Spirituality
Forthcoming events
February 22, 2011
Tuesday 22 February: Public Lecture entitled “Church and Faith” speaker Fr. Gerry O’Hanlon SJ. Will be held in St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, at 8pm. For details...
Read moreTo speak or not to speak?
February 22, 2011
The King’s Speech, a film about how an unorthodox Australian speech therapist helps the British King George VI overcome his serious stammering problem, has been widely acclaimed by critics and...
Read morePeter Hannan’s website
February 22, 2011
Peter Hannan has created his own website: http://www.peterhannan.ie. The 76-year-old Jesuit, now based in Manresa, has gone online to communicate his central message: the passionate desire of the three persons of...
Read moreStamp for a polymath
February 22, 2011
It is just 300 years since Joseph Boscovich Bettera was born in what is now Croatia, and his native land is naming 2011 “National Boscovich Year”, and featuring its Jesuit...
Read moreJESUITICA: Rebel stock
February 22, 2011
A curious bond links the first scholastic of the restored Irish Mission with the oldest Jesuit in our Chinese mission: both lost their fathers to execution by the British. Bartholomew...
Read moreNoel and GMH
February 22, 2011
For Jesuits who depend in many ways on the administrative abilities of Fr Socius (Provincial’s secretary), it is consoling to know that our efficient Noel Barber has a poetically different...
Read moreForthcoming events
February 8, 2011
8 February: Public lecture entitled “Growing in Faith”; speaker Fr. Donal Neary SJ. Will be held in St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, at 8pm in the Fr....
Read moreIn your dreams!
February 8, 2011
Colm Brophy SJ, currently working with JUST Ballymun, led a session on ‘The Dreamer as Artist’ at a conference marking the close of the art exhibition of Maria Place, Ballymun...
Read moreShort Notices
February 8, 2011
Belvederians won the Intermediate Medley and the Freestyle Relay in the Leinster Schools Championships; and in the national championships they won 2nd place in the Under 14 Breaststroke, and 3rd...
Read moreWhat it’s like to be visited
February 8, 2011
Pope Benedict, writing to the people of Ireland last March, said that he intended to ‘hold an Apostolic Visitation of certain dioceses in Ireland, as well as seminaries and religious...
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