Spirituality

Ignatian discernment for mental illness

March 1, 2017

GAVIN T. MURPHY :: Ignatian discernment has guided me through my journey with Bipolar Disorder and I am deeply grateful.

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Week 1: Stillness exercise

February 28, 2017

Stand on one leg and extend your left arm upwards in the shape of the spout of a teapot. Say to yourself out loud three times, first in Hebrew, then...

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Week 1: Gospel reading

February 28, 2017

Matthew 13 (New International Version) The Parable of the Sower That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered around him...

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Week 1: Prey

February 28, 2017

I grew up between two homes and two parishes. My parents lived in Dublin and my godparents in Wicklow. So, over the years, I would have heard this parable in...

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Lent 2017: Introduction

February 28, 2017

AIDAN MATHEWS A response from a religious illiterate in the Republic of Letters A WORD OF WARNING AND A WARNING ABOUT WORDS Because I was a little boy in the...

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Week 1: Pray

February 28, 2017

Broadcasting, which has been my job of work in a radio station for the past thirty years, understands itself, almost literally, as a form of sowing. In the last little...

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Following love into mystery

February 22, 2017

PAT COYLE: : As my daddy lay dying I learned about the mysterious, earth-bound love of God through the miraculous gift of an ear-drop squirter

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Symbols and theology of the Book of Kells

February 22, 2017

The Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin hosted a workshop for teachers on the theology of the Book of Kells, the most visited book in the world

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Fr John Sullivan and the healing power of the cross

February 22, 2017

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was the principal celebrant for the Annual Blessed elect John Sullivan SJ Mass in Gardiner Street Church, Dublin, on Saturday 18 February

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Saint Robert Southwell

February 22, 2017

Robert Southwell is one of the ten canonised Jesuit martyrs of England and Wales, and his prose and poetry are reportedly to have been well known by Shakespeare

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