Growing movement in Mayo invites women to gather for Community Temple
A GROWING women’s movement rooted in reflection, devotion, community, and belonging is continuing to gather more momentum in Mayo, with local women being invited to take part in Community Temple: Temple of the One Heart: A Devotion to Love this July.
Taking place on Saturday, July 25, at Jack’s Old Cottage, Derrycooraun, the gathering is part of the wider work of The Temple of Sacred Remembrance, a Mayo-based offering created by Clodagh O’Connor that has been quietly drawing women together through in-person temple spaces and online contemplative gatherings.
At the heart of the July gathering is a simple but timely invitation: To come back to what is real. Back to love. Back to the deeper ground of being. In a time when many women are carrying so much inwardly while also moving through fast, demanding lives, the Temple offers space to pause, soften, and reconnect.
Rather than being framed as a conventional event, Community Temple is part of what Clodagh describes as a growing movement of women seeking spaces of greater honesty, tenderness, prayer, and depth.
“There is a real longing in many women for something deeper, more honest and more nourishing than the pace and pressure of everyday life often allows,” said Clodagh. “What is growing here is not just a series of events, but a way of gathering. A way of making space for devotion, love, tenderness, truth, and belonging.”
The July temple, Temple of the One Heart, is devoted to the mystery of the heart as a place of return; a space beneath fear, striving, comparison, and separation where something in us still remembers how to belong.
“In a world that teaches separation, the heart becomes a sacred place of return,” Clodagh said. “This temple is an invitation to come back to what is real. Back to love. Back to the deeper ground of your being.”
The Temple of Sacred Remembrance has already been building a strong response locally, with more than 200 women attending the gatherings over the last 18 months. Alongside its in-person work, the Temple’s monthly online contemplative gathering, Temple of Longing, is also growing steadily and now reaching women beyond Ireland, with an emerging international audience joining from further afield.
This summer and autumn, that local movement will deepen further with the launch of Elemental Initiation for Women, a new four-month in-person temple journey beginning in Westport on Saturday, August 29. The programme will guide women through the elemental gates of Water, Fire, Air, and Earth in what O’Connor describes as a sacred, embodied path of devotion, shadow work, and transformation.
While the July Community Temple stands as a gathering in its own right, it also reflects something wider taking shape in Mayo: Women seeking meaningful spaces where inner life, spirituality, embodiment, and community can meet.
Booking is available here.