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In the shadow of the cross

April 5, 2017

Clongowes Wood College held a moving Tenebrae Service on Sunday, marking the events of Christ passion and death

Lent 2017: Week 5

Week 5: Stillness exercise

April 4, 2017

So it’s late on a Friday afternoon in the open-plan office where I work, and I need to compose the phrasing of some sort of stillness exercise by six o’clock...

Lent 2017: Week 5

Week 5: Gospel reading

April 4, 2017

The Parable of the Wandering Sheep “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face...

Lent 2017: Week 5

Week 5: Prey

April 4, 2017

The same master, a hearty, hirsute baritone, taught me Latin and Greek at each stop on the three scholastic terraces, prep, secondary, and college; and, because he looked quite Olympian,...

Lent 2017: Week 5

Week 5: Pray

April 4, 2017

A word to the wise: the Lord will always surprise us. Nothing is predictable, especially prophecy, which predicts nothing other than the fact that the future is always and everywhere...

Inspirational Jesuits

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

April 4, 2017

Author of 'The Phenomenon of the Spirit' and 'The Phenomenon of Man', Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French paleontologist and geologist who spent many years in China.

Lent 2017: Week 4

Week 4: Stillness exercise

March 25, 2017

I know from umpteen paperback apologetics that Spiritus in Latin and Pneuma in Greek and Ruadh in Hebrew all signify breath of some sort, the oxygenating impetus that aerates biochemical...

Lent 2017

Week 4: Gospel reading

March 25, 2017

The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and...

Lent 2017: Week 4

Week 4: Prey

March 25, 2017

In my first year in the senior house at school, the same good-looking Jesuit priest (so recently ordained that we still sometimes addressed him as Mr.) introduced us to the...