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Belvedere win Senior Cup
March 18, 2008
In a hard-fought contest against St Mary’s College, Belvedere College’s rugby team won the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup on Sunday 16 March. Having beaten Terenure, Roscrea and Clongowes in the...
Read moreGetting to grips with the Gospels
March 18, 2008
Manresa is starting a weekly evening lecture series on ‘Introducing the Gospels’. Delivered by Fr Brendan Comerford SJ, the lectures will elucidate the background of the Gospels and tackle such...
Read moreBusy Broadcasting
March 18, 2008
It’s been a busy week media-wise for Jesuits and their colleagues. Piaras Jackson SJ was on the Seoige and O’Shea programme on RTE 1 television on Thursday March 13, talking...
Read moreMass of closure: homily of Fr Nicolás
March 18, 2008
The homily given by Father Adolfo Nicolás at the closing Mass of General Congregation 35 has been released in English. Speaking in Italian at the Church of the Gesù on...
Read more‘Lent Matters’ on local radio
March 18, 2008
There’s been a great response to RNN’s Lenten series ‘Lent Matters’ according to Eileen Good, Director of RNN. Five half-hour programmes on the theme of ‘journey’ have been broadcast on...
Read moreStations of the Cross on Sacred Space
March 18, 2008
Sacred Space presents a set of Kenyan-themed Stations of the Cross that are suitable for individual reflection and prayer. Both the images and the words are challenging and topical as...
Read moreGardiner Street garden prayer
March 13, 2008
Prayer and reflection on the events of Holy Thursday will take place in the garden of Gardiner St Church, starting at 8.45pm on Holy Thursday evening. Scripture readings and hymns...
Read moreArrivederci Roma
March 11, 2008
The former head of the Jesuit order left Rome for his new assignment on Sunday 9 March 2008. Father Kolvenbach left the Jesuit headquarters in Rome which had been his...
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GLOW: Girls learn their own worth
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