When our recent feature on this year’s Corpus Christi Procession with some 80 images appeared on www.millstreet.ie Mags Gargan, Lifestyle Editor with “The Irish Catholic” Newspaper emailed us and requested three of the 80 images for possible publication in this weekend’s Newspaper. Two of the three images have been used and how very surprised and indeed honoured we are to note that one of our pictures has featured on the front page! When I presented a copy to Brian of “Malpaso” (as it appears in the picture) there was a mightly cheer from all present. And Marie and John O’Leary were also wonderfully impressed when presented with their copy where their home looks equally attractive with its superbly uplifting colour scheme. On Page 10 of “The Irish Catholic” we note our image of the Millstreet Procession as it proceeds down Main Street returning to St. Patrick’s Church. And also featuring in the Newspaper – a very fine review of Joanne O’Riordan’s inspiring television documentary “No Limbs – No Limits”. We thank Mags for according Millstreet this rare honour of appearing on the front page of this weekend’s “Irish Catholic”. Click on the images to enlarge. (S.R.)
There has been such demand this weekend for “The Irish Catholic” which is usually available for sale in St. Patrick’s Church that it is now sold out. (Update: Pat Breen kindly acquired a further eight copies but these have now also been sold. ) Perhaps more copies may become available or one could also find copies in other churches or by directly contacting “The Irish Catholic” – full details available on the “Irish Catholic” website where our front page photo appears on its homepage:
And we now feature a further relevant section of the National Newspaper.
In the Summer Corpus Christi procession long ago in Millstreet Town
Young girls of the Convent school amongst others up to the Town Square from the West End slowly walked down
With the warm winds from the mountains in the balmy air
Willie Murphy on his public address system led the congregation in prayer
The young girls sang hymns as flower petals from their baskets they scattered around
On such a nice memory great beauty to be found
Dressed in their communion lace dresses almost white as snow
So youthful and innocent with the inner glow
They looked so angelic with white sandals on their feet
As their flower petals they kissed and then tossed them on the street
A beautiful memory that is with me today
Such a memory i retain though time has left me gray
Such beautiful sounds and mental images live on in the brain
And the flower girls of Millstreet i see them again.
‘The Flower Girls Of Millstreet’ is by Francis Duggan
http://francisrhymer.blogspot.ie/2014/07/the-flower-girls-of-millstreet.html
(mdc)