Spirituality

Lent 2017: Week 5

Week 5: Pray

April 4, 2017

A word to the wise: the Lord will always surprise us. Nothing is predictable, especially prophecy, which predicts nothing other than the fact that the future is always and everywhere...

Inspirational Jesuits

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

April 4, 2017

Author of 'The Phenomenon of the Spirit' and 'The Phenomenon of Man', Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French paleontologist and geologist who spent many years in China.

Lent 2017: Week 4

Week 4: Stillness exercise

March 25, 2017

I know from umpteen paperback apologetics that Spiritus in Latin and Pneuma in Greek and Ruadh in Hebrew all signify breath of some sort, the oxygenating impetus that aerates biochemical...

Lent 2017

Week 4: Gospel reading

March 25, 2017

The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and...

Lent 2017: Week 4

Week 4: Prey

March 25, 2017

In my first year in the senior house at school, the same good-looking Jesuit priest (so recently ordained that we still sometimes addressed him as Mr.) introduced us to the...

Lent 2017: Week 4

Week 4: Pray

March 25, 2017

Do not despair, dear reader. The first definition of “priceless” in any reputable dictionary will tell you that it means “so precious its value cannot be determined”; “of immeasurable worth”;...

Inspirational Jesuits

Saint Jean de Brébeuf

March 22, 2017

A patron saint of Canada, Jean de Brébeuf lived among the Huron indigenous people and was one of the North American martyrs.

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Where to for the Irish Church?

March 22, 2017

The lead articles of the Spring 2017 issue of Studies all concur in the judgement that a phase – at least a phase – of Irish Catholicism has ended

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‘Crazy World’

March 22, 2017

Brendan McManus SJ, author of 'Redemption Road: Grieving on the Camino', had an unforgettable moment at a recent concert featuring the popular Irish rock band Aslan