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| Book launches come and go. So do buildings. Both are reported in this issue. The more startling news is the lasting impact of holiness. A hundred years after Fr John Sullivan walked and cycled the roads of Kildare, the memory of his healing presence can still bring people out in their thousands. See below: "The memory is strong". |
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The memory is strong
On 13 May Fr Conor Harper celebrated the anniversary of Fr John Sullivan’s birth with a Mass in Clongowes. It was a cold day, and John died 79 years ago, so one might question anxiously as to whether people would still turn up.
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Ladislas Orsy comes to town
Professor Ladislas Orsy SJ, distinguished Canon Lawyer and theologian, now at Georgetown University, is coming to Ireland in June. Though Canon Law has been described as “the dark side of the Good News”, Orsy has brought light into it, as a staunch champion of human rights and the heritage of Vatican Two, against deviant views inside and outside the church.
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Green Light
The history of the new building in Coláiste Iognáid has been a sad one. A year ago Cordil, the builder who had won the contract with a deceptively low tender, ran out of money and abandoned the job. For twelve months the Jesuits have been looking out on a mass of unfinished buildings. Now at last the Dept has given a green light to recommence building.
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On the Atlantic's edge
The Colaiste Iognaid Ignatian Identity Group (IIG) had its annual retreat in Achill this year. The IIG was set up to support the continuation of an Ignatian/Jesuit ethos in the Jes, as the numbers of Jesuits working in the school declines.
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Two prongs of Belvedere
At the end of the summer term, Belvedere’s senior students look back on two contrasting extra-curricular successes, one on the soccer field, the other in association with the Jesuit Refugee Service.
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From Savoy to Australia
An Australian Jesuit now working in Manresa is something of a throwback to Peter Faber, one of the founders of the Jesuits. Born in Savoy, Peter made the Spiritual Exercises under Ignatius, and for many years walked through France, Spain, Germany and Italy guiding individuals on the paths of interior prayer. Richard Shortall is doing something similar in a rural Australian diocese north of Melbourne.
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Around the Province
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 In a new stamp for the Titanic centenary, An Post features Jesuit photographer Fr Frank Browne. The montage shows Frank and the Titanic, against a background of Cobh harbour, where he got off the doomed ship at his Provincial’s orders. The Fr. Browne stamps are a collector’s items in booklet form of 2 images at a cost of €12 or you can buy them in a sheet of 16 (55c each stamp) at their website or at the GPO. The Irish stamps website gives information about the Fr. Browne images. - Congratulations to Eanna Kelly of Colaiste Iognaid, who won the Deirdre Clancy Gold Medal for taking first place in Ireland in history in his 2011 Leaving Certificate.
- The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice are hosting the Scribani 2012 Conference, “Re-imagining Imprisonment in Europe: Common Challenges, Diverse Policies and Practice”, from 5-7 September 2012. This is an inter-disciplinary conference which aims to analyse some of the key features of imprisonment throughout Europe today, including the political, social and economic forces shaping prison policy and practice, and to imagine what future imprisonment might look like. For more details, visit the JCFJ website.
- Paddy Tyrrell SJ is showing some of Ireland’s points of pilgrimage to a group of young friends from Illinois, USA. He climbed Croagh Patrick with them early one morning, and offered a dawn Mass on the summit. Next stop is Lough Gur in Limerick, then the Burren in Clare, and an ancient Mass-rock at Toor in County Tipperary: a strenuous week for a 78-year-old.
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Forthcoming events
- Thursday 31 May: Preparation Day for the International Eucharistic Conference 2012. Gardiner Street Church, Dublin 1, for further information Tel: 01 8363411, email sfx@jesuit.ie
- Tuesday 5 June: Training Day for Parish IEC volunteers. Gardiner Street Church, at 3pm
- Thursday 7 to Friday 15 June: Sacred Heart Novena in Gardiner Street Church
- Monday 11 to Saturday 16 June: Magis Ireland designed events in the city to help explore the daily themes of the Eucharistic Congress. For further information, contact noelle.fitzpatrick@magisireland.com or visit www.magisireland.com
We remember in our prayer
- Conor Reilly, an Irish Jesuit from 1947 to 1972, who has died in Oxfordshire
- Fr Niall O’Neill’s sister Marie O'Brien Moran, who has died in Tramore
- Fr John Moylan who is in hospital
- The sick in Cherryfield
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