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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...
Read morePeace 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...
Read more100 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...
Read moreVersatile 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreMP 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...
Read moreBeginnings
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...
Read moreHurray 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...
Read moreJESUITICA: 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...
Read moreForthcoming 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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