Photo was taken Saturday night in Páirc Uí Rinn, Cork (Irl)

Millstreet celebrate in style after winning the Cork County Junior A Football Final beating St Finbarr’s 1-9 to 1-8. A massive victory parade and walk through the town happened at 10.30pm long Saturday night. It looks like the celebrations will continue for many days to come!


Today is a Bank Holiday Monday in Ireland. Website update tomorrow!

Thought on Monday – October – 27/10/2014

Thought For Today is by Triona Doherty called ‘Selfless Saints’


Various figures down through the ages have become synonymous with selfless love – Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Oscar Romero, St Damian of Molokai, St Don Bosco, St Maximilian Kolbe, the list goes on. They were people who gave up everything to help others, often suffering greatly themselves in the process. They were those rare human beings who truly lived out the familiar, yet challenging instruction to ‘love your neighbour as yourself’.

I recently came across the story of St Josephine Margaret Bakhita of Sudan, who was kidnapped as a young woman and spent many years as a slave. Asked once ‘What would you do, if you were to meet your captors?’, she responded: ‘If I were to meet those who kidnapped me, and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands. For, if these things had not happened, I would not have been a Christian and a religious today.’ During illness in her later years, when a visitor would ask how she was, she would reply ‘As the Master desires’. Her words display a deep understanding of the two greatest commandments, to love God with all your heart, and to love your neighbour as yourself.

The God who speaks in today’s First Reading is a God ‘full of pity’ who hears the cry of the poor and vulnerable. Many of the saints down through the ages echoed this love in their service of others. Reading about the lives of the saints might no longer be fashionable, but there is so much we can learn.