Paddy Ferry writes: Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

I want to wish all our co-contributors and readers on our ACP site a Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

We have not gone home for St. Patrick’s Day this year so we have been sitting here in Edinburgh joining our parish congregation online in St. Mary’s, Kincasslagh for St. Patrick’s Day Mass.

I have mentioned on this site before how blessed we have been in Kincasslagh to have Fr. Pat Ward as our PP. Pat is a local lad from Aranmore Island and he has been such a blessing for the people of our parish in life and in death.

We spend so much time on this site complaining about the institutional church — and rightly so — but I think it is also important to acknowledge what is also good and Pat Ward symbolises that. A good priest can be such a positive influence and that is exactly what Pat is.

God bless him and all priests who strive to fulfil in a positive way their priestly vocation.

Paddy Ferry

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