Heavenly condition may not be too evident, but it’s still attainable

WITH St Patrick’s Day just behind us and Easter fast approaching, it’s worth considering how we celebrate these festivals and what that says about the state we are in.

That most controversial of commentators, St Paul, claimed the three things that really matter to Christians are faith, hope and love.

Love is the greatest, he says in chapter 13 of his letter to the people at Corinth, a passage often used in wedding liturgies and famously read by Tony Blair at Princess Diana's funeral: "I may speak with every tongue that men and angels use: yet, if I lack charity, I am no better than echoing bronze, or the clash of cymbals