Spirituality

Christmas Gift Ideas

December 15, 2009

GIFT IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS Joseph Ratzinger’s Theological Ideas Jim Corkery SJ Ignatian Spirituality Brian O’Leary SJ Sacred Space Yearbook 2010 Irish Jesuits Meetings Matter Phyllis Brady Brian Grogan SJ So...

Christmas blessings from Jesuit Communication Centre

December 11, 2009

Funeral of Cecil McGarry SJ

December 8, 2009

Over 500 people gathered in St. John the Evangelist Church in Nairobi to bid farewell to Cecil McGarry SJ on Saturday, November 28th 2010. The Chapel in Mwangaza Spirituality centre...

Forthcoming events

December 8, 2009

10 December: Michael O’Sullivan SJ launches “The Coldest Night: A Family’s Experience of Suicide” by Carol Anne Milton. All Hallows College, Drumcondra: 5pm. 14 December: Soul Journey – evenings of...

Pioneering and the community

December 8, 2009

Over 150 people attended a very successful “Pioneering and the Community” event which the Eglish Pioneer Association, Northern Ireland ran last month. The event brought together some of Northern Ireland’s...

Ireland and the Jews

December 8, 2009

“God has kept true to both Christians and Jews, and is steadily throwing light on our similarities.” So writes Tom Casey SJ in one of his contributions to The Bridge,...

Looking steadily at death

December 8, 2009

A copy of this year’s winter issue of Studies should be sent to every school in the country, said Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, the veteran RTE broadcaster, at the Studies launch...

Reflection on the recession

December 8, 2009

“The truth will set you free.”  So said Michael D. Higgins TD (pictured here) at an evening prayer service in the Jesuit Church in Galway on Sunday 29 November. Almost...

JESUITICA: Casting light on the sun

December 8, 2009

Curious that one of the pioneers of the scientific study of the sun should be called Scheiner. The man in question, Christoph Scheiner (1579-1650), was a German Jesuit and an...

Cecil McGarry, SJ

November 25, 2009

Cecil McGarry SJ, Irish Provincial from 1969-1975, died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday 24 November, in Nairobi, Kenya. After his time as Provincial, Fr Cecil spent some years as...