Photo was taken at Oceanworld, Dingle, Co.Kerry (Irl)

The variety of fish on display in Oceanworld is impressive, not to mention all the colours, the different sizes of fish and even personalities!

Thought on Sunday – May – 20/05/2012

The following reflection is by Triona Doherty


‘Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours, no feet but yours;
yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion looks out on the world,
yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good
and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.’


These well-known words of Teresa of Avila give us a taste of how we can make Jesus present to others as we go about our daily lives. We are called to treat everyone we meet with the same love and compassion Jesus did – including those whom we find difficult, those who are alienated or marginalised, and those most in need of a kind word or deed. That is what Jesus did.


In today’s Gospel we hear the very last words of Jesus before he is taken up into heaven: ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation.’ With these words he hands over the responsibility for his mission to his disciples.
There is an immediacy to his instruction, and we don’t get the impression that the disciples hung around for any length of time; even as Jesus took his place at the right hand of God in heaven, the disciples are already going out, preaching and performing signs. Jesus could no longer be here, and he needed someone to carry on his work of spreading the Good News. The handover was instant, and the task urgent. It is just as urgent today.