Priest warns: Don’t degrade your body

IN delivering his Corpus Christi sermon yesterday, Roman Catholic priest Fr Wally Patrick Brenan lashed out at persons who “show contempt for the human body.”  Fr Brenan delivered the fiery sermon before hundreds of Catholic devotees who gathered for the 8 am Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Harris Promenade, San Fernando. Fr Brenan told the congregation that, “The physical human body is holy,” lamenting however, that,  “...today it is treated with degradation through violence, murder, rape and domestic violence.”  Fr Brenan also condemned the degradation of young children by adults for the sole purpose of “having pleasure. “He was also critical of the way people “use and abuse each other.” He reminded the congregation that “our relationship with Jesus is not only spiritual but physical.” Like so many of their counterparts throughout the country, Roman Catholic devotees in the south, participated in Corpus Christi celebrations yesterday with a procession along the streets of the southern city which came after the Mass. And like celebrations in years past, the youth played a prominent role in the procession with many youngsters singing hymns of praise as they walked alongside their parents and friends. In sharp contrst, elsewhere in the southland, especially in Fyzabad and Avocat, marches were being held in commemoration of Labour Day celebrations, which this year fell on the same day as Corpus Christi.