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A Co Cavan priest has said that it will not be “dictated by a pagan and communist government” on how many people can attend Christmas ceremonies at his church.
Speaking ahead of Tuesday’s relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions to allow 50 people in the church, Father PJ Hughes, pastor of Mullahoran, said: “So what? What a thing.
“Who the hell do you think they’re giving us permission to have 50 people? They must take care of their own affairs and let us live our lives and let people be responsible for their own health. “
Father Hughes, who was warned that he could face legal process if he continued to violate the rules, said the government never mentioned Jesus when it announced the Covid-19 Christmas plan.
‘Essential services’
“It would stay in the throat of the Taoiseach if it mentioned Jesus,” Father Hughes said. “All he could talk about the other night was Mr. Fox and Roald Dahl. It’s no longer about Jesus. “
The priest, who will meet with his parish council this week to discuss Christmas plans, said he “no longer cared” if he was “condemned because I was practicing my faith.”
The Government previously decided that the churches were not “essential services”, said: “They do not recognize what I do as necessary, and what Jesus Christ did, coming to this world, as necessary.”
Authorities are “turning a blind eye” to the gaps of athletes and others, while children and parents “go from parish to parish to play soccer and football and pitch.”
Faith vs virus
Ministers must accept that “faith has a role to play in getting out of this virus,” he said. “They have denigrated God and I must say that the archbishops have let us down.
“They have not spoken or represented Christ, whom they signed up to represent. They are giving in to a government that, from my point of view, does not believe in God and does not understand what faith is about. “
The elderly who come to mass “are not stupid, they know they need God and they come to pray,” he said. “They do not come to talk to each other, they are not going to spread the virus. They barely open their mouths.
“When is the penny going to fall with these people with authority that Jesus is the messiah, and that they are not the messiah, that the CMO or the HSE or the Nphet is not the messiah?”
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