‘St Patrick’s Day is asking us directly if we have the energy, the nerve, the sense of community to commit to harvesting,’ Archbishop Michael Jackson said at the annual Blessing of the Shamrock at DIT Grangegorman. He said the question was live both in the church and in the society where the values of community and compassion were all too often sacrificed to an ethic of commodification and individualism.
The annual ceremony took place yesterday (Thursday March 15) in St Laurence’s Chapel on DIT’s Grangegorman Campus and was organised by the Chaplaincy Team. Presiding with Archbishop Jackson was Monsignor…
