Headmaster's Welcome As Headmaster, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the website of Glenstal Abbey School.

Our school is a seven-day boarding, six-day teaching secondary school for boys, administered by the Benedictine monks of Glenstal Abbey.  The fact that the school is a work of the monastery gives it a very particular flavour and context: Glenstal is a place where a community of monks lives, gathering together several times a day to praise God and hear his word, while seeking to be attentive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. The abbey school exists in order that the young men who come to live and study here may grow in knowledge and grace. We aim to be partners with parents in forming, guiding, nurturing, encouraging – and sometimes prodding – our students to develop their talents and gifts and so grow into what God has called them to be.

Glenstal is a school which strives for academic and sporting excellence and tries to provide the best pastoral care possible. But there is a lot more to the place: We seek to have a school which is shaped by the life of prayer to which Glenstal Benedictine community is committed; where the energy and creativity, and the musical, academic and artistic gifts of the entire school community are harvested, and somehow restored to God through our shared life of prayer and praise. We seek to have a school where the liturgy, before which Saint Benedict says we are to put nothing, is the source and summit of our life together.

In browsing our site and examining our structures, policies and news, it is my hope that you will come to understand and appreciate more fully the nature of our school and the type of education it seeks to provide. I hope that you like what you find here. If what you see provokes your interest, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Pax!

Brother Martin Browne OSB
Headmaster