Spirituality
Wintry consolation in Athlone
January 25, 2011
When a meeting trebles its expected size, something is happening. So it was at the recent gathering of the Association of Catholic Priests in Athlone. Twenty were expected, but sixty...
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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...
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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...
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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 –...
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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...
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Forthcoming events
January 11, 2011
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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