Essay Galaxy - On The Left Side
On The Left Side
When a rich man donated some money to St. Finbar's, which is a
catholic church in Conn in Ireland, some of the money was spend on
electrical wall-heaters in the right half of the church and some of it was
spend on medical aid to the people of Burundi. A missionary, Philomena
O'Halloran, was sent to Burundi and to raise money to support her mission,
a special missionary box was mounted on the counter of the grocer's. At
Christmas after twenty years O'Halloran sent a young man to Conn as a
Christmas present. When the young man, Friday, arrived people were
surprised, for he looked like O'Halloran. Friday told that he was
O'Halloran's son, and the Catholics were terrified. On Christmas Eve during
the Christmas Mass everybody except from Friday sat in the right half of
the church. Bishop O'Rourke did not ....
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