Spirituality
JESUITICA: Jumping Jesuits
June 2, 2009
Travellers in the Beara Peninsula will remember the Priest’s Leap, a mountain cliff in the townland of Cummeenshrule, where (around 1600 AD) a priest on horseback escaped from pursuing soldiers...
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June 2, 2009
Sixth year Jes student, Eoin Griffin, presents his Irish Rugby jersey to school principal, Bernie O’Connell, accompanied by senior rugby coach, Paul Kilraine, on Tuesday 26th May 2009. Eoin was...
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June 2, 2009
The Annual Belvedere Block-Pull will take place from Thursday 11 June to Sunday 21 June. Over this period, students will spend three days in the Dublin area, then walk to...
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May 26, 2009
Gerry O’Hanlon, S.J., of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, appeared on Joe Duffy’s Spirit Level on RTE last Sunday morning, May 24th. Gerry was on a panel with...
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May 26, 2009
“We cannot but be attentive,” said Fr Federico Lombardi SJ, Vatican Press Office Director, this week, “to the direction in which communications are moving, nor can we allow ourselves to...
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May 26, 2009
Joe Greenan of Partners in Mission and Eoin Carroll of the Jesuit Centre of Faith and Justice attended a course on ‘Living and Working in an Ignatian Way’, run by...
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May 26, 2009
One face missing from the Mungret Reunion, featured in last week’s AMDG Express, was Giovanni Lajolo, who attended the college from 1950-51. On one occasion his noisy misbehaviour in Latin...
Read moreJESUITICA: Jesuits taking cover
May 26, 2009
English diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706) noted in his diary on 22 June 1664: “A Catholic priest called Thompson, sent by the Jesuits of Japan and China to France, showed me...
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May 26, 2009
The first informal meeting of Jesuit hospital chaplains convened recently in a Ranelagh restauant. Around the table from left to right are: John Brady, Mary Rickard, Frank Doyle, John O’Keeffe, Fergus...
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May 19, 2009
On 24 May at Bishop Lucey Park, Cork, Peter McVerry SJ will speak to and about families affected by the misuse of alcohol and other drugs, at a service remembering people who...
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