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Documents related to retreats given by Jesuits which include sermons and novenas

File of documents related to retreats given by Jesuits which includes: ‘A short catechism for the instruction for those who are preparing to make their first Communion’- Addressed to Parents’ (12 January 1767); ‘A sermon on the duties of parents to their children (1803); ‘Analysis or General Notion of Discourse in various religious subjects’ (1806); ‘A discourse on the 2nd Precept of Charity’ (1 July 1809); ‘novena in preparation for the festival of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – chiefly taken from the Italian of Father Charles Borge’; scholars’ retreat (1839); ‘A sermon on the Love of God’.

Letter from Bishop of Meath, Matthew Gaffney to Irish Fr Provincial James F Murphy SJ

Letter from Bishop of Meath, Matthew Gaffney to Irish Fr Provincial James F Murphy SJ. Asks him to designate a priest to give the diocesan retreat in the following July if he (the Provincial) cannot do it. Includes note written by the Provincial stating that he promised that Fr [Reidy] would give the retreat if at all possible.

Gaffney; Matthew, 1839-1909, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath

Letter from David Moriarty, Bishop of Ardfert, to Dr Edmund O'Reilly SJ on the arrangements for a retreat for priests

Letter from Dr David Moriarty, Bishop of Ardfert, to Dr Edmund O'Reilly SJ. Informs him of the arrangements for a retreat for priests to be held near Killarney, to be facilitated by O'Reilly. Refers also to a synod to be held.

Moriarty, David, 1814-1877, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardfert

Letter from Dr James Lynch, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, to Fr Alfred Murphy SJ asking him to provide him two clerical retreats

Letter from Dr James Lynch, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, to Fr Alfred Murphy SJ. Asks the latter to provide him two clerical retreats in the following July. Advises him to get in touch with the president of Carlow College to arrange dates.

Lynch, James, 1807-1896, Roman Catholic bishop of Kildare and Leighlin

Letter from Dr John Healy, Archbishop of Tuam to Fr William Ronan SJ asking him the to organise a retreat for clergy in Loughrea

Letter from Dr John Healy, Archbishop of Tuam to Fr William Ronan SJ. Asks the latter to organise a retreat for clergy in Loughrea, and to send him two priests to conduct a retreat for the people of Portumna.

Healy, John, 1841-1918, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam and historian

Letter from Dr John Healy, Bishop of Clonfert, to Irish Fr Provincial hoping that a priests will conduct the annual clerical retreat at St Joseph's College, Ballinasloe

Letter from Dr. John Healy, Bishop of Clonfert, to Irish Fr Provincial. Hopes that the latter can provide him with one of his priests to conduct the annual clerical retreat at St Joseph's College, Ballinasloe.

Healy, John, 1841-1918, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam and historian

Letter from Dr Richard A. Sheehan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, to Irish Fr Provincial asking for one or more Jesuit priests to conduct clerical retreats

Letter from Dr Richard A. Sheehan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, to Irish Fr Provincial Fr Patrick Keating, Hopes that the latter can send one or more Jesuit priests to conduct the clerical retreats in his diocese. Asks specifically for Fr Cullen SJ.

Sheehan, Richard, 1845-1915, Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore

Letter from John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam, to Irish Fr Provincial Joseph Lentaigne SJ on Fr O'Reilly's retreat

Letter from John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam, to Irish Fr Provincial Joseph Lentaigne SJ. Refers to the latter's letter, which announced that Fr O’Reilly was being sent to MacHale’s diocese to conduct a retreat for the clergy on 20 August. Expresses his gratitude.

MacHale, John, 1791-1881, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam

Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters

Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning:

  • Polish scholastics coming to Ireland to study;
  • the censuring individual scholastics;
  • financial matters of the late Fr Henry Browne SJ;
  • the taking of villas during wartime;
  • a report on Irish theologians in Hong Kong;
  • the question of censorship of various publications (See also ADMN/3/1 and 23);
  • the question of Jesuit support for the Catholic Association for International Relations;
  • a proposal by Fr Patrick J Connolly SJ to open a Jesuit school in Dartry;
  • the Secret Instruction of the Holy See: Normae Quaedam De Agendi Ratione Confessariorum Circa VI Decalogi Praeceptum;
  • the prohibition of female characters in plays produced by scholastics;
  • comments on Director’s Service from Sodality reports of summer 1944 (See also ADMN/3/65 and 74);
  • the publication of a book entitled Selected Writings of Father Ledochowski (See also ADMN/3/44);
  • an invitation to the Irish Fr Provincial to the inauguration of President Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (see also ADMN/3/43 and 76) in June 1945, signed by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera;
  • relations with the Confederación Nacional de Congregaciones Marians;
  • the proposal to purchase Crawfordsburn Estate, County Down (see also ADMN/3/6);
  • the Chair of Education in University College, Dublin and
  • some suggestions about choirs in the Province.

Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters, including financial

Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning financial matters and;
– a complaint about an individual Jesuit with regard to his behaviour while conducting a retreat for nuns (See also ADMN/3/36);
– a draft deed of trust for the Father Delany Exhibition (See also ADMN/3/13);
– the health and financial affairs of various scholastics;
– the proposal for the establishment of a [school] at Tullabeg by the Society of Pious Missions;
– a conference of Jesuit Fathers in Chicago for the purpose of adopting a Provisional Constitution of the ‘Frequent Communion Guild’;
– requests for money from various individuals;
– the campaign to appoint a Catholic Director to the Board of Directors of the Clogher Valley Railway (the Society are shareholders in the Railway);
– the appointment of Jesuits to various offices;
– a petition to the British government ‘to show mercy to Roger Casement’;
– a proposed portrait of Archbishop Walsh by Sir John Lavery;
– a profit and loss account of the Irish Monthly for year ending 31 August 1914 (See also ADMN/3/20; 66; 67);
– the work of St. Joseph's Young Priests (See also ADMN/3/53);
– lists of locations of Retreats and names of priests giving Retreats for 1912 and 1913 (See also ADMN/3/36; 41);
– suggestions for Retreats given by Jesuits, by Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1896-1926) and memorandum on the scheme to establish a small lending library in Milltown Park for priests (See also ADMN/3/12; 38).

Note from Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, requesting a priest to conduct a retreat in the diocese of Kildare

Note from Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, to [Fr] Joseph. Requests him to procure the services of a priest to conduct a retreat in the diocese of Kildare at the end of the year. Expresses his preference for a Jesuit priest.

Foley, Patrick, 1858-1926, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin

Sermon, retreat notes, considerations (Catholic University, 1862), Triduum and retreats

File of handwritten sermon, retreat notes, considerations (Catholic University, 1862), Triduum and retreats. Includes long retreats at Cork (1860), Tullabeg (1861 - 1862; 1868 - 1871); Laval (1872 - 1875); Tronchiennes (1875 - 1877); Clongowes Wood College (1877) and meditations, attributed to the following Jesuits: Frs. Peter Kenney (Palmero), Aloysius Sturzo, Daniel Jones, Patrick Hughes, Charles Aylmer, John St. Leger, Robert St. Leger. Michael Kelly, Charles Plowden, John Cunningham, James Mullen, Alexander Kyan (with history of Kyan family), John Shine, Bartholomew Esmonde, Thomas Betagh, Patrick Bracken, P. O'Reilly, Stephen Farrell, Charles McKenna, Edmund O'Reilly, Pubrick.