At the Cistercian Abbey in Roscrea in Co Tipperary, monastic life continued uninterrupted during the Covid crisis, as it has done for 142 years since its foundation in 1878.
The TY class had embarked on a unique project for the year, the construction of their very own 'Cistercian College Camino' or path of prayer which would meander for several kilometres through the Abbey grounds. "It was a lot of hard work, but it brought us all together as a school year to undertake a special project, and to give something back to the monastery for letting us have the school here," he said.
He said the class managed to pull 60 tonnes of sand gravel, stone and logs, through difficult forest terrain to get the work done. "I considered this to be bringing them out into God's own classroom in the great outdoors and the boys were doing brilliant work on it," he said. "It was also a link between the school and the abbey and this path was a gift from the boys back to the abbey," Mr Smith said.
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