Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the death of Flannan Hynes. He died in Montevideo in 2019.
Flannan held many positions in the Dominican Order, including eight years as provincial of the Irish province.
He was disciplined, one might even call him an ascetic person.
We all praise those we like and admire and of course we are all biased.
Flannan was a kind and considerate person. He was provincial when I made my solemn vows and ordained a priest. It was Flannan, who gave me my first two assignations, to San Clemente in Rome and St Mary’s Pope’s Quay in Cork.
His younger brother Paul, also a Dominican, predeceased him by many years.
In 1972 Paul told young Dominicans that they should celebrate baptisms, weddings and funerals in a proper, dignified, sensible and prayerful manner because is would be the only time that they will be inside a church.
A man ahed of his time.
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