Brother Richard Hendrick

Brother Richard is a Capuchin Franciscan priest-friar living and working in Ireland. His poem ‘Lockdown’ went viral in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and was translated into twenty-six languages and shared widely on traditional and social media throughout the world. Still Points: A Guide to Living the Mindful, Meditative Way, an Irish bestseller, was published in 2022. His second book Calming the Storms was a bestseller in 2024, reaching number 2 in the non-fiction charts. Currently based in Dublin, Brother Richard teaches Christian meditation and mindfulness with the Sanctuary Spirituality Centre. Find @brorichard on Instagram, Facebook and X