Spirituality
Week 2: Prey
March 6, 2017
Every Christian is a heretic at heart. That is a true, if theatrical, way of stating the obvious fact that all of us have our scriptural preferences. We make selections...
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Week 2: Pray
March 6, 2017
Butterflies, God bless them, are deeply attracted to the smell of human urine. That is not, of course, the first word in the sciences of the botany and/or biology of...
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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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Ignatian discernment for mental illness
March 1, 2017
GAVIN T. MURPHY :: Ignatian discernment has guided me through my journey with Bipolar Disorder and I am deeply grateful.
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Week 1: Stillness exercise
February 28, 2017
Stand on one leg and extend your left arm upwards in the shape of the spout of a teapot. Say to yourself out loud three times, first in Hebrew, then...
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Week 1: Gospel reading
February 28, 2017
Matthew 13 (New International Version) The Parable of the Sower That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered around him...
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Week 1: Prey
February 28, 2017
I grew up between two homes and two parishes. My parents lived in Dublin and my godparents in Wicklow. So, over the years, I would have heard this parable in...
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Lent 2017: Introduction
February 28, 2017
AIDAN MATHEWS A response from a religious illiterate in the Republic of Letters A WORD OF WARNING AND A WARNING ABOUT WORDS Because I was a little boy in the...
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Week 1: Pray
February 28, 2017
Broadcasting, which has been my job of work in a radio station for the past thirty years, understands itself, almost literally, as a form of sowing. In the last little...
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Following love into mystery
February 22, 2017
PAT COYLE: : As my daddy lay dying I learned about the mysterious, earth-bound love of God through the miraculous gift of an ear-drop squirter
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A Saint for our times
September 22, 2026 - An appreciation of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, on the 800th anniversary of his death, is our feature article from September's 'Messenger.
‘Reminders of Africa’
September 22, 2026 - Colm Brophy's latest paintings with an African theme are on show in Framexperts Framing and the Gallery, in Ranelagh, Dublin 6.
Requiem Mass for Fr Seán – 70 years a Jesuit
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.
Indian Jesuits write a new story
September 21, 2026 - After 59 years in Ranchi, Fr Aurel Brys SJ returns to say goodbye and witnesses how Indian Jesuits are shaping the mission’s future.
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