There must be nowhere in the world more beautiful than West Kerry when the sun shines. And it is shining today.
Fatima Home, a nursing home in Tralee under the care of the Dominican Sisters has gone on the market.
What a shame. My late father spent the last 18 months of his life in their care and it was another of the great blessings that he was afforded.
Fatima is a wonderful place and also a great resource. Any chance Irish Dominicans - men or women would take on the project. The Sisters who have been running the home are not members of an Irish congregation.
The Irish Dominicans have drawn up a draft manpower document. To this reader it is a baffling document which seems to say nothing. Surely before drawing up such a document a detailed study would be carried out on the current work being done by Irish Dominican men. Such a study has not been carried out.
The document is vague. And not meaning to be pedantic but 'presently' means in the immediate future and not 'at present' or 'now'.
What a project it would be for the Irish Dominican men to take on the challenge of keeping Fatima Home within the Order.
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You're correct in everything you say about the draft manpower document.
Are you suggesting an order of Priests would be able to run it as well as an order of Nuns
On the draft document, again may it be stressed that this is an appalling document. The paragraph on 'God' is a terrible arrogance and maybe mentioned in an attempt to obfuscate the paucity of any sort of thinking in the document.
But maybe this is not the forum for a discussion on the manpower document. On the other hand the fact that it is being posted to Dominican sisters and laity (that terrible word), means it is quasi public. But not quite.
The reference to Fatima. Of course the men would never do as good a job as the women. But anything to save the place would be positive. At this stage the Dominicans have next to nothing to do in the day-to-day running of the nursing home. Maybe the men could provide a presence and prevent it from becoming a commercial enterprise.
I also wrote what I wrote in anger at the general work ethic among so many Dominicans/priests.
And again, I refer to the anonymity. I believe it is one of the great plagues of the hierarchical church.
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