January Messenger: A Year of Hope
January 14, 2025
A year of Hope, why pray for the dead? and choosing a word for the year, just some of the themes in this month’s January Messenger.
A year of Hope, why pray for the dead? and choosing a word for the year, just some of the themes in this month’s January Messenger.
Tom Layden SJ,Province Co-Ordinator for Ecumenism, is urging Jesuits and friends to take part in Christian Unity Week, 18 -25 January, 2025.
Another new year and another chance to make resolutions that we’ll probably break before the month is out. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Jesuit Edmond Grace and Imam Shamsudeen MacSeain jointly bemoan the lack of places for prayer in their local area and beyond.
Author Richard Leonard SJ reads a story about his mother’s acceptance of suffering and readiness for death, from his latest book ‘Why God?’
Dr Gerry O’Hanlon SJ assesses the outcome of the final Synod in Rome. He is surprisingly optimistic and outlines why to Pat Coyle, IJC.
The loving heart of Jesus is the focus of Pope Francis’ new encyclical. Austen Ivereigh explains the Pope’s devotion to the Sacred Heart.
Brian Grogan SJ, in this revised edition, provides daily meditations and Scripture verses which explore aspects of God’s dealings with us.
BILL TONER SJ :: People adopt different ‘personas’ in different circumstances. What about Jesus’s personas?
Pope Francis asks that we pray for migrants, refugees and those affected by war that they may have a right to an education in this months ‘Pope Video’
