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May 19, 2009
On 24 May at Bishop Lucey Park, Cork, Peter McVerry SJ will speak to and about families affected by the misuse of alcohol and other drugs, at a service remembering people who...
Read moreBoys for others
May 19, 2009
Clongowes 4th year (Transition Year) students were busy helping out collecting for the Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Medical & Research Foundation at the weekend. All the volunteers said that...
Read moreRunning for Slí Eile
May 19, 2009
In a monumental effort to raise funds for Slí Eile, director Padraig Swan ran a grueling 56 kilometres in the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town, South Africa in April....
Read moreShort notices
May 19, 2009
It is 35 years since Mungret closed. On 16 May some sixty alumni gathered for a reunion dinner with five Jesuits who had worked in the college as boys or...
Read moreTeaching post in China
May 19, 2009
Daniel Ross SJ, the Coordinator for Higher Education in the Jesuit Chinese Province ([email protected]) is looking for a Jesuit who might be ready to teach for a limited period in...
Read moreTraditions meet
May 13, 2009
Tuesday 12 May, at 7.30 p.m. in Gardiner Street Ignatian Room, Bertie Ahern TD launched Todd Morrissey’s new book: Where two traditions meet: John Sullivan SJ.
Read moreGrants for Africa
May 12, 2009
Murt Curry SJ and John Guiney SJ give a lot of time and care to preparing applications for funding for projects in Jesuit missions, mostly in Africa. They are happy...
Read moreBrian Lennon’s book on Forgiving
May 12, 2009
Brian Lennon’s book So You Can’t Forgive…? is now on its second printing. Recently he and Nuala O’Loan (former Police Ombudsman) were the speakers at a recent launch of it...
Read moreEaster in Sudan
May 12, 2009
Richard O’Dwyer SJ in South Sudan is still registering first impressions with the freshness of a new arrival. Here is his Easter message: “Just after I had shaken the last...
Read moreWhat is a saint?
May 12, 2009
Since AMDG Express often mentions book-launches, it should also be allowed to mention books that are not launched, which slip into the shops without benefit of wine, cheese or speeches...
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