Messenger Publications

These beautiful photographs display Fr Browne’s customary understanding of composition and offer a sympathetic insight into what was by then a fast-vanishing world. This is a priceless record of the Irish country house at a critical moment in its history.

These essays – deliberately kept short and to the point – explore the importance of synodality, how it can build ont he work of the Second Vatican Council, and how we can engage with it today. They are offered to our sisters and brothers in baptism in order to help us all on our journey of renewal as a pilgrim people.

This book is aimed at groups - communities, parishes, institutions, couples, teams, students, young adults, etc. - who wish to grow in communion and make decisions together. The book is based on a wealth of experience, shares numerous examples and provides a "toolbox" that has proved its worth.

‘Emerging from the Mess’ is essentially the experience of how suffering and pain alternates with great joy and fulfilment. Especially when we reach the limits of our strength and endurance, we need to remember to hang on, to be patient and faithful in prayer. This book’s challenge is to live every day like a resurrection day.

In this book the award-winning Belfast journalist and author reflects on a long career of reporting on many of the main events in Northern Ireland over the past sixty years and also on the aftermath of conflicts in many parts of the developing world including Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam and Rwanda.

This book uses the classic week-long “short form” of the Exercises, linking Ignatius’ famous contemplations with Francis’ call to a synodal, fraternal, and ecological conversion. It can be used as a companion guide for an individual or group retreat in a formal retreat setting under a director, or by a parish or community over a longer period.

As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic's ill fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ's photographs are an immensely important record. Father Browne also assembled material such as an original deck plan, menus, letters to him from fellow passengers, contemporary newspaper cuttings and other documents, many of which are reproduced here.

A short but fascinating biography of this most courageous and adventurous of saints. One of Ignatius of Loyola’s original companions, St Francis was central to the formation of the Society of Jesus.

By taking the Cross, particularly the words Jesus spoke while nailed to that Cross, in the lead up to Easter, we have time to deeply consider the inner themes and conclusions. This book will help to prepare for Holy Week, and prompt a mindset of deliberately slowing the pace of the contemplation of Christ’s words, especially those from the Cross.

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.