How to have faith in your football team

The story about the American High School football coach who brought his team to church during a school trip, and had nearly half of them baptized, reminds me of a story about the father of a friend of mine in Ireland. He too coached a junior football team, who played on a Sunday morning, and he regularly brought them to church to attend Mass on the day of their matches.

When the Mass schedules did not fit in with the football schedules, he devised an improvisation. He would bring the boys to an early Mass, they would leave halfway through the Mass to play their football match, then he would bring them back to church to catch the second half of a later Mass.

Whatever your views about him bringing the children to Mass, you’ve got to admire his ingenuity.

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