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“Nothing is more attractive than a disciple following the example of Jesus in his or her life, and a lot of that example was and remains counter-cultural. We must live by Jesus' different set of values, a life where "It isn't about me, it's about you," a life where there is something greater than the dollar or the status or the attention, a life worth sacrificing for the sake of others".

(Father James Forsen, director of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Office for Vocations).


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Irish Times Article Highlights Priesthood

Serving up a new vocation

Sean Corkery’s uncle was a chef and the young Cork man, fuelled by a passion for food, followed in his footsteps only to find that his true life path lay with the Church.

SEAN CORKERY’S grandmother used to give him £5 every time he made a fruit cake in order to encourage his love of cooking. Not that the aspiring chef from Mallow needed much in the way of encouragement having always had an interest and flair for baking.

Corkery (32) from Mourneabbey, Co Cork went down the route of training as a chef at Cork Institute of Technology in the 1990s after he completed his Leaving Certificate at Davis College in Mallow.

“My uncle was a chef and I used to bake for my gran. I don’t know what she did with all the fruit cakes. I did a bit of this and that in kitchens. Pot washing and so on. And then cooking. I did my diploma in professional cooking. I got out in the world and was having craic in kitchens and just loving every minute of it.”

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{by OLIVIA KELLEHER (Irish Times)}
 
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