Celtic Spirituality in Myth, Art and Music – Where did the Aos Sí Come From?

Celtic Spirituality in Myth, Art and Music – Where did the Aos Sí Come From? With Colette Kane OP

Join us to ponder the importance of story as a medium and carrier of meaning. Thomas Berry maintained that we are in between stories, the scientific myth of growth at all costs is not sustainable and we have to learn a new story ‘The Universe Story’. He spoke of the importance of wisdom from different sources including Indigenous traditions.

• How might the bi-cosmic world of the Celts help us understand the cosmology of today?
• What might the Tuatha Dé Danann/ the aos sí, teach us today?

Come and learn from the wisdom of the past so that we might know our place  in the universe story of today.

Sr Colette Kane OP is the Director of Programmes An Tairseach, Organic Farm and Ecology Centre in Wicklow. Sr Colette has been working there since 2014. She has a Masters in Ecology and Religion completed in All Hallows’ College in 2012. Colette completed her Master’s Thesis with a study entitled Knowing our Place? A Study of the Integrity of Creation through the Lens of Petit Narratives of Cosmology in Dialogue with Psalm 8 and Job 7.

Colette also holds a Masters in Biblical Studies, awarded by the Dominican Biblical Institute University of Limerick in 2005. Her primary degree was in Education and she taught Religion and PE for over 15 years in Secondary Schools, North and South of Ireland. As a Dominican sister Colette was a member of the Regional Leadership Team for the Cabra Dominican Congregation 2006-2010.

Before her appointment as Director in An Tairseach, Colette was a Chaplain in a large Dublin Secondary School. Her past experience includes facilitating retreats for teenagers and Confirmation classes.  A keen musician and singer she was also a volunteer leader at the Knockadoon Music and liturgy Course for nearly twenty years.

Sr Colette now lives and works in Wicklow Town, Ireland, she is very much part of the teaching staff delivering lectures on the ten weeks annual Sabbatical programme entitled Exploring Spirituality in the context of: an expanding universe, an endangered Earth, and the Christian Tradition.