Photo was taken yesterday on the Butter Road, near Millstreet, Co.Cork (Irl)

There are some days when you just wouldn’t want to be in a rush! Well these sheep were in no rush whatsoever as they made their way along the Butter Road.

Thought on Sunday – June – 07/06/2015

Thought For Today is by Triona Doherty

Dublin has become the latest city to acquire a ‘Homeless Jesus’ statue. The sculpture, created by Canadian artist Tim Schmalz, depicts Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench. The face of the blanketed figure is obscured, but nail marks on his feet reveal his identity.

‘Homeless Jesus’ appears to have been presented to Dublin by an anonymous North American benefactor, who is also giving copies to 11 other European cities, including the Vatican. The chosen location in Dublin was the grounds of Christ Church Cathedral, though a competition run by The Irish Times found that readers favoured Molesworth Street at a location near where homeless man Jonathan Corrie died.



Speaking about the work, Schmalz said: ‘Jesus did not say “love the wealthy”. His ministry was to the suffering and the poor. The heart of Christianity is to love the broken people, and this is where you find Jesus.

‘Really, it’s a visual translation of Matthew 25, where Jesus says that whenever you see the most marginalised, broken people in our society, we should think of him.’

In today’s Gospel for the feast of Corpus Christi, Jesus talks about his body that will be broken and his blood that will poured out. It is this ‘broken’ Jesus that we meet in the Eucharist, and who meets us in our own broken state. It is this broken Jesus who is present in all of us, and who challenges us to love the broken people we meet.