‘Going Home’
I am expecting to go home next week and I am looking forward to it. Like everything during this coronavirus pandemic, apprehensive about it. From our days in the seminary, a very helpful idea that has stayed with me. These things are a) life is a journey; b) telling our story on this journey. As in any journey life has its beginning and an ending. A very important emphasis in the seminary was preparation for the end of that journey. I know there is very much more to life than can be captured by these two images, as highlighted by the virus for the last two years, with life really stalled.
At St George’s church on Tuesday we had a very memorable Requiem Mass for Edna Andrews RIP. She was 98 years old, so close to her 100th birthday. It would have been lovely to celebrate this, but it would be second to the celebration of her Requiem Mass. The celebration of this mass brings home to us profoundly “Our true home is in heaven and that is where we are going”. Thanks be to God. Growing up in Ireland, this felt very real to us, and with the wake house made a huge contribution to a life of faith.
Please God, faith will continue to contribute greatly to our lives in the future.