Reflections from Belfast on the opportunity of Ash Wednesday: "Lent is less for giving up, and more for making space."
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Reflections from Belfast on the opportunity of Ash Wednesday: "Lent is less for giving up, and more for making space."
Reflections from Belfast on the opportunity of Ash Wednesday: "Lent is less for giving up, and more for making space."
Reflections from Belfast on the opportunity of Ash Wednesday: "Lent is less for giving up, and more for making space."
A sign hangs on the wall of a Taizé community in Burgundy, France. (photo: forteller/Flickr, cc by-nc-sa 2.0)
by Pádraig Ó Tuama, guest contributor
Last year, while working with a primary school class here in Belfast, a child said:
“Pádraig, let me ask you a question. God loves us right?”
Avoiding the complexity of anthropomorphic projections of human experiences onto God, I answered, from the heart of me, with what I hope.
“Yes,” I said.
“And God made us all didn’t he?” she continued.
I avoided discussions of “made” and “He” and said:
“Yes.”
“Tell me this,” she said, “why did God make Protestants?”
