of this healing and renewal process. Celebration of the Eucharist over, the work should begin in earnest to see this process taking place all over your beatiful country once such a solid and genuine  witness to the Catholic faith. Nat_ons There are indeed signs of renewal in spirit, or at least of long overdue restoration of orthodoxy -- not quite the same thing. Sadly the Eucharistic Congress, as portrayed by the church to RTE .. and hence the world .. is really the same old same old 'spirit of Vatican II' excuse for hippy-hippy-shake make-it-up-as-you-go-alone me-centred-worship i.e. the Age of Aquarius (wearing a soutane). So, while the press suggest that a tiny (and skewed) poll of 1000 voters do not believe in 'transubstantiation' but in a vague transformation sic or the symbol of a spiritual change at the Eucharist .. not the Sacrament of Christ's Thanksgiving sacrifice, changed according to his word, in reality, substance and truth .. not one word of teaching on the Faith is delivered; only the message that 'we are not a threat to libertine modernism', 'we are not triumphalistic reactionaries', 'we are not anti-D-I-Y, protestantising, oecumenical pantheism' comes across .. in public. The reality of spiritual renewal in faith, substantial restoration of orthodox practice, and a true rejection of the Age of Aquarius is at work .. even with grudging episcopal approval. At the moment it is locked in a dark corner marked 'heritage: only for occasional show (if absolutely necessary)'. Still, there is hope,