Spirituality

Forthcoming Events

April 19, 2011

Tuesday 19 April: Lenten Prayer Evening, Manresa Jesuit Centre of Spirituality, at 7.30pm. Further information, Tel: 8331352 or www.manresa.ie Tuesday 19 April: Service of Reconciliation at 7.30pm in St. Francis...

Michael Hurley SJ, RIP

April 15, 2011

Well-known ecumenist and co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics (ISE), Michael Hurley SJ, died this morning, Friday 15 April, at 7am in St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. He was 87...

Forthcoming events

April 5, 2011

Tuesday 5 April: Lenten Prayer Evening, facilitated prayer in the Ignatian tradition will be held in Manresa, Jesuit Centre of Spirituality, 426 Clontarf Road, Dollymount, Dublin 3. Tel: 8331352 or...

Mother Teresa and a Preferential Option for the Poor

April 5, 2011

Excerpts from a talk given during a course of public lectures on Mother Teresa, March-April, 2011 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. Mother Teresa and a Preferential Option for the...

Short Notices

April 5, 2011

Heart of a Jesuit, the Irish Jesuit Vocations website, has a new poster, a section of which is pictured here, devised by Graphics Artist Aine Kierans and Jesuit novice Niall...

A pastor in the Greg

April 5, 2011

Irish Jesuit Gerry Whelan, who teaches pastoral theology and fundamental theology in the Gregorian University, Rome, is coordinating a series of public lectures for the centenary of Mother Teresa’s birth,...

Lent as desert

April 5, 2011

A flute playing, Irish speaking, Church of Ireland minister from the Protestant heartland of East Belfast is the interviewee on Lenten Voices for the fourth week of Lent. Rev Gary...

Plato in Ballymun

April 5, 2011

J.U.S.T., the Jesuit University Support and Training Project in Ballymun, run cultural programmes in addition to their work with undergraduates. Director Kevin O’Higgins SJ launched a course of Philosophy for Beginners, hoping that...

The leader within

April 5, 2011

Fifteen people completed the first Arrupe Leadership Progamme in Ireland, having spent six weekends over six months, examining leadership from a faith-based and Ignatian perspective. The course which took place...

What makes a school Jesuit?

April 5, 2011

Australian Jesuit Richard Leonard was back in Ireland in late March to give three workshops. On Friday 25 March, he led teachers from the Jesuit colleges in exploring what it...

An inheritance held in trust

June 29, 2026 - Dr Kevin Hargaden of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice explores the changing relationship between people, farming, and the land.

Sculpting a Saint

June 23, 2026 - RNN archive July: Dony MacManus reflects on crafting his bronze statue of St. Oliver Plunkett (martyred 1 July 1681) and the inspiration behind it.

The Role of the Body in Christian Spirituality

June 17, 2026 - A number of Jesuits presented at a major international symposium in Dublin organised by SpIRE and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.

Sacred Heart Novena touched human hearts

June 16, 2026 - This year's novena to the Sacred Heart in Gardiner St Church and The Messenger magazine drew people close to the heart of Jesus in various ways.