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2024

Summer School

In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year 'Pilgrims of Hope', 2024 has been designated a Year of Prayer by Pope Francis. For our Summer Scripture School this year, we explore some of the examples of prayer found in the Bible. The course will take place online, and in-person in Maynooth.

Holy Week & Easter

In this year's Holy Week & Easter Scripture Course, our three presenters will look at how the idea of salvation is presented in the Old Testament, the Gospel of John, and in the writings of St. Paul.

2023

Advent

The theme of this year's Advent course was "hope." Each speaker gave two presentations on hope in the Book of Esther (Jessie), the Letter to the Romans (Kieran), and the Gospel of Mark (Seán). 

Six Presentations

Passages Featured

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Summer School

The focus of the 2023 Summer School was "Unlocking the Bible: Keys for Understanding Today." We explored how one might read the Scriptures and to provide "keys" for encountering the Bible richly and responsibly, so that we may experience the Word of God as truly alive and active. 

Twelve Presentations

Passages Featured

Given the scope of this particular course, numerous texts are looked at rather than specific parts of biblical texts. However, the following are engaged with to some degree:

Holy Week & Easter

As we prepare to enter the mystery of Easter, Kieran, Seán and Jessie reflect on readings from the Easter Triduum.

Nine Presentations

2022

Advent

This short course focuses on the Gospel of Matthew as a preparation for the Gospel of the coming year. Join with us as we explore how it is that the theologian and storyteller Matthew helps these first hearers and now us to get to know Jesus.

Six Presentations

Passages Featured

Summer School

This theme of this course is walking the Synodal Pathway, exploring the call to mission in several texts throughout the Bible and how they might help as we journey towards the 2023 Synod.

Fifteen Presentations

Passages Featured

Lent & Easter

In this course, our presenters explore the portrayal of Jesus in Luke-Acts, focusing particularly on how the evangelist understood his ministry, death, and resurrection.

Nine Presentations

2021

Advent

In this course, our three presenters look at the theological importance of birth, Jesus's portrayal as the fulfillment of the scriptures and a new Davidic king, all the while rooting these explorations in the readings of the Advent liturgy.

Six Presentations

Passages Featured

Pentecost

Pentecost is the climax of the faith year and yet somehow it can feel under-celebrated. What could be more important than the gift and the call to bring the Good News to the whole world?

Three Presentations

Passages Featured

Summer School

In this course, Jessie, Seán and Kieran cast a wide net across a series of biblical texts to explore how the Bible's understanding of humanity "people of faith" grew and evolved throughout its history.

Fifteen Presentations

Passages Featured

Lent & Easter

In this Lent & Easter program, our three presenters will each reflect on biblical texts that are used in the liturgical celebration of Easter, specifically the Servant Songs of Isaiah, the Passion Narrative in the Gospel of John, and the teaching on Christ's death and resurrection in Romans 6.

Nine Presentations

Passages Featured

2020

Advent

In this course, Jessie, Seán and Kieran look respectively at praying the Psalms, staying vigilant in Mark, and learning from Philippians, aiming to provide a word of hope during the time of pandemic.

Three Presentations

Passages Featured

Summer School

In this course, Seán, Jessie and Kieran look at the Hebrew Prophets, Jesus in Matthew, and the Letters of Colossians & Ephsians respectively, exploring how they might have been understood in their time, and how they might offer a word of hope for us today.

Eighteen Presentations

Passages Featured

Courses By Topic

Old Testament

New Testament

The Pentateuch

Matthew

Historical Books

Mark

Wisdom & Psalms

Luke-Acts

Prophets

John

Deuterocanonical Books

Paul

Other Letters & Revelations