When you build something, do it right. Solid, lasting.

Buildings as well as organisations or relationships.

Right?

Wrong!

Solid buildings remind me of bunkers. Dark spaces.

The Pope, or someone on behalf of the Pope, chose Leonard’s  “Anthem” for his arrival in Dublin’s Croke Park.

There’s a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in“, wrote Leonard.

Today, during mass, a priest referred to this and said that we, the Church, were the light.

Wrong again.

There is enough light. But there ain’t enough cracks.

To open up the bunkers.

Tomorrow is our last day, we’ll be leaving Lourdes very early on Wednesday morning. I am sure Pádraig will be missing Lourdes, the friendship and company.

It’s off to the baths tomorrow morning!