“Prayer for Alignment” — by Fr. Sean O’Laoire
Here we pause to reflect silently on the ways in which we are unaligned as individuals and as communities.
A: I acknowledge to you, my sisters and my brothers
that I have been unaware of the God-in-all-beings.
“A Path Less Travelled” by Sean O’Laoire
I believe that we have to become serial killers in order to reach enlightenment. Firstly, we have to kill the ego, in the sense that it needs to be confined to its appropriate tasks (ensuring that I pay my taxes on time, stop at red lights and tie my shoe-laces) but not become my identity. Then I have to kill my father, by which I mean that I have to outgrow the cultural traditions into which I was born, and, instead, embrace a global identity.