This book written by Cork Friend Larry Lynn Southard and published in 2023 aims to provide a “handbook to help readers place themselves in a position that makes divine guidance a daily reality”. Sources of inspiration for the book include the life of Jesus of Nazareth, the Gospel of Thomas, the Tao Te Ching and, not least, Quakerism.

Reviews of the book written by Marjorie A. Lamb (Roscrea) and E. Heather Bewley (Churchtown) have been included in the Friendly Reflections section of this website. More reviews will be added as they become available.

You can find more information, including how to purchase the book, at the website https://wayfaring-a-guide-to-guidance.webnode.page. There will also be copies on sale at the bookstall at Ireland Yearly Meeting 2024.

Monkstown Friends are hosting a discussion on the topics

What the community of Irish Friends means to you.

How do your Quaker values influence your wider day to day life?

Further information can by found in this DAQC flyer.

The Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee is arranging 2 events for Saturday 18th May, at 11:30am and 1.15pm, Dublin city centre.

1. A public Quaker Peace Witness (with our Quaker Peace Witness banner and leaflets) to take place at the entrance to St Stephen’s Green / top of Grafton St, Dublin from 11.30am to 12.25pm.

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2. Participation as a Quaker group with Quaker Peace Witness banner (and leaflets) in the Ireland – Palestine Solidarity march which starts outside The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square East, Dublin at 1.30pm. For this we suggest that in order to find one another in the crowded area that we meet outside the Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square North at 1.15 / 1.20pm.

You are welcome to come along and give witness to the Quaker silent voice at one or both of these events (and to interact with any members of the public who may like to hear what the Quaker Peace Testimony and the Quaker Peace Witness are about).

The organisers invite you to join an international group of Young Adult Quakers (age 18-35) to explore how we are transformed and gathered together by the Spirit.

Although the gathering won’t look like the well known painting used as the featured image for this post – The Presence in the Midst (painted at Jordans over a century ago) – it is important to ask what the idea behind this image could mean for us today. 

More information can be found in this downloadable flyer.

This event, organised by the Dublin Area Quaker Community, will take place at Rathfarnham Meeting House from 1.00-4.30pm on Saturday June 8. You can use this downloadable flyer to publicise the event in your Meeting.

The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva seeks a committed and motivated person with considerable knowledge and experience to carry forward QUNO’s work on Peace & Disarmament in the QUNO Geneva office.

Leading the Peace & Disarmament Programme, the Representative will maintain QUNO’s long-term presence and Quaker-grounded work at the United Nations. As a senior staff member and part of a small team, the Representative will help ensure the effective and efficient management of QUNO Geneva. 

Full details and instructions on how to apply can be found at this link: https://quno.org/timeline/2024/4/quno-geneva-seeks-representative-peace-and-disarmament

The closing date for applications is 26 May 2024. 

IYM’s new Youth Support Worker, Kit Harty (Limerick Meeting) has officially started in their post as of May 1, 2024. You can find some more information about Kit and the post at the IYM Youth Support Worker webpage.

Young people aged 14+ are very welcome at Senior Moyallon Camp, which is being held at the Moyallon Centre on July 5-12, 2024.

You can learn more from this Senior Moyallon Camp leaflet. You can also download the SMC 2024 application/consent form. The deadline for applications is Saturday June 21, 2024.

Everyone from the ages of 10-14 is very welcome at Junior Moyallon Camp, which is being held at the Moyallon Centre on June 22-23, 2024.

The dedicated team of leaders will make sure everyone feels comfortable for the duration of their stay. Come and share in both the fun and spiritual side of camp life!

This year’s theme is LIMITLESS. Join us as we explore the Limitlessness of God! You’ll get lots of opportunities to learn more about this topic through workshops, art and discussion. There will also be plenty of outdoor games, an offsite activity, the famous Moyallon campfire and much more!

You can learn more from this leaflet. You can also download the JMC 2024 application form. The deadline for applications is May 20, 2024.

Ecologically-minded Friends may be interested in this `retreat in the heart of Nature’ hosted by the Centre for Wild Spirituality in Ards Friary, Donegal, from 25^th-29^th August 2024.

You can expect a slow and reflective agenda, delicious meals, good company with international retreatants, and gentle invitations to deepen into your own wild spirituality as you wander and wonder on the spectacular Ards peninsula.

Led by deeply grounded teachers who have invested their lives in restoring intimate relationship with the land, morning sessions will provide a foundation for contemplative wanderings along the coast and in the spectacular Ards forest. The evenings will provide an opportunity to connect more deeply with one another, sharing stories, and witnessing the deepening happening in one another. 

The guides for the retreat will include Victoria Loorz, Director of the Centre for Wild Spirituality, USA; Valerie Serrels, Director of the Wild Church Network; Diarmuid O’Murchú, author of Beyond the Pandemic: Spiritual & Ecological Challenges and the upcoming Ecological Spirituality; Seán Ó’Gaoithín, master gardener at Glenveagh Forest Park; and Craig Chalquist, depth psychologist. 

You can find full details of the retreat and how to book at  www.wildspirituality.earth/ireland2024 Note that registration and full payment are due by May 15, 2024.

If anyone would like to find out more, feel free to get in touch with Fiona Murdoch (Rathfarnham Meeting) who attended last year’s retreat.