Invite to ‘creation walk’ in Knock

May 3, 2024 in Featured News, News

Brian Grogan SJ and Fr Richard Gibbons, PP of Knock Basilica, are launching a ‘Creation Walk’ developed around the extensive church grounds on Monday 25 May 2024, 10.30 am -3.30 pm. All are welcome.

The walk is a wheelchair-friendly half-kilometer of stations telling the story of the creation of the universe, with gospel quotes to aid meditation and prayerful reflection along the way, The walk, a first for Ireland, is inspired by Brian Grogan’s latest book Creation Walk – The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet » published by Messenger Publications.

At the launch and before the walk Brian will speak about his book on the origins of creation, followed by Dr Niamh Brennan, lecturer in eco-cosmology at Trinity College Dublin, who will give the scientific around the story of the universe.

As Brian tells Pat Coyle in the interview above, the ‘Creation Walk’ is a scientific story told along a contemplative path that one walks in the presence of the great God-creator who gifts us with all of good things. He also tells her how the walk came to be, the spirituality that underpins it, and his hopes for its future development.