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...
Read more
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...
Read more
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,...
Read more
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...
Read moreLatest News
A Church in change: The challenge of synodality
November 10, 2026 - Fr Eamonn Conway examines how synodality, rooted in Vatican II, can shape Church life, leadership and decision-making at every level.
Job vacancy at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice
November 9, 2026 - The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice is recruiting a Communications and Marketing Manager, a professional who is passionate about social justice and committed to advancing the mission of the Centre through strategic communication, engagement and relationship building
Willie Doyle SJ canonisation documents brought to Rome
November 9, 2026 - The final bundles of documentation central to the canonisation process of Fr Willie Doyle SJ have been delivered to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in Rome.
Climate leadership, not climate hypocrisy
November 3, 2026 - The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice are inviting people to join them at National Climate Demonstration in Dublin on Saturday, 14 November.
Latest Podcasts
Women and the Irish National Assembly – what really happened
November 4, 2026
The Vatican and the Women Deacons
October 9, 2026
Living water: “Join the force”
September 18, 2026
Healing for the soul
August 18, 2026
Latest Videos
Pray with the Pope: For the proper use of wealth
November 3, 2026
Reflections of a Catholic priest in Palestine/Israel
November 3, 2026
Pope Video: For mental health ministry
October 1, 2026
Walking with a seeker
September 23, 2026
Latest Books
‘Dreaming A New Dream’
March 19, 2025
‘I am infinitely loved’ – Messenger booklet
August 21, 2023
Messenger autumn catalogue
August 8, 2023
‘Brothers in Arms’ – Ignatian Camino book
July 3, 2023