Spirituality
Lent 2018: Week 2 – The risk of leaving our father’s home
February 19, 2018
Read Genesis 12 The reader cannot fail to note the decisive break between the end of Genesis chapter 11, where we come to the end of the story about Babel...
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Lent 2018: Week 1 – The first eviction
February 14, 2018
Read Genesis 1-3 Let us begin at the beginning. To do that – to read Genesis 1-3 again at the start of Lent – we must begin by putting aside...
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Psalm 23 – excluding no one
February 13, 2018
With the forthcoming World Meeting of Families in mind, Gavin T. Murphy adapts Psalm 23 in accordance with the Pope remarking that the Church ought to be like the Good...
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Lent, the bible and the housing crisis
February 12, 2018
Kevin Hargaden, social justice theologian with the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has written a lenten retreat with a difference, in order to make a difference
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Home thoughts from the Bible: Introduction
February 12, 2018
The story the bible tells begins with the making of home. Scholars often note how Genesis 1 and 2 depict God crafting an ordered universe out of chaos as a...
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Jesuit Centre’s unique Lenten strategy
February 6, 2018
Are you up for a six-week, ten minute a day Lenten challenge involving a spiritual practice of your choice and your own prayer guide?
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Pope highlights consequences of corruption
February 5, 2018
In the February edition of 'The Pope Video' Pope Francis speaks about the consequences of corruption and calls for the condemnation of this evil
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‘A Dialogue of Hope’ with the President
January 30, 2018
Authors of 'A Dialogue of Hope: Critical Thinking for Critical Times' and members of Messenger Publications were received by President Michael D. Higgins
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Relating inward and outward
January 26, 2018
GAVIN T. MURPHY :: Strengthening our relationships requires us to look within ourselves and outside of ourselves. Can we learn anything new from a mystic or a psychologist?
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‘He was a good man’
January 24, 2018
Staff and students of Gonzaga, along with Jesuits, family and friends, said a fond farewell to Joe Brennan SJ at his funeral Mass in the Church of the Holy Name
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A Jesuit priest at Drumcree church
October 1, 2026 - Fr Brendan McPartlin SJ joins a prayer service at Drumcree, as renewed tensions bring Portadown’s historic divisions back into focus.
WWII – ‘A humanitarian disaster on a global scale’
October 1, 2026 - Bryan Dobson launched 'The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The Case of Europe (1939-1945)', a book co-edited by Damien Burke, Irish Jesuit Archivist.
Clongowes students shares about his faith
October 1, 2026 - Twelve-year-old Clongowes student Anthony Buday won the National Knock Basilica Art Competition with his model of the basilica made of sugar cubes. He has a singular devotion to Mary.
October Messenger: Mission, ministry and spirituality
September 29, 2026 - Holiness, mental health, the power of the rosary, and the potential of Halloween - just a few of the articles in the October edition of the Messenger magazine
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