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Following a star
January 13, 2009
On Tuesday 6 January, the feast of the Epiphany, Michael Hurley made a brief appearance on the RTE 1 programme Witness. He could be seen star-gazing through a telescope in...
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January 13, 2009
Fr Todd Morrissey’s book on Jesuits in Hong Kong, South China and Beyond will have its Irish launch in Milltown Park on Wednesday 28 January at 7.30pm. The Provincial, Fr...
Read moreBelvedere hosts China
January 13, 2009
Back in the 1960s they used to say the optimistic Irish schools were teaching Russian and the pessimists Chinese – so Belvedere’s Fr Schrenk taught Russian. Things have changed, though,...
Read moreJRS brings Christmas cheer to migrant kids
January 6, 2009
Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland ran a very successful Christmas toy appeal, collecting a huge number of toys for distribution to more than 120 children of migrants and asylum seekers. The...
Read moreDeacon Cathal
January 6, 2009
On 4 January Bishop John O’Riordan C.S.Sp. laid hands on Cathal Doherty and a Spiritan priest from Congo, who were to be the last two diaconal ordinations in Kimmage Manor....
Read moreIs Henry really a Jesuit?
January 6, 2009
An article in the Irish News of 5 January recalled the reconciliation work of Henry Grant SJ twenty years ago. One of the Protestants who attended Henry’s workshops was John...
Read moreHelp name a new Jesuit Website!
January 6, 2009
Conall O’Cuinn SJ, Irish Jesuit Vocations Director, is working with web developer Shane Lyons to develop a new website which aims to help people who have had a ‘call’ experience...
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January 6, 2009
Sr Avril O’Regan RLR will lead a series of seminars in Manresa on ‘Movies that Matter’. Participants will view a film and then reflect together, through the eyes of faith,...
Read moreA life of passion: Peter McVerry SJ
January 6, 2009
“There’s an orderly kind of aimlessness in the basement of 26 Sherrard Street…” So begins Kathy Sheridan’s Saturday Interview with Peter McVerry SJ in the Irish Times, 20 December 2008....
Read moreLosing John Dunne
January 6, 2009
In the consciousness of Irish Jesuits, the dominant mood this Epiphany is of loss. It is just a week since we buried John Dunne, who had been Socius (companion, secretary,...
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