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Money for missions
August 30, 2011
Money for missions goes out constantly from Ireland to Africa, and is monitored scrupulously by, among others, the Jesuit Mission Office. A recent grant of €88,000 will help a new...
Read more‘Be like giraffes!’, Magis pilgrims told
August 30, 2011
Fifty-one participants travelled with Magis Ireland to be part of the MAGiS-World Youth Day’s seventeen-day programme in Spain this August. It began energetically in Loyola where the Irish contingent joined...
Read moreForthcoming Events
August 30, 2011
Tuesday 30 August: Public Lecture by Michael Paul Gallagher SJ entitled ‘The Imagination – A Spiritual Anchor for Today’ in St. Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1 at 7.30pm....
Read moreShort Notices
August 30, 2011
John O’Malley SJ author of What Happened at Vatican II, will be visiting Ireland on the invitation of the Irish Jesuit Province and the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland. He...
Read moreGood results
August 30, 2011
The day of the Leaving Certificate results, Crescent College put on a breakfast for 137 happy graduates. It was a good morning there and in the other Jesuit colleges –...
Read moreThe long walk
August 30, 2011
In the course of their two-year noviciate Jesuits have to face what they call an experiment. Here is an example: Irishman Niall Leahy and Christian Keeley from Britain were given...
Read moreThey come back empty
August 30, 2011
“Thank you”, said the Tonga mothers to Frank Wafer, “for teaching our children to read and write, so they can get jobs and earn something. But when they come back...
Read moreA priceless Gospel
August 30, 2011
The St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest surviving intact European book and one of the world’s most significant books, has been treasured (in Stonyhurst College Library) by the British Jesuits since...
Read moreShaping a garden
August 30, 2011
Milltown has developed a lovely walled garden which serves both its community and Cherryfield (see photo album here). It comprised the former open-air swimming pool and the old walled-off garden...
Read moreCongo: exchanging gifts
August 30, 2011
The exotic garment on Peter Sexton was a gift from the Central African Province, in gratitude for the gift of Peter himself. He has just returned from giving two 8-day...
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