Lent
Sacred Space: Lent Retreat 2025
March 5, 2025
Sacred Space will continue their popular annual online retreat for Lent 2025»
Read moreThe origins of Lent
March 3, 2025
From the RNN Archives: Sister Marie Stuart talks with Father Brendan Coffey of Glenstal Abbey about the origins of Lent.
Read moreLent, drink and moderation
February 13, 2024
Drinking in moderation can be a positive step in self care leading towards spiritual growth.
Read moreSacred Space for Lent
February 7, 2024
Messenger Publications has just released Sacred Space for Lent 2024 a printed format of the internationally-known online prayer guide.
Read moreLent, love, and therapy
April 25, 2023
Jesuits, friends, and colleagues were busy during Lent, using the season to offer new and varied courses and rituals for people both in person and on Zoom.
Read more‘The fragility of God’
April 5, 2023
"I’ve been asked for a short conclusion, which is rich, since I don’t believe in periods or in punctuation..." Poet Aidan Mathews concludes his Lenten Retreat.
Read moreThe ‘beautiful’ shepherd
March 22, 2023
Aidan Mathews' Lenten retreat focuses on the parable of the Good Shepherd, with an interesting commentary on the appropriateness of the translation of the word 'good'
Read moreKickstart your Lenten resolutions with this hack
March 13, 2023
BRENDAN McMANUS SJ :: Becoming conscious of where we are with our Lenten resolutions and reflecting on what God wants enables us to find consolation.
Read moreLent is here!
February 24, 2023
Lent is the season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving…in secret. This Lent may your secret life with God be a true source of consolation for you and may you hear...
Read moreLent retreat: weeks 3-4
February 22, 2023
Weeks 2-4 off Aidan Mathews's online Lenten retreat on the theme 'the reign’ or ‘kingdom’ of God based on St Matthew's gospel.
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