Advent
Nesting and the season of Advent
December 20, 2022
CHRISTINE HALLORAN :: Suggestions to feather our hearts for Jesus' arrival inspired by a mother's experience of urgently getting ready for her new baby.
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Advent week of guided prayer
December 19, 2022
Iva Beranek, Manager of Gardiner Street Parish, reports on participants' profound experiences with God in the Ignatian tradition.
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Advent: Make a fresh start
November 21, 2022
Fr Joe Cullen OP refers to the Jesuit-inspired film The Mission (1986) with regard to turning a painful past into a hopeful future.
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An expectant mother’s experience of Advent
December 16, 2021
Author Helen Gallivan speaks of a whole new appreciation of the incarnation and birth of Christ in this podcast from the RNN archives.
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Donal Neary SJ: Waiting for Christmas
November 30, 2021
The Irish Jesuit and editor of The Sacred Heart Messenger magazine explores an important theme for the season of Advent
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Journeying the ecological path
November 30, 2021
Brendan McManus SJ takes us to the family farm at Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, where his journey to ecological awareness began.
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Embracing the grace of Advent
September 21, 2021
Messenger Publications are offering books specifically geared for the Advent season including a popular Biblical commentary by Kieran J O'Mahony OSA
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Books for Advent and Christmas
December 9, 2020
Messenger Publications have published a big collection of books for Advent and Christmas
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Gardiner Street Parish: A hub of activity
December 8, 2020
Parishioners of St Francis Xavier's Church in Dublin are busy preparing for Christmas and the Ignatian Year 2021-2022
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Holy waiting
November 25, 2020
GAVIN THOMAS MURPHY :: A reflection on being patient and staying awake for the first week of Advent.
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“Your clothes are stained with our blood”
January 24, 2023 - Dr Kevin Hargaden of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice was shocked by what he learnt at a conference in Bangladesh, exploring the idea of a 'just wage' there.
Biography of a Jesuit-educated judge
January 23, 2023 - 'Judge John O'Hagan, 1825-1890', on the life of a respected patriot, poet, scholar and lawyer, is among the most recent Messenger books.
Mícheál Mac Gréil SJ: RIP
January 21, 2023 - President Michael D. Higgins has led the tributes to Mícheál Mac Gréil SJ, the social justice activist and community campaigner who died on 21 January, aged 92.
Fifty-eight most powerful words
January 20, 2023 - "The fifty-eight most powerful words in the world." is how Richard Leonard SJ describes the Lord's Prayer, in his latest book The Law of Love.
Latest Podcasts
“Your clothes are stained with our blood”
January 24, 2023
Fifty-eight most powerful words
January 20, 2023
Pope Benedict and the abuse scandals
January 19, 2023
Benedict XVI’s theological legacy
January 10, 2023
Latest Videos
Pope Video: For educators
January 11, 2023
Pope Video: For volunteer organisations
December 5, 2022
Jesuit vocations film – ‘Walking with Jesus Christ’
December 5, 2022
Pope Video: For children who suffer
November 4, 2022
Latest Books
Biography of a Jesuit-educated judge
January 23, 2023
‘The Mindful Our Father’ – New Messenger book
January 3, 2023
Disciples of courage
December 2, 2022
Maynooth College: Essays on dying and death
November 17, 2022
