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A Jesuit with the People
April 18, 2018
The American Irish Teachers Association have announced that they will screen 'A Jesuit with the People', a short documentary about Michael O'Sullivan SJ
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Lent 2018: Week after Lent: The Displacement of Home
April 1, 2018
Read 1 Peter 2:4-12 When did secularity become ascendant in Ireland? Was it when pubs were allowed to be opened on Sunday in Northern Ireland, which only happened in 1989?...
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‘Laudato Tree’ project launched in Áras
March 29, 2018
A number of groups, including Jesuit representatives, attended the launch of an imaginative environmental initiative in Ireland that could transform Africa
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Lent 2018: Week 7 – The captive God
March 29, 2018
Read Matthew 27:11-26 Throughout Lent, we have considered the complex meaning of “home” in the Scriptures. Home is both a thing to be treasured – a destination longed for by...
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Lent 2018: Week 6 – The wandering God
March 20, 2018
Read: Luke 15:11-32 The parable we consider this week is perhaps, along with the Good Samaritan, the best-known and most-loved of all Jesus’ divine yarns. There is, of course, no...
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Lent 2018: Week 5 – The refugee God
March 13, 2018
Read: Matthew 2:13-18 How rare it is that in the midst of the crass consumerism and sentimental spirituality that is modern Christmas that we reflect on the first people invited...
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Singing ‘We are the Church’
March 7, 2018
GAVIN T. MURPHY :: An experience at the once Jesuit church in Ballymun triggered the author to follow a path of inclusivity which will not stop at the World Meeting...
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Emergency response to rescue homeless
March 7, 2018
The Peter McVerry Trust sheltered hundreds of homeless people in what was the largest single mobilisation of emergency beds
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Lent 2018: Week 4 – The shock of exile
March 5, 2018
Read Psalm 137 and Jeremiah 30:12-17 While “exodus” is a central motif by which to make sense of the entire Scriptures, “exile” plays a similarly large role. In exodus, the...
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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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