10/04/1974,
Christmas and Easter are occasions of feasting for Fijian extended families. Whole pigs, chickens and root crops are cooked in earth ovens. A long table cloth is spread the length of the house or verandah with places set on both sides. The owner of the house or the guest of honor sits at the top and others squat in their appropriate places according to the hierarchy of the extended family.
Three or four of us Columban priests were invited to participate in the Easter feast of a parishioner family. They lived at the edge of the parish down a steep incline. We parked above and walked carefully down the slope.
Fr Ed Quinn, a fine handsome man with deep blue eyes, was walking ahead of me and there were two ladies behind me. I was startled to overhear one of the ladies say to her companion, “If Fr Quinn wasn’t a priest, I would go for him!”
Not the sentiments I was expecting on Easter Day!
by Fr. Frank Hoare
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