Posted by Christopher Mc on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Under: Church
I was standing in sombre silence yesterday watching the Remembrance Day service from Westminster Abbey. I was thinking about Ekklesia's call for a more inclusive way of remembering. Perhaps there wouldn't be enough room to bring in everyone but how nice it would be if we could get someone to represent the Germans, Italians, French, Poles and Russians - someone perhaps who could speak all those languages, someone who could represent the Irish involvement in British wars.
And suddenly I see him, the eye half closed a little like Gordon Brown, just a few seats behind Queen Elizabeth, the next Bishop of Clogher, Donal McKeown, and I thought to myself, there is a point to auxiliary bishops after all.
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Catholic, Carmelite, Husband, Father, Reader of all sorts of books, Writer of occasional letters, Viewer of lots of TV and movies, Lover of tea, Hater of coffee. Anything I write is my own opionion and is not intended to represent the views of any organisation with which I have a connection. You can email me at "blog at live.ie" (replace the "at" with @). Don't be shy. To comment, click on the title of post. You have to include a name and email but fake ones work fine. Make sure there's an @ in the email.
