Spirituality

Short Notices

January 25, 2011

Cherryfield hosted a 90th birthday party for Brother Joe Cleary. His sisters Maura and Sally came up from the family home in Sandymount to enjoy the cake, the music provided...

Moyross walks tall

January 25, 2011

The people of Moyross, Limerick, who celebrated the RTE Radio Mass for the last two Sundays, have been buoyed up by the many messages received from people around Ireland, England...

Louis McRedmond RIP

January 25, 2011

The crowds who packed Dundrum church for the Removal and then the Funeral Mass for Louis McRedmond, were paying tribute not just to a major figure in Irish journalism –...

New Co-Ordinator for Ecumenism

January 11, 2011

Brian O’Leary SJ has been appointed the new Province Co-ordinator for Ecumenism, replacing the now Provincial, Tom Layden. He says his role will be “to keep the ecumenical dimension of...

11, 18, 25 January: ‘Steps-2-Serenity’ – series of 3 evenings in Manresa offering an opportunity for anyone in a 12-step programme prayerful reflection and meditation. For further information, phone 01-8331352...

Short Notices

January 11, 2011

Jesuit schoolboys Ed Byrne (Clongowes) and Gonzaga’s James Fitzpatrick worked hard for Ireland’s rugby Under-18s against England. Ed scored a sweet try under the posts. James’s tackling and tactical kicking...

Centres of reconciliation

January 11, 2011

Reconciliation, and the support of community effort, have always engaged Iona, the small Jesuit group in Portadown. In the last two months all four of them travelled to Limerick to study parallel...

Our man in S.F.

January 11, 2011

Perceptive readers will have noticed that the report on Declan Deane’s funeral in California, USA, was from Donal Godfrey; they may wonder what this Cork-born Jesuit is doing in the land...

Tom survives a battering

January 11, 2011

Galway-born Tom McGivern SJ was locking up Chula House in Lusaka, Zambia, on Thursday evening when he was set upon by a thug demanding money. Tom had very little, and...

The hills are alive with the sound of music

January 7, 2011

From the centre of snow-bound Munich, Irish Jesuit Niall Leahy (Niall Senior, not novice Niall) has given us a glimpse of an attractive pastoral side of his ministry. He has...

The Pope and the President

April 20, 2026 - Fr. Donal Godfrey SJ, reflects on the recent remarks of Pope Leo XIV and the response to them from Donald Trump and his administration.

‘A privilege to be part of it’

April 15, 2026 - The celebratory event to mark the historic Silver Jubilee of postgraduate studies in Applied Spirituality was a special day for all involved.

An attitude of gratitude

April 14, 2026 - Gratitude: The solution to worry, Kierkegaard claimed, was to make a leap of faith and put our trust in God’s enduring love.

April Messenger: Hope, renewal and growth

April 13, 2026 - In these uncertain times, the April Messenger offers rest and reflection, with themes of hope, renewal, gratitude and transformation in everyday life.