Spirituality
Lent 2017: Conclusion
April 11, 2017
I’ve been asked for a short conclusion, which is rich, since I don’t believe in periods or in punctuation as anything other than necessary human helps in the live-stream sacredness...
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Week 6: Pray
April 11, 2017
Go back to that moment in the garden. Go back to that moment when the water-sprinklers, those dirty little rubber-and-metal spigots you stub your flip-flop toe against in the scutch...
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Derek Cassidy SJ – a soulful presence
April 5, 2017
Mourners pay tribute to the life of Fr Derek Cassidy SJ who died peacefully on 30 March, 2017.
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In the shadow of the cross
April 5, 2017
Clongowes Wood College held a moving Tenebrae Service on Sunday, marking the events of Christ passion and death
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Week 5: Stillness exercise
April 4, 2017
So it’s late on a Friday afternoon in the open-plan office where I work, and I need to compose the phrasing of some sort of stillness exercise by six o’clock...
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Week 5: Gospel reading
April 4, 2017
The Parable of the Wandering Sheep “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face...
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Week 5: Prey
April 4, 2017
The same master, a hearty, hirsute baritone, taught me Latin and Greek at each stop on the three scholastic terraces, prep, secondary, and college; and, because he looked quite Olympian,...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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September 21, 2026 - Seán Ó Cearbhalláin SJ "showed early signs of his future vocation growing up in the Bogside," mourners in his native Derry were told.
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