Last Sunday a Coastal Rosary campaign saw a community praying of the Rosary at coastal sites around Ireland. It was offered for the sanctity of human life (particularly the unborn) and the preservation of our Catholic Christian faith. Such a Rosary was prayed at St Naul’s Old Abbey in my parish of Ardaghey, Inver in Co Donegal. I was touched by the fact that they had a candle to represent me at the event. The church ruins date back to the endeavours of St Naul (+564) a Munster missionary who encountered St Colmcille at this spot adjacent to the Atlantic ocean.
Earlier this week I read a challenging commentary by Mgr Charles Pope on last Sunday’s gospel about Jesus’ encounter with the Rich Young Man: http://blog.adw.org/2021/10/what-does-heaven-cost-a-homily-for-the-28th-sunday-of-the-year-2/ The basic point made by the article is that we have to make a radical choice between living for this passing world or God’s eternal world; we have to travel on the Titanic or alternatively on Noah’s Ark / the Barque of Peter sponsored by the Lord.
The same message is expressed by the following music video referenced at the end of the article.
Fr Morty O'Shea 