00:01:33 | Oct 29, 2009
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From the Director - Our sacrifice is to live hopefully and humanly
This year I celebrated my 40th anniversary of ordination. I was ordained in 1969 during those confident and energetic times. Vatican II had only just finished and we were excited and optimistic about the changes it was bringing. I was young, idealistic and ready, if not to save the world, to at least make a significant contribution. Like my classmates I was prepared to make all kinds of sacrifices for the “splendid cause” to which we had committed ourselves. I remember in those days the most popular verse for ordination cards was the quote from Philippians chapter two, about Jesus, although his nature was divine he took on human nature and became a servant even unto death on a cross. We too felt we were ready for big sacrifices, but what we didn’t expect was that our sacrifices would be far more ordinary and human. (more)
Fr Noel Connolly
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