Photo was taken last night in the Opera House, Cork (Irl)

Our photo is an action shot from the play ‘Whistle In The Dark’, which took place last night to a packed house in the Opera House. It was part of the many activities making up Cork’s Rebel Week, which runs all this week. The cast was made up of senior drama students from Col√°iste Choilm, Ballincollig. The play has been performed already in Coventry by the students and got great reviews in the media. Last nights outstanding performance is sure to make headlines again and no doubt will be one of the highlights of Rebel week.

Thought on Thursday – October – 17/10/2013

‘The Celtic approach to God opens up a world in which nothing is too common to be exalted and nothing is so exalted that it cannot be made common. So God meets us where we are, at home, at work, in the daily, in the ordinary.’ ~Esther de Waal

The generations who have gone before us built their lives around Celtic Spirituality. For them God was not some separate duty or event that happened occasionally. God was simply a part of their everyday lives, who they felt was with them through every experience of life. Every moment and opportunity was somehow connected to God. It was for example at this time of year that prayers of thanksgiving for the harvest would take place. The crops were harvested, stored and put away and the next most natural thing to do was to give thanks to God. Sadly as time went on religion became more formalised and structured. It didn’t happen overnight, but our sense of God in everyday events and moments just got pulled away.

Today there is an acknowledgment and an awareness of just how important it is to get back to the basics of our faith. Why complicate something that doesn’t need to be. Watch Jesus in the Gospels. He had no time for those who choked and killed the message by making it complicated and out of reach. It is time to begin reclaiming the beautiful simple message that it is.