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Welcomes and farewells at feastday Mass

August 17, 2010

The Mass for the 31 July feast of St Ignatius, at Gardiner St church, celebrated by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, was the occasion for the handover of service from Fr John...

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Peace in Portadown

August 17, 2010

AMDG Express seldom features the small Jesuit community in Churchill Park, Portadown, which was started in the days when Garvaghy Road and Drumcree were synonyms for sectarian tensions. Quiet, sustained...

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100 years on Leeson Street

August 17, 2010

The Leeson Street community celebrated its centenary happily. Bruce Bradley, who started St Ignatius’ Day in Farm Street, London, dashed over to give a carefully researched and memorable homily to Jesuits...

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Versatile Jim

August 17, 2010

With the death of Brother Jim Sutton last week, the Irish Jesuits lost a quiet man of multiple talents. Born in Glasnevin, and schooled by the Christian Brothers in Scoil...

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The Centenary Cluster

August 17, 2010

Alan McGuckian SJ in Belfast has joined a group of Unionist Protestants looking ahead to the Centenary Cluster – the set of centenary commemorations starting in 1912 with the Ulster...

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MP Gallagher on ‘Newman for today’

August 17, 2010

John Henry Newman is one of the ten people selected for exploration by Michael Paul Gallagher SJ in his latest book, Faith Maps, and on Wed 1 Sept, 7.30pm, the...

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Beginnings

August 17, 2010

As AMDG Express returns to production after the summer break, it makes a fresh start in more ways than one. The JCC’s beautiful room in Leeson Street is piled with...

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Hurray for Hopkins

August 17, 2010

On the first day of the 23rd Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival, Paul Andrews SJ stood on the grave of GMH (Fergus O’Donoghue marked the spot in the Jesuit plot in...

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JESUITICA: A man of vision

August 17, 2010

One of the treasures in Dublin’s Marsh’s Library is an early edition of  Oculus, hoc est, by Christoph Scheiner (1575-1650), a German Jesuit who showed for the first time a...

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Forthcoming Events

August 17, 2010

17 August: Conall O’Cuinn is guest speaker at Knock Novena 16-25 August: Eight-day retreat will be held in Manresa House, Clontarf Road, Dollymount.  For details, contact 01 8331352 24-28 August:...

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