Announcements

Faith & Witness Spring 2016 By St. Irenaeus Ministries in Faith & Witness 16 pages, published 5/27/2016 Our Spring 2016 issue celebrates the life of Mother Angelica, tackles topics like politics and the culture wars, and features an interview with Fr. Mike Mayer on evangelization. Also, check out a piece on C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters…

Announcing Our Spring Scripture Study:             Lessons from the Book of Esther In five sessions, beginning the week of April 12 So why should we study this curious book? And why now? This small book has been the subject of controversy since ancient times. It nearly didn’t make it into the Jewish canon of the…

Dear Friends, Here we are at the threshold of another Lent, and I’d like to share a few thoughts on making this Lent more profitable. In the past we have put out a general review, “A Few Thoughts on Making a Good Lent”, which is available to anyone who asks us. Today, however, I would…

We will soon begin a special short study, beginning the week after Thanksgiving. It will run only for the first two weeks of December. We offer it as an Advent meditation and in preparation for the Jubilee year. The great mercy of God in Christ is our subject. What a subject! In our study we will…

We will soon begin our fall Scripture study, ten weeks in the Book of Deuteronomy. We begin the week after Labor Day. Let me say that I am very excited about this particular offering and have long looked forward to the right time to present it. I know that many modern readers find this a…

Dear Friends of St. Irenaeus  (and St. Titus too): You are invited to join us on our patronal feast day for The Mass of St. Irenaeus Saturday, June 27th at 4:00 pm in Murphy Hall at St. John Fisher College Murphy Hall is across East Ave. ( 31f ) from the main campus. Fr. Mike…

Announcing our new spring Bible study! Beginning this Tuesday, April 28!   Unfortunately, our regular mailings are arriving late. So we are notifying everyone on our mailing list of our new study – a four week study in St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians. This should be a special study, one that is particularly appropriate…

The next Magnificat Rochester Women’s Breakfast will be held on May 30, 2015 and will feature the testimony of Monica Pierce. You can read more about the breakfast on their event page here or at magnificatrochester.org.

Lenten Bible Study for 2015 The Book of the Prophet Amos “God’s Call to Justice & Holiness” in five sessions This week we begin a new Bible study well-suited for Lent. We will be taking up the small but powerful Book of the Prophet Amos. In five sessions we are going to look at the…

This week we begin our new study, The Advent of Hope. This will be a study on God’s saving intention toward his creation. There will be five lessons, taking us up to Christmas: each lesson, we’ll focus in on scriptural witnesses to the unfolding of God’s plan. We’ll also be trying out a new format:…