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High turnout for Assembly

April 1, 2008

Over 120 Jesuits attended the annual Province Assembly this year in Clongowes, which was entitled ‘Called to the Frontiers‘ and focused on the recent General Congregation in Rome. The two...

We remember in our prayer

April 1, 2008

Fr Tony Farren, facing an operation in a Galway hospital Br Joe Osborne, in hospital recovering from an operation The sick in Cherryfield

Downloads from Pray-as-you-go, the podcast website of the British Province of the Jesuits, passed the 5 million mark recently. According to SJ, the Province newsletter, the average number of downloads...

New beginnings on Inis Oírr

March 28, 2008

Eleven young adults were on Inis Oírr in Galway Bay for the Easter Triduum as part of a joint initiative between Slí Eile and the Galway Spirituality Centre. This pilot...

A new director for Slí Eile

March 27, 2008

Slí Eile has announced the appointment of a new director. Pádraig Swan, a member of the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir for the last two years, will take up leadership of...

Kierkegaard and celibacy

March 25, 2008

Irish Jesuit Tom Casey, professor of philosophy in the Gregorian University in Rome, writes in this month’s Pastoral Review about ‘Learning about celibacy from a Lutheran’. The Lutheran in question...

Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of St. Ignatius Loyola

March 25, 2008

Irish pilgrimages to the parts of Spain associated with St. Ignatius Loyola are comparatively rare, so there was a pioneering spirit when eighteen pilgrims from the Irish Province’s Education Sector...

Carl’s Rhythm of the Dance Anniversary

March 25, 2008

Colaiste Iognaid’s music teacher, Carl Hession, was the composer for the ‘Rhythm of the Dance‘, the Irish music and dance show, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary in Dollywood, Tennessee....

Clongowes immersed in Lesotho

March 25, 2008

Thirteen fifth year Clongowes students and four staff flew out on 23 March for the Second African Immersion Experience in Lesotho. Their main focus will be working for the Malealea...

Timire an Earraigh

March 25, 2008

In the current edition of the Irish language magazine An Timire Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Director of Ovation Global DMC, refers to the inspiration of Chiara Lubich, the recently deceased founder...