Spirituality

Advent: a season of spiritual nourishment

November 26, 2024

The season of Advent is full of contradictions as well as a time for spiritual nourishment, according to Dr Kevin Hargaden, Presbyterian Elder

Praying with the Bible

November 26, 2024

Nikolaas Sintobin SJ has recently published a book entitled 'Praying with the Bible'. It features suggestions of prayer to accompany a sequence of fifty Bible texts.

December Messenger: Feast of Light

November 25, 2024

How best to celebrate Christmas and where can we find the light in dark days? These are just some of the questions addressed in the December 'Messenger.'

JCFJ guide to pre-election asks

November 25, 2024

Rising inequality; the housing and homeless crisis; climate change; war. These are the many "wicked issues" that feature in the JCFJ Manifesto

Tomáš Halík at the Belfast Jesuit Centre

November 11, 2024

World-renowned Czech theologian Tomáš Halík called on Catholics to move with ‘the signs of the times’ at the Belfast Jesuit Centre book club.

The Pope Video: For those who have lost a child 

November 5, 2024

In The Pope Video, produced by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, Pope Francis asks that we pray for those who have lost a child.

Halloween’s darkness and light

October 30, 2024

Halloween is both a festive fun time and a reminder of death and the darker side of life, according to Fr Jim Noonan in this RNN interview.

Remembering the ‘saints with no name’

October 30, 2024

Joe Cullen OP remembers all those who have died, especially the unnamed, in this reflection on All Saints and All Souls day. From the RNN archive.

November Messenger: Living presence

October 30, 2024

Why pray for the dead? Why sing in church? What happens when we die? These questions are addressed in the November 'Messenger'.

Sons of Ignatius: Homily Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

October 29, 2024