Spirituality

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Gospel Choir Easter Monday broadcast

March 19, 2008

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir is featured on RTE Radio 1 on Easter Monday, March 24, at 9pm. The award-winning and hugely popular choir was recorded live in Gardiner Street...

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Slí Eile go to Santiago

March 18, 2008

“Not for the faint-hearted”! So says Slí Eile of its pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, from 27 May to 7 June. It seems that the physical journey, however, will only...

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Getting to grips with the Gospels

March 18, 2008

Manresa is starting a weekly evening lecture series on ‘Introducing the Gospels’. Delivered by Fr Brendan Comerford SJ, the lectures will elucidate the background of the Gospels and tackle such...

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Busy Broadcasting

March 18, 2008

It’s been a busy week media-wise for Jesuits and their colleagues. Piaras Jackson SJ was on the Seoige and O’Shea programme on RTE 1 television on Thursday March 13, talking...

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Mass of closure: homily of Fr Nicolás

March 18, 2008

The homily given by Father Adolfo Nicolás at the closing Mass of General Congregation 35 has been released in English. Speaking in Italian at the Church of the Gesù on...

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‘Lent Matters’ on local radio

March 18, 2008

There’s been a great response to RNN’s Lenten series ‘Lent Matters’ according to Eileen Good, Director of RNN. Five half-hour programmes on the theme of ‘journey’ have been broadcast on...

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