concrete, the poetic and the pragmatic. Its protagonists are tested and purified by tensions Read More
God’s Angels
God’s Angels
From the eighth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
During Christ’s forty-day sojourn in the desert Satan came to him citing Psalm 90, specifically two verses about the angels. ‘The devil’, we read in St Matthew, ‘took him to Read More
Glory
Glory
From the seventh conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
When Jesus spelled out what it means to remain with him, to enter the Kingdom towards which he was pointing, ‘many of his disciples drew back and no longer went Read More
The Fall of Thousands
The Fall of Thousands
From the sixth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
Falls can humble us when we are puffed up, showing God’s power to save. They can become milestones on a personal journey of salvation, to be recalled gratefully. 
Yet we cannot Read More
Splendour of Truth
Splendour of Truth
From the fifth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
Bernard keeps us on our toes. He states: ‘I would have you warned: no one lives on earth without temptation; if one is relieved of one, let him surely expect Read More