Lent 2017: Week 1

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...

Lent 2017: Week 1

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...

Lent 2017: Week 1

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...

Lent 2017: Week 1

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...

St Brigid and the sacred trees

January 30, 2026 - On the feast of St Brigid, Irish Jesuits International has just launched a tree as a new gift in its ethical shopping catalogue.

Seeking God in Gaza

January 30, 2026 - 'The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza' is the work being studied by the Belfast Jesuit Centre's Zoom book club.

February Messenger: Streams of Living Water

January 30, 2026 - February Messenger: Irish Christians and the cleansing power of water, Saint Brigid, Lent, and a newly published book on Pope Leo XIV.