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Forthcoming events

October 12, 2010

12 and 19 October at Manresa: Gerry O’Hanlon SJ will give three talks on A Renewed Vision for the Church. From 8.00pm to 9.30pm. Wednesdays of October: 8 pm, Gardiner...

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Returning changed

October 12, 2010

This summer, over 70 young adults volunteered to work in Africa and Jamaica with Magis Ireland – Jesuit Centre for Young Adults. They worked on various justice projects including building for and working...

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A Belvederian might-have-been

October 12, 2010

In November 1977, Father Tom Lane, the Vincentian President of All Hallows College in Drumcondra, told the then Rector of Belvedere, Paul Andrews, that he wanted to dispose of some...

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Moving on

October 12, 2010

The Jesuit Communication Centre moved on Wednesday 1 October from its previous location in Leeson St to a warm welcome in the Irish Jesuit Provincialate, Milltown Park, Sandford Rd, Dublin 6. The team is...

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Going forward, looking back

October 12, 2010

A large group gathered in the Manresa Jesuit Centre for Spirituality, Clontarf, on Tuesday 5 October, for the first of three ‘conversations’ on “A Renewed Vision for the Church”. Jesuit...

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Short notices

October 12, 2010

The BBC has confirmed the transmission dates of The Big Silence, a three-part series made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC2, much of which was filmed at St Beuno’s Retreat...

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The joy of mission

October 12, 2010

October is Mission Month, and this year Mission Sunday falls on 24 October. The theme is ‘Together in Mission’ and across the world Christians will gather to remember and pray for the...

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Serve, study, pray

October 12, 2010

“Once you start praying you’ll never be bored again!” That’s what Irish Jesuit novice Niall Leahy told Sharon DiCecco in a wide-ranging interview on the Toronto-based religious radio station ‘Radio...

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JESUITICA: Earth-shakers

October 12, 2010

In the days when Rathfarnham Castle was still a residence for Jesuit university students, there was a seismograph (pictured here) housed in a small building off the drive. It was the...

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Calvin and Loyola

October 12, 2010

Two Irish Jesuits, Tom Layden and Laurence Murphy, took leading roles in a historic conference in Maynooth last weekend. It was historic because it brought together, in the national Catholic...

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