Photo was taken at the ‘Toys For Big Boys Show’ at the Showgrounds, Cork

Large crowds gathered for the ‘Toys For Big Boys Show’ over the weekend. One of the highlights was watching the pros ‘drifting’. They were able to turn the rally car at high speed, drifting, weaving, reversing and sliding in a confined space to the delight of the large crowds watching.

Thought on Sunday – November – 21/11/2010

The following reflection is by Fr.Tom Cahill

Bye, bye ‘ordinary’ time. Welcome cosmic. The Church’s liturgical year ends this week and with a bang by celebrating Jesus Christ as King of the Universe. And what a universe it is! Its sheer size, astonishing age and confounding complexity are beyond anything our minds can grasp. The more we see of it through the Very Large Telescope in Chile, or the Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, the more awesome it appears. From data obtained 22,000 light years distant, astronomers have lit upon a new class of star so colossal it shatters current theoretical limits as to how large a star can be. Then, last June in just one download of information the Kepler telescope doubled the number of known planets outside our solar system to 700. Just as scientists realise through their impressive discoveries how little they know compared to what can be known, so too should we as people of faith realise the same as far as our faith is concerned.

Dogmas don’t close doors. They ensure that the right doors are opened. The door to the cosmic Christ is clearly marked in today’s Second Reading (Col 1:12-20). There we have the risen Christ described as the one in whom all things in heaven and on earth were created, even these newly discovered colossal stars, and all things as yet undetected by human technology.There’s more to faith than morals. There’s the breathtaking, visionary, near cockeyed, mind-stretching promise of a fullness of life beyond death that no telescope could ever reveal. That’s what faith is for. Happy New Year!