Last weekend was really rather more hectic than we expected. Our entire family group in Scotland decanted to Dublin for Scott and Jill’s wedding – I did the honours in Rathfarnham Parish Church where Alison and I were married. Homilies at weddings always seem to me to particularly difficult. So this was my latest attempt at the genre
On to St Paul’s, Lisburn, for the Ordination of Stephen McWhirter to the priesthood. Coincidentally this is where I was made Deacon back in 1976 and I hadn’t been back in the interim. Steve was a lay worker in Seagoe when I moved to Scotland and it was good to be with him for the latest stage in his vocational journey. This was the sermon