Tag Archives: #Jesuits

Stonyhurst Memories

Posted on February 14, 2024 in the Blog category

Stonyhurst Memories by Jimmy Burns   Here follows some further Stonyhurst memories of my own prompted by my contemporary John Mulholland and his thoughtful memoir Ferulas and Thuribles– “Although we were all in it together, each individual journey was different.”     World Cup 1966 -my first year at Stonyhurst.   As I write in one of my football books , La Premier League ( published last year in Spanish , English version  due out towards  the end of this year)  I was  in London and recall going to the  Royal …

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Ferulas & Thuribles

Posted on February 13, 2024 in the Book Reviews category

My review of John Mulholland’s book ‘Ferulas & Thuribles.’ A worthwhile Stonyhurst memoir Memory may fail us, not least as we enter our twilight years, but as luminaries such as Marcel Proust and T.S Eliot recognised, we carry within us our past, and parts of it can resurface unconsciously, and take shape if mind and body allow us that extra mile in which to reflect and discern. As Eliot wrote in Little Gidding, this use of memory is for liberation-‘not least of love but expanding of love beyond desire , …

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Memory, Martyrs and Mission

Posted on May 8, 2018 in the Misc category

Rome may be full of enduring Christian relics, many of them well known and repeatedly visited by pilgrims,  but the temporary exhibition currently on show in the  crypt of the Venerable English College is a little publicized gem,  well worth visiting if only for a reminder of the enduring and rich legacy of  English Catholicism and the part played by Jesuits in its defense. But hurry, it send on May 11th, after a short run of less than a month..   Entitled ‘Memory, Martyrs, and Mission’, exhibits included a first …

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