Spirituality

podcasts

The science of spirituality

February 21, 2018

Michael O'Sullivan of SpIRE explains how spirituality has unhelpfully been understood as belonging exclusively to the domain of the private and detached

Lent challenge launches strongly

February 21, 2018

The 10-Minute Lent Challenge kicked off at the Galway Centre of Spirituality and Culture last week.

News

A deepening of faith with the Messenger

February 21, 2018

The Sacred Heart Messenger for the month of March contains a wide-range of articles such as decision-making with Brian Grogan SJ, the life of Saint Patrick with John Scally, and...

podcasts

The courage to turn inward

February 21, 2018

Brendan McManus SJ, newly appointed delegate of spirituality, speaks to Pat Coyle about his ministry of spiritual direction and his Jesuit life

Lent 2018

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...

Lent 2018

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...

World Meeting of Families

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...

podcasts

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

Lent 2018

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...