tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post9040517307011246785..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: A Glimpse of Pope FrancisMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-35184316893983080412018-08-26T09:07:31.840-07:002018-08-26T09:07:31.840-07:00It couldn't be as big as the last one because ...It couldn't be as big as the last one because of health and safety regulations, anyway.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-20619162614833748182018-08-26T03:54:21.183-07:002018-08-26T03:54:21.183-07:00I'm glad.
An Australian reporter tonight comme...I'm glad.<br />An Australian reporter tonight commented that, although the numbers weren't as big as '79, today's Mass is still possibly the largest gathering of any sort in Europe this year. Séamusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-33886750697577973012018-08-26T01:13:36.635-07:002018-08-26T01:13:36.635-07:00There certainly is! It makes me think of Bognor Re...There certainly is! It makes me think of Bognor Regis changing its name because the King used to holiday there. Ballymun hasn't got much of a history (it was farmland until the sixties) but one of the things often mentioned is King William passing through it on his way to the Battle of the Boyne. How long ago was that? So it seems like a big deal indeed that the Pope should pass through.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-78403211084520076362018-08-25T14:35:30.527-07:002018-08-25T14:35:30.527-07:00Very exciting! Am really glad for you. And I can...Very exciting! Am really glad for you. And I can quite understand the significance of his passing through your home town. There's a funny sensation when something like that happens — it is as if you hadn't realised that other people knew your town existed!<br /><br />Coincidentally, I've only just this evening discovered that when St JP II came to Britain in 1982, he passed by train only about a mile from where I live. Not quite the immediacy you experienced, but there is a power in things being made personal in that way.Dominic Nhttp://some-definite-service.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com