The Treasure of Knock - By Fr. Patrick Cahill

So dear brothers and sisters, today is the feast of Our Lady of Knock, and maybe it's because we're Irish, but we often downplay the beauty of Ireland, or we often downplay how great it is to be Irish, and the good things about our country.

I think similarly, we kind of downplay the apparitions in Knock.

In fact, if you travel around the country, you'll see all sorts of grottoes at roundabouts and crossroads of Lourdes and of Fatima, but none of Knock.

Now maybe because to have Our Lady of Knock and St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist and an altar and a lamb and 15 witnesses.

It's a lot of statues maybe, but you wouldn't necessarily have to have the whole 15 witnesses.

But yeah, for some reason, even in churches, you rarely, rarely find a statue of Our Lady of Knock.

So I think it's a treasure, an undiscovered treasure, even though it all happened in 1879, so quite some time ago.