Webcam Broadcast C-19 21-5 Hello Everyone! I Hope You Are All Safe and Well
Webcam Broadcast C-19 21-5 Hello Everyone! I hope you are all safe and well. It’s Monday 8th February 2021. My basic Message this Monday is: One of great hope that - where proclaiming and living the Good News of the Gospel is concerned, the task is always bigger than the ones chosen for the task. But this is only part of the story. The Holy Spirit comes, as with the prophets, Mary, Jesus and the Saints, to equip. This also applies to each one of us today, and to our new Archbishop, Dermot Farrell. Our new Archbishop, Dermot Farrell, was installed last Tuesday in the Pro Cathedral in Dublin. Because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Liturgy was not open to the public. There was a minimum number of people in attendance, which included the now former Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and the Papal Nuncio Archbishop Jude Okolo. Everything else was at the minimum as well, such as music and participation. The Mass was live- streamed by Webcam on the Pro Cathedral Website. I ended up looking at in on my phone because I couldn’t get a connection on the computer. I’m glad I was able to tune in because the installation of a new Archbishop is no small thing. It’s 17 years since Diarmuid Martin became Archbishop, and our new Archbishop will be with us until he retires in less than 10 years time. The task Dermot Farrell is taking on is, to put it mildly, enormous. Where would he begin? Even before the Pandemic, the Church in Ireland and in Dublin has been, again to put it mildly, limping for quite some time, aided and abetted, as they say, by the scandals, and by the crisis of faith.
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