Archbishop Diarmuid Martin visits DCU

Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, DCU President pictured with Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin
Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin celebrated mass in the Interfaith Centre, DCU, on Wednesday 25 February. Fr Joe Jones, Fr John Gilligan, Rev John Marchant, Fr Bonaventura Kamuli and Fr Damien McNiece, Master of Ceremonies to the Archbishop, also joined the Archbishop in the service.
 
During the homily the Archbishop said ‘Let Lent be a moment in which each of us looks at the values which govern our lives today and the values which we would wish to see incarnated into the world, the society and the economy of tomorrow.  There is no doubt that those values will be counter-cultural and to be counter-cultural requires integrity and courage.  But the opposite to being counter-cultural is being conformist, and being conformist can quickly lead to being complacent and loosing the sharpness and critical sense which should come from our faith.  Lent offers the opportunity through prayer, penance and works of mercy to take away the mask that we create around ourselves and to walk the path of integrity and courage.’

There was standing room only in the Interfaith Centre as both staff and students came along to the service.