Lent
Lent 2018: Week 3 – The hope of home
February 28, 2018
Read Joshua 3:7-17 Abram was called out of Ur and on that pilgrimage he received a new name (Abraham) and a lineage. But the children of Isaac and Jacob found...
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Lent 2018: Week 2 – The risk of leaving our father’s home
February 19, 2018
Read Genesis 12 The reader cannot fail to note the decisive break between the end of Genesis chapter 11, where we come to the end of the story about Babel...
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Lent 2018: Week 1 – The first eviction
February 14, 2018
Read Genesis 1-3 Let us begin at the beginning. To do that – to read Genesis 1-3 again at the start of Lent – we must begin by putting aside...
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Lent, the bible and the housing crisis
February 12, 2018
Kevin Hargaden, social justice theologian with the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has written a lenten retreat with a difference, in order to make a difference
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Home thoughts from the Bible: Introduction
February 12, 2018
The story the bible tells begins with the making of home. Scholars often note how Genesis 1 and 2 depict God crafting an ordered universe out of chaos as a...
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Jesuit Centre’s unique Lenten strategy
February 6, 2018
Are you up for a six-week, ten minute a day Lenten challenge involving a spiritual practice of your choice and your own prayer guide?
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A Lenten treat
March 6, 2017
Aidan Mathews, RTÉ producer, playwright and poet, has written an online lenten retreat for Irish Jesuit Communications
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New Lent booklet published
March 2, 2017
In his Lenten booklet, Fr Vincent Sherlock invites us to follow the Stations of the Cross in the shoes of the woman who is found in adultery.
Read moreMAR10: Lenten Prayer Evening
February 10, 2015
As a way of preparing for Easter, Manresa offers short sessions of guided prayer and meditation on each Tuesday of Lent. These evenings create a ‘sacred space’ for you to...
Read moreMAR03: Lenten Prayer Evening
February 10, 2015
As a way of preparing for Easter, Manresa offers short sessions of guided prayer and meditation on each Tuesday of Lent. These evenings create a ‘sacred space’ for you to...
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The ‘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'
Pope Francis: The ‘zig-zag Pope’
March 22, 2023 - Gerry Whelan SJ, Director of the Department of Fundamental Theology in the Gregorian University in Rome assesses the last ten years of Pope Francis' papacy.
‘Reimagining Religion’
March 22, 2023 - Jim Maher SJ's book @Reimagining Religion' addresses a fundamental spiritual malaise that expresses itself through injustice, wars, xenophobia, narcissism, exclusion, and other dehumanising behaviours.
‘Racism is the opposite of encounter’
March 21, 2023 - The Irish Jesuit Refugee Service marks International Day against Racism and welcomes Bishops' statement challenging the rise of racism and xenophobia.
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