Lent
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.
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Resurrection and renewal
April 19, 2011
Lutheran Pastor Corinna Diestelkamp and Godfrey O’Donnell, a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church, are the final interviewees in the series Lenten Voices, a joint venture between the Jeusit Communication...
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Lent as desert
April 5, 2011
A flute playing, Irish speaking, Church of Ireland minister from the Protestant heartland of East Belfast is the interviewee on Lenten Voices for the fourth week of Lent. Rev Gary...
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Lent revisited
March 22, 2011
Presbyterian minister Katherine Myers spoke recently to Pat Coyle in an interview/podcast, part of the lenten series organised jointly by the Jesuit Communciation Centre and Brian O’Leary SJ, Province Delegate...
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