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Forgiveness is hard. But Jesus knows how much we need it.

AI technologies are driving automation on so many fronts. Many commentators believe that within two decades forty to fifty percent of people will not be able to find paid employment. At the moment, no institution is preparing properly for this eventuality.

The spirituality of failure: even though the Camino is a pilgrimage, people often turn it into a ‘trophy’ experience and boast about their success, avoiding any mention of failure which is much more commonplace and spiritually challenging. This book is about a botched Camino walk (The Camino Ignaciano in Spain) through injury that ironically illustrates key aspects of Ignatian Spirituality. Ignatius himself was a ‘wounded’ soldier and limped his way across Spain as he managed to turn apparent failure into a great conversion to Christ. Ignatius’ injury revealed that God had a better plan for him and letting go of control paradoxically allowed God in.

This book redefines spirituality as about "channelling the inner fire"; there is some God given desire within us that seeks expression. We are called to live like Christ, tuning into God's plan for us and how we could serve the world. This book synthesizes the Ignatian system into 15 easy to understand concrete aspects.

This book highlights that a saint is not made in one moment and that knowing God and oneself involves a process rather than a single event. The authors use seven distinct moments from the life of St Ignatius to illustrate how God works through the unexpected twists and turns of life and how this process plays out over a number of years.

This is the eagerly awaited follow up to the best selling, Finding God in the Mess. In this new collection the authors address tough issues such as fear, anxiety, suicide, anger etc.

This is a pilgrimage story of finding God in the messiness of less than ideal situations, developing a heartwarming friendship, and finding a way through using Ignatian principles of reflection and flexibility.

This book attempts to tell the story of the Church of Ireland in the context of Irish history, helping the reader to understand some of the situations in which the Church found itself, and still finds itself. Dr Milne is aware of the importance of writing about the Church's past in the context of the wider context of Irish history.

In 16th and 17th century Ireland religion and nationality fused together in a people's struggle to survive. In that struggle the country's links with Europe provided a life line. Members of religious orders, including the Irish Jesuits, with their international roots, played an important role.

Judge John O'Hagan was a Young Irelander, poet, educationist, and liberal scholar.

This account of the Irish Jesuits from 1695 to 1811 is concerned with those who lived and worked in Dublin and, in particular, with a central figure, the quite remarkable educationalist and pastor, Thomas Betagh.

Dom Eugene Boylan, was an Irish-born Trappist monk and writer who was born in 1904 and died in 1964. In the 1940s he published two books, This Tremendous Lover and Difficulties in Mental Prayer, which became international bestsellers and were translated into many languages.