Spirituality

Fin-again

February 24, 2009

The country, the Society of Jesus, the Irish Province and the Gardiner Street community combined beautifully and joyously to celebrate the first Irish Jesuit to reach the venerable age of...

A saint in the making

February 24, 2009

Over five hundred people attended the annual mass of thanksgiving and prayer for the canonisation of Fr John Sullivan SJ in Gardiner St Church on Saturday 21 February. Fr Tom Morrissey SJ gave...

Our first centenarian, An t-Athair Ó Fionnagáin

February 17, 2009

Wednesday 18 February sees a unique birthday. For the first time an Irish Jesuit has turned a hundred. In the face of Fr Proinsias Ó Fionnagáin you see a man prone...

Where is Richard O’Dwyer?

February 17, 2009

AMDG Express last located Richard O’Dwyer in Ethiopia. He moved from there to Nairobi in Kenya, where he spent a good Christmas with a Jesuit community. Since then he has...

Losing a linchpin

February 17, 2009

In any office there are usually one or two people who seem irreplaceable. In the Jesuit Communication Centre our web developer, John McDermott, fits that description, and alas, we have...

This month’s Ignatian Identity Group (IIG) meeting in Coláiste Iognáid tackled one of the Characteristics of Jesuit Education, In Pursuit of Excellence. Chaired by Conall Ó Cuinn SJ, it featured presentations...

At the frontiers – young people find God

February 17, 2009

Where do young people find God? In freedom and friendship, providence and prayer – not much mention of church, schooling or social justice. That was the message given convincingly to...

Retreat for parents

February 17, 2009

Slí Eile’s Debbie Moore and Colleen Brown from Boston College ran a retreat for parents, on the theme ‘Appreciation Parenthood’. While Audrey Hogan and Connie Dunne looked after the children,...

Short Notices

February 17, 2009

Connaught Hockey Final: Coláiste Iognáid convincingly won the Connaught Hockey final on 10 February in Dangean Park, Galway. They beat Our Lady’s Bower Secondary School, Athlone. With a final score...

Travelling the Pilgrim Road

February 10, 2009

On 3 February in Manresa, the Jesuit Centre of Spirituality, a group of 21 people led by Brendan Comerford SJ, and accompanied by Paddy Carberry SJ, Avril O’Regan RLR and...

Jesuits for Climate Justice in Bonn

June 4, 2026 - Follow the Jesuits for climate justice at SB64 in Germany through daily prayers, newsletters, and updates

Not for the faint-hearted!

June 3, 2026 - An appeal for refugees in a Jesuit church in Beirut, and tackling the negative stereotyping of asylum seekers - stories from Jesuit colleagues in media training in the Curia.

Warmly welcomed in Warsaw

June 3, 2026 - A warm welcome was extended by Polish Jesuits and colleagues to attendees of the annual meeting of Jesuit communications workers across Europe.