Letter to the Editor: A time and a place for pontification

(Editor, Meath Chronicle)

Dear sir – I had occasion to attend an anniversary Mass at a parish church in recent weeks.

It was a nice gathering, socially-distanced at the Sunday mid-morning Mass, with a mix of young, older, and in-between folks, and a delightful choir.

Then, the celebrant (for celebrations these occasions are meant to be – of the man above, and the person departed, and all of us there) decided to wander off to discuss things like the Eighth Amendment and assisted suicide.

And you wonder, do these priests get it at all? Do they think we – or that the young children in the congregation – go along on a Sunday morning to listen to this lecturing and sermonising. That maybe they could celebrate the sacraments without preaching and pontificating.

No wonder there was no problem organising social distancing.

Yours,

Jack Murphy,

Trim.