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CHURCH has been exposed to unprecedented media exposure in
recent months with the passing of Pope John Paul II and the
election of Pope Benedict XVI.  Amidst
all the emotional uplift we have all experienced we should
not forget that all of this has been built on the often unheralded
and often monotonous grind of the thousands of men and women
who have toiled at the coal face of civilisation in classrooms
without even the bare necessities and with people at the very
margins of sustainable existence. That's where the Christian
Brothers and those involved in the works of Blessed Edmund
Rice are to be found.
It is good for us to
celebrate in grandeur, and with these fabulous liturgies that
make our collective spirits soar, but we must not forget those
who make it all possible through those sacrifices that are
made day-in and day-out, year-in and year-out where Mass is
celebrated with a broken cup and grain that is ground with
a primitive mortar and pessel, and kneaded into bread with
cracked, parched hands in the backyard because people don't
have even a kitchen in the sense we use that word.
If this edition of Edmund
Rice Network News has a theme it is this: "join
us, the followers of Edmund Rice, in that challenging task
of feeding the hearts, feeding the minds, and feeding the
souls of God's most loved."
Brian Coyne
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