Day of Atonement not a good idea

One must compliment Mr Christopher Heaphy on his courage and Fr O’Neill and Bishop Lee for allowing Mr Heaphy to speak at Mass (Irish Examiner, May 21).

Asking for a Day of Atonement may not be such a good idea.

The Jewish people had a scapegoat sent into the desert with their sins laid on him on Yom Kippur, their annual day of atonement. Jesus’s death on Calvary was an event of atonement, literally a day of at-one-ment, and the Mass is a daily renewal of that.