Meeting of the leaders of Spiritan Development Offices Kimmage Manor, 30th – 31st January 2020
The first-ever international meeting of the leaders of Spiritan Development Offices (SDOs) in Belgium, Ireland, Portugal and the USA was hosted by the Irish Province in Kimmage.
Author: - July 7, 2020
Spiritan who served in Nigeria in the 1960s re-visits former parishes
It was in Nigeria in 1966, the year after his ordination, that Michael Walsh C.S.Sp., (pictured) began his long service to date as a missionary priest. He first arrived in the west African country not long before the beginning of its civil war, known to many as ‘The Biafran War’. After leaving Nigeria, he was one of a group of Irish Spiritans who moved to open up the congregation’s first-ever mission in Zambia in 1971 and he continues to serve in the southern African country to this day.
Author: - July 6, 2020
Christmas 2019 in Ireland – Locky Flanagan C.S.Sp.*
2019 is one of my the few Christmases that I will have spent at home since I first went on overseas mission in 1980. I’m particularly looking forward to the privilege of hearing confessions and saying the Christmas Eve Vigil Mass at Cuan Mhuire, a home where addicts are treated.
Author: - July 5, 2020
Rotu in East Pokot region, Kenya – December 2019
The Spiritans are in East Pokot since the 1980s. After much preparatory work, a permanent mission began in Rotu in 2011 when I moved to this very under-developed and inaccessible part of the region.
Author: - May 3, 2020
