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Ignatian Pilgrims

September 2, 2008

Last month Fergus O’Donoghue SJ led a group of 34 Irish prilgrims to Spain. He writes: “The pilgrimage is based on St. Ignatius’s Autobiography and is intended to bring pilgrims...

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Short notices

September 2, 2008

Starting on 1 September, 2008, there are a number of events to celebrate the golden jubilee of St Declan’s school, Northumberland Road – the secret Jesuit school! Keep in touch...

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Brendan is gone, long live Brendan

September 2, 2008

You may wonder what has happened to Brendan McManus, the first and late editor of AMDG Express. After an intense immersion course in the Conemara Gaeltacht, putting a Galway blas...

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Young partners

September 1, 2008

Three initiatives this summer reflect the vital importance of our partners in mission: JVI: Fr Liam O’Connell, who directs Jesuit Volunteers International, sent us word of two new volunteers, Josephine...

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Bart rides the tide

September 1, 2008

Fifty years ago Fr Bart Kiely SJ, now professor of psychology at the Gregorian University, won the Lee swim as a 16-year-old. It is a different race now, 1700 metres...

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World Youth Day

September 1, 2008

The young Irish who represented Sli Eile at the World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, wrote these reflections while still fresh from the experience: Conor: In Australia the ‘I’ bowed...

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Figures in a landscape

September 1, 2008

How many readers will recognise these three distinguished figures and the landscape behind them? On 7th August five Irish Jesuits (Paul Andrews, Paddy Heelan, John Moore, Jimmy Hurley and Hugh...

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Fatima Fiesta

September 1, 2008

The quinquennial world assembly of the Christian Life Community was held this August in Fatima, on the theme: “Journeying as an apostolic body: our response to the grace of God”....

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