Last week the Franciscans celebrated their last mass in Limerick at their Henry Street Church, after more than seven hundred years of service to the community. The last time I walked through the Gorbals, my parents' and grandparents' parish church, St. Francis, was closed. What a haven that was for the Irish, their own little ghetto, where they could rely upon being left alone to enjoy each other. Just one of many signs.
You walk through Dublin now and you won't see that many people blessing themselves when they pass a church. If you go to mass on a Sunday, it could be a Nigerian priest, who has come to Ireland as a missionary. What a change! Just as a priest friend in Scotland prophesied to me not that many years ago.
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