Brendan McManus SJ
Brendan McManus SJ on Tertianship
December 5, 2014
Irish Jesuits · Brendan McManus SJ on Tertianship In this interview Brendan McManus SJ likens the tertianship training year, part of the Jesuit cycle of formation, to taking apart a...
Read moreSharing the grief
November 28, 2014
Dr John Connolly, founder secretary of the Irish Association of Suicidology, was guest speaker in the famous old Galway bookshop Charlie Byrnes where the owner Charlie Byrne (pictured on the...
Read moreRedemption Road: Grieving on the Camino
November 17, 2014
Struggling to come to terms with his brother’s suicide, Jesuit priest Brendan McManus decides to walk the Camino de Santiago, the famous Spanish pilgrimage route, where he undergoes a profoundly...
Read moreTime for straight talking
October 17, 2014
“When someone dies by suicide we ask ‘Why did it happen?’ And we need to say to each other that we do not know and we never know.” So said...
Read moreWalk, work, pray
August 29, 2014
The Jesuits brought 65 young people from around the world to Ireland (7-16 August), where they enriched their faith, and worked in justice projects, divided into four groups. The event...
Read moreBrendan McManus SJ
January 21, 2014
Brendan McManus’ love of walking and pilgrimage comes from being raised on a farm in Lisnaskea, in Northern Ireland. After studying psychology and I.T. at university, he worked in the...
Read moreColáiste Iognáid students retreat to sea
September 23, 2008
With the help of a number of Colaiste Iognaid teachers, Brendan McManus SJ began the school retreat programme last week. Each class in the school has a day away at...
Read moreSunsets and silhouettes
July 29, 2008
Brendan McManus SJ, former editor of AMDG Express, has received ‘Honourable mention: amateur’ in a photo competition organised by Company, a quarterly magazine of the US Jesuits. His photo (pictured...
Read moreThe Jesuits: God’s ‘secret agents’!
January 19, 2007
Brendan McManus SJ reviews a recent book about the Jesuits in 16th and 17th century Britain, a book which goes a long way towards rebutting the pejorative fictions about Jesuit...
Read moreJubilee celebration for Irish Loreto Sister in Calcutta
October 19, 2006
Sr Cyril, a Loreto sister in Calcutta, is well-known to the many Belvedere students who have worked on projects with her. She spoke challengingly at last week’s Gardiner St. Gospel...
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