Sunday's Gospel tells the familiar story of the good Samaritan and how the priest passes by without helping. It is an interesting story and with great relevance for our times.
How come that most of the manual work in Dominican priories is carried out by women. In these last days I was in a priory, a priory that has a large number of young men, and I observed a young woman cleaning the windows. Surely there is something odd in that?
Up to 40 years ago the non-ordained brothers polished the shoes of priests. So too did the sisters polish their shoes.
And maybe the mindset has not moved on too much in the intervening years.
Is it somehow or other bred into Irish priests that they may not dirty their hands? Is that why the priest passed the man in trouble, was he afraid to dirty his hands and clothes?
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Hi Michael, just noticed your blog and wanted to write to tell you that Denis Byrne who was on the Postgrad. in Journalism with us back in 1996/7 died back in February. The poor guy had a lot of health complications in recent years and died suddenly when undergoing an anaesthetic for an operation in the Mater Hospital in February (19th). June x
Perhaps the reason why the lady is cleaning is that she is employed to do so and to ask members of the community to take over this work might in fact be the cause of the lady in questioning loosing her job because her cleaning services are no longer required.
A pity you are anonymous. I don't think the Dominicans are in the business of an employment agency. I find it odd that priests can have women doing tough laborious jobs, especially when there seems, at least to me, always to be a whiff of misogyny in the clerical air.
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