When we’d be passing Maynooth, I’d say, ‘I’m going to study there’.”When did he lose his vocation? And I knew he was upset because he was leaving his children and I remember going ‘I cannot cry. Don’t cry’, to protect myself and protect him but then I’d go upstairs and be upset . And I remember going up to him and saying, ‘Are you alright, man?’ and he said, ‘I can’t be upset and cry in front of people’. He’s going to another silent retreat in the new year.

Source: The Irish Times October 20, 2018 04:52 UTC