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...

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Sharing 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...

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Redemption 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...

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Time 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...

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Walk, 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...

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Brendan 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...

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Coláiste 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...

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Sunsets 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...

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The 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...

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Jubilee 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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