Sir, - Breda O'Brien tells us (Opinion, July 26th) that "the significance of both the Glenstal [prayer] book and the visit of the [St ThΘrΦse] relics is that people mainly female are hungry for an experience of prayer."
Maybe the hunger parallels the economic one which fuels Lotto demand weekly - that is, it owes more to quick-fix miracle-seeking than to hard graft for getting results in normal ways. The latter means, in relation to religion, accepting that fear of Satan is the beginning of wisdom, and heeding what the 600-page Catholic Catechism prescribes to "deliver us from evil".
There is a place for economic and religious miracle-seeking. But, without hard graft also, both our economy and our religion rest on rather flimsy foundations. - Yours, etc.,
Joe Foyle, Sandford Road, Dublin 6.