20090127

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,...

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Vatican 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...

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JCFJ 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...

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“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...

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Memories 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....

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Jes 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,...

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North 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...

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Salvadoran 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...

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Short 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...

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O.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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