News
Noel and GMH
February 22, 2011
For Jesuits who depend in many ways on the administrative abilities of Fr Socius (Provincial’s secretary), it is consoling to know that our efficient Noel Barber has a poetically different...
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Forthcoming events
February 8, 2011
8 February: Public lecture entitled “Growing in Faith”; speaker Fr. Donal Neary SJ. Will be held in St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, at 8pm in the Fr....
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In your dreams!
February 8, 2011
Colm Brophy SJ, currently working with JUST Ballymun, led a session on ‘The Dreamer as Artist’ at a conference marking the close of the art exhibition of Maria Place, Ballymun...
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Short Notices
February 8, 2011
Belvederians won the Intermediate Medley and the Freestyle Relay in the Leinster Schools Championships; and in the national championships they won 2nd place in the Under 14 Breaststroke, and 3rd...
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What it’s like to be visited
February 8, 2011
Pope Benedict, writing to the people of Ireland last March, said that he intended to ‘hold an Apostolic Visitation of certain dioceses in Ireland, as well as seminaries and religious...
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Jesuits sponsor young film-makers
February 8, 2011
The Conference of European Jesuit Provincials is sponsoring a competition for young film-makers. Five Inigo Awards will be given to the best short films illustrating the theme ‘City of God’,...
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Jesuit = Value Added
February 8, 2011
President McAleese honoured the 60th birthday of Gonzaga College by a formal visit on 1 February. In the Library she met students from the Habitat for Humanity project and Young Scientist...
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Learn to know what we see
February 8, 2011
Conall O’Cuinn SJ, for the second year, conducted a workshop for the Dioceses of Armagh and Dromore with a group of 7 prospective deacons and their wives on the theme...
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JESUITICA: Going multi-denominational
February 8, 2011
Attentive readers of AMDG Express (7 December, 2010) will have noticed that in founding Clongowes, Fr Peter Kenney told Sir Robert Peel that he intended to establish a lay school for...
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African exchange
February 8, 2011
Claire Broderick and the students of Elements Xavier, Belvedere College, along with John Guiney SJ and Deirdre Connolly from the Jesuit Mission Office, are working on a link project with...
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