Fr John Hayes: a Jesuit at war

Limerickman Patrick McNamara has just published Their Name Liveth for Evermore, a book about the involvement of Limerick in the Second World War. Included is the story of Fr John Hayes SJ, a chaplain in the armed forces who died of typhus in Burma.

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John Hayes, the son of Michael and Agnes Hayes (nee Lyons), 21 Ascot Terrace, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick was born on 15th February 1909. His early education by the Jesuits at The Crescent College in the city was to be an introduction to the priestly life. Read more »

Lonergan’s Quest – Bill Mathews

Bill Mathews SJ launched his book on Lonergan in the Milltown Institute on Friday 24 November 2006. Entitled Lonergan’s Quest, the book explores the desire that drove Lonergan’s work, through exploring the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of Insight, Lonergan’s most famous work. Bill’s is a unique take on Lonergan: “The central thing was to understand and show his intellectual desire or passion at work in his life and giving it a sense of direction and unity”. Read more »

Making a song and dance about spirituality

Brendan McManus was introduced to Biodanza by a Colombian Jesuit. It uses music and dance to help people achieve harmony in their lives. Now a teacher of Biodanza, Brendan outlines how it can be a tool for Christian ministry.

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In the late 1960s, a clinical psychologist in Chile, Rolando Toro Arañeda, began investigating the effect of music and dance on psychiatric patients. Over the next few years he perfected a model to help people unblock their emotions, feelings and creativity while bringing balance and harmony to the body and mind. Read more »

The Shaun Doherty Magazine Show – Highland Radio Donegal

Following RTÉ’s <em>Final Judgement</em> programme on the issue of women’s ordination, Gerry O’Hanlon SJ was asked about this topic. The discussion on the popular morning programme of one of Ireland’s bigger local radio stations ranged widely on this and other matters.

When the archbishop meets the pope – International Herald Tribune

When the archbishop meets the pope <a href=”http://www.amdg.ie/blog/serendipity/exit.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5paHQuY29tL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMDYvMTEvMjIvb3Bpbmlvbi9lZHBlY2sucGhw&amp;entry_id=16″ onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/22/opinion/edpeck.php’;return true;” onmouseout=”window.status=”;return true;” title=”IHT”>International Herald Tribune</a> Keith Pecklers SJ<br />
<blockquote>”Today the world is a radically different place than it was back in 1966. All eyes will be on Pope Benedict XVI next week as he embarks on his visit to Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country, in the wake of the pontiff’s remarks on Islam several months ago.”</blockquote>

In the Poorer Quarters – RTÉ1

RTE’s Aidan Mathews, a former Gonzaga student, referred to his education by the “J’s” in his weekly Sunday programme, ‘<a href=”http://www.amdg.ie/blog/serendipity/exit.php?url_id=3&amp;entry_id=7″ onmouseover=”window.status=’http://tinyurl.com/yh7rpr’;return true;” onmouseout=”window.status=”;return true;” title=”In the Poorer Quarters”>In the Poorer Quarters</a>’. He was citing a Jewish friend who always titles his emails with “BH’ (Baruk HaShem- Glory to the Lord), which reminded him of writing AMDG on his copybooks. For Aidan, ever the poet, this practice “consecrates even soiled or spoiled attempts at meaning”. To hear the broadcast of 12 November (esp. the last two minutes): <a href=”http://www.amdg.ie/blog/serendipity/exit.php?url_id=3&amp;entry_id=7″ onmouseover=”window.status=’http://tinyurl.com/yh7rpr’;return true;” onmouseout=”window.status=”;return true;” title=”In the Poorer Quarters”> click here. </a>

Music of Pure Love – Thomas Casey

Tom Casey SJ has published a partly autobiographical book called <em><a href=”http://www.amdg.ie/blog/serendipity/exit.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50ZW1wbGVnYXRlLmNvbS9zdG9yZS9wcm9kdWN0X2luZm8ucGhwP3Byb2R1Y3RzX2lkPTIyOCAg&amp;entry_id=20″ onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.templegate.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=228 ‘;return true;” onmouseout=”window.status=”;return true;” title=”Link”>Music of Pure Love</a></em>. <br />
<blockquote>”In a time of bleak skepticism he [Thomas Casey] sounds a note of joyous idealism and personal generosity and a call for love in a self-centered world.” Father Benedict J. Groeschel, C.F.R.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>In this lyrical book, Thomas Casey sweeps us along on a pilgrimage toward pure love. Carefully distinguishing purity from prudery, he invites us to embark upon this journey with angels to unleash the limitless potential with which we are graced. Avoiding pop culture’s sentimentality, Casey uses angels to illuminate the way of life to which we are all invited, one that brings us ever closer to genuine holiness. “This book,” the author says, “is concerned above all with seeing ourselves and our world in a new way. This new vision unfolds in the light. The darkness that likes to lay siege to our souls must be firmly refused and forcefully rejected; the light is more than ready to embrace us.” To show how we are called to change our lives, he offers, among other illustrations, examples from popular culture, the opera Don Giovanni, and an imaginative reconstruction of the early Christian saint Cecilia. (<a href=”http://www.amdg.ie/blog/serendipity/exit.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50ZW1wbGVnYXRlLmNvbS9zdG9yZS9wcm9kdWN0X2luZm8ucGhwP3Byb2R1Y3RzX2lkPTIyOCAg&amp;entry_id=20″ onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.templegate.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=228 ‘;return true;” onmouseout=”window.status=”;return true;” title=”Link”>Publisher</a>)</blockquote>

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