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JRS 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...

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Deacon 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....

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Is 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...

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Help 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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Short notices

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,...

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A 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....

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Losing 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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