Spirituality
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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Easter Tenebrae at Clongowes
March 29, 2018
Clongowes Wood College SJ staged the annual Easter liturgy of Tenebrae at the school's Sports Hall on 21 March
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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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The flowing magis
March 21, 2018
GAVIN T. MURPHY :: The author introduces the psycho-spiritual concept of 'the flowing magis' using Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez as a classic example.
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Pope’s visit to Ireland confirmed
March 21, 2018
Pope Francis wants more than a "once off celebrity concert buzz" for his visit to Ireland, says Irish Jesuit theologian Gerry O'Hanlon
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Studies: poetry, landscape and God
March 20, 2018
The Spring 2018 issue of Studies gives top billing to articles on poetry, particularly “lines of convergence and divergence” in Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney
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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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Ireland’s first ‘Spiritual Tourism’ conference
March 15, 2018
A multi-faith gathering from around the world attended a unique conference on pilgrimage and spiritual tourism organised by Michael O'Sullivan SJ
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The forgotten Archbishop of Dublin
March 14, 2018
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin launched 'The Life and Times of Daniel Murray: Archbishop of Dublin 1823–1852' by Todd Morrissey SJ on 13 March in Belvedere College SJ
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Irish Jesuit in Rome responds to Mary McAleese
March 13, 2018
Gerry Whelan SJ, theologian in the Gregorian University in Rome, assesses Mary McAleese's criticism of Pope Francis
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