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New Socius
January 27, 2009
Before our next Express, Noel Barber will be Socius to the Provincial, taking up the job on 2nd February. The job of Socius is not mentioned in St Ignatius’ Constitutions,...
Read moreVatican II: fifty years on
January 27, 2009
To mark the 50th anniversary of the calling of the second Vatican Council, Brendan Staunton SJ will be guest lecturer in The Milltown Institute on Monday Feb 16 2009 at...
Read moreJCFJ trip studies support after prison
January 27, 2009
Tony O’Riordan SJ and Eoin Carroll, from the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, recently hosted a study trip to a number of support projects for people coming out of...
Read more“Faith in crisis or in question?”
January 27, 2009
“Faith in Crisis or in Question?” is the theme for a series of weekly lectures beginning in the Milltown Institute, Sandford Rd., Dublin 6. The first, entitled ‘Church and Society in Ireland – Historical Perspectives’, on...
Read moreMemories of Father Tom
January 27, 2009
Nine days after his 94th birthday Tom McMahon died peacefully on Saturday 24 January in Cherryfield, which he never tired of praising for the happiness and hope he enjoyed there....
Read moreJes students on Kairos retreat
January 27, 2009
School chaplain Brendan McManus SJ was assisted by Conall O’Cuinn SJ in directing the Coláiste Iognáid (Jes) Kairos retreat, 23-26 January, held in Clongowes. Teachers Elaine Coffey and Liam Maughan,...
Read moreNorth City choirs alive and well!
January 27, 2009
Last weekend choirs from Gardiner St, North William St and Iona Rd churches enjoyed a workshop on music ministry with Ian Callanan, who is a composer himself of some beautiful...
Read moreSalvadoran Martyrs
January 27, 2009
A Spanish court has begun an investigation into the murder of six Jesuits (five of them Spanish citizens) and two laywomen in El Salvador in 1989. Although two soldiers were...
Read moreShort notices
January 27, 2009
Fr Leonard Chiti of the Zambia-Malawi province, currently a tertian in Manresa, has joined the Clongowes community until Easter. He is very active in the school – in fact, he’s...
Read moreO.C. Music-maker
January 27, 2009
Old Clongownian Owen Brady is being hailed as Dublin’s next big thing in music. A singer (starting as a boy soprano) and songwriter who left Clongowes in 1999, he has...
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