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Why lockdown is like an Ignatian retreat

November 10, 2020

BRENDAN McMANUS SJ :: A time of lockdown is often experienced as an involuntary ‘retreat'. Insights from spiritual retreats can be helpful.

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Name change for Missions reflects new reality

November 4, 2020

Irish Jesuit Missions is now known as Irish Jesuits International, with the tagline ‘Men and Women for Others’

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Inspiration and guidance for faith communities

November 3, 2020

Fr Michael Hurley's latest book with Messenger Publications provides a programme of evangelisation for authentic freedom, renewal, and community

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Gospel choir November invitation

October 31, 2020

Using photographs, this November the Gardiner St Church Gospel Choir is offering an online opportunity for people to remember their loved ones who have died

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Update on Fr. Stan Swamy SJ

October 30, 2020

The campaign for the release of 83-year-old Indian Jesuit Fr Stan Swami has gained a great deal of momentum in recent days

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Gentle gaze of Granny

October 30, 2020

GAVIN THOMAS MURPHY :: For All Souls' Day, the writer remembers his beloved grandmother and her influence on the family.

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Record numbers praying on Sacred Space

October 28, 2020

Nearly half a million people prayed on Sacred Space, the online prayer ministry of the Jesuits, this September, and its social media engagement is thriving

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8-day online directed retreat

October 28, 2020

Manresa Jesuit Centre of Spirituality offered retreatants encouragement and hope through personal guidance and direction from 9 to 17 October

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A view from Rome

October 27, 2020

Pope Francis hit the headlines for endorsing civil unions for same-sex partnerships. Gerry Whelan SJ in Rome gives the background to this and other recent Vatican stories

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The challenges of ‘Fratelli Tutti’

October 22, 2020

Irish Jesuit theologian Gerry O'Hanlon discusses the significance of Pope Francis' latest encyclical in which the Pope gives his unique take on 'the signs of the times'

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