MICHAEL: I've done one or two decent things in my life, Peter,
I really have, but I never flash back to them.
She's dying!
She can't be left alone overnight.
-The body of Christ. -Amen.
ROZ: Bye, Michael.
I'm gonna pay it all back. Every penny.
The machines in Saint Nick's are nothing like those in your shops.
Ours take 10-pence coins, yours take 10-pound notes.
If he doesn't watch my back,
then why should I watch his?
Why should anyone watch his?
Blinded and killed, Dawn.
White officer kills black boy on your watch
and you're not over the detail?
The officer who used the spray
said she did so because she feared for Miss Oyenusi's safety.
That's not true.
They're gonna lie.
# Broken windows and empty hallways
# A pale, dead moon in a sky Streaked with grey
# Human kindness is overflowing
# And I think it's gonna rain today #
This psalm, please.
Just this once, yeah?
MICHAEL: For on the night He was betrayed,
He himself took bread
and, giving you thanks,
He said the blessing,
broke the bread
and gave it to His disciples, saying,
"Take this, all of you,
"and eat of it,
"for this is my body
"which will be given up for you."
(BELL RINGS)
MICHAEL'S MOTHER: You little horror!
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
In a similar way,
when supper was ended,
He took the chalice and giving You thanks,
He said the blessing
and gave the chalice to His disciples, saying,
"Take this,
"all of you,
"and drink of it."
PRIEST: A reading from the Holy Gospel...
-(CLATTERING) -(SOFTLY) Shit.
PRIEST: Six days later, Jesus...
"The blood..."
You got something to say for yourself, huh?
"Of the new and eternal covenant..."
WOMAN: What?
"Which will be poured out for you
"and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
"Do this in memory of me."
(BELL RINGS)
(DOOR SHUTS)
(VIDEO GAME MUSIC PLAYING)
Oh, no.
CHLOE: Father Michael.
Hello, Chloe.
Hi, Father.
How are you?
Fine.
The boys?
CHLOE: Fine.
MICHAEL: Leo's missed a lot of school.
-Has he? -Yeah.
I'll talk to him.
I could murder a cup of tea.
Oh, it's a bit inconvenient right now, Father.
Look, Chloe, your mam asked me to keep an eye on you.
I'm going nowhere.
Hey, Leo, Jake.
How are you doing for money?
Mum had pension or insurance or something through work.
It starts Friday.
Till then?
Well, shall we make a start on this?
And I'll, er, I'll get you vouchers for the food bank.
Hey, get there tomorrow, they got pizzas.
(MUFFLED WHIRRING)
(VACUUM WHIRRING)
CORONER: I have two things to say to you, members of the jury.
First, you'll remember that we opened and adjourned this inquest
pending the findings
of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
The Commission has decided that no action should be taken
against any officer involved in this case
and so this inquest can now resume.
Second, I'll introduce the various interested parties to you.
Starting on my left, we have
Mr Lambert, representing Patricia Greaves
of the North West Mental Health Foundation Trust.
Mr Marsh, representing Rebecca Milton
of the North West Mental Health Foundation Trust.
Miss Hennessy, representing Pamela Winderton
of the North West Mental Health Foundation Trust.
Mr Fogarty, representing Elaine Cosgrove
of the North West Mental Health Foundation Trust.
Mrs Ofoeme, representing PC Andrew Powell
of the Low Marsh Police Force.
Mr Wright, representing PC Dawn Morris
of the Low Marsh Police Force,
Mr Lloyd, representing Police Sergeant Denis Kilcaid
of the Low Marsh Police Force.
And Mr Newton, representing PC Ian Wakefield
of the Low Marsh Police Force.
And over here, we have Mrs Helen Oyenusi, representing herself.
But Eastbrook wasn't all bad.
There was Saint Nick's.
And Father Michael.
He and Vernon got on well.
And I was so grateful for that because...
he wouldn't take his medication, you see,
unless he trusted you.
But the sicker he got, the less he trusted you.
The sicker he got, the more he needed the medicine,
the less chance of him ever taking it.
But Father Michael always managed to persuade him.
Always.
Had Father Michael been around that night,
Vernon would still be alive,
I know it.
I am black,
a Christian and a mother.
I should, therefore, forgive everyone involved in the death of my son
and astonish you all with the strength of my faith.
I will not play that game.
I will not forgive people who have not asked to be forgiven.
I will not forgive people who lied to the IPCC
and will no doubt lie to this inquest.
First, give me truth and justice
and I will think about forgiveness.
CORONER: Is there anything else you'd like to say?
Anything you think might be relevant to this inquest?
No, Sir.
CORONER: Thank you, Mrs Oyenusi.
I think we'll leave it there for today and meet tomorrow at 10:00.
(CHATTER)
I'm sorry, I, er, should've warned you, Chloe.
(SOBS SOFTLY)
(VOICE BREAKING) Could you lend me 20 quid please?
Till Friday.
JEAN: Anything up to 200 quid goes in the safe,
anything over 200 quid goes to the bank.
She gets it the following afternoon...
(CHLOE SCREAMS)
-JEAN: Jesus Christ! -(CHLOE GRUNTS)
JEAN: Fucking hell!
Right, just go back...
Er... Er...
-(GLASS SHATTERS) -(MOBILE PHONE RINGING)
Hello, Michael Kerrigan.
Oh.
PC KNOX: Did you lose money on them?
Could she have done?
Manager says he's never seen her, so...
What's your name?
Excuse me.
Your first name, then?
May I?
MICHAEL: May I tell them?
Her name's Chloe Demichelis.
Her mother was Roz Demichelis.
She lost a lot of money on these machines
and, er, she took her own life.
Why'd you close?
-I thought it was for the best. -Oh, fuck.
-What's wrong? -Sciatica.
They're just machines, Chloe.
HARRY: Expensive machines, yeah,
but they're just machines and machines are replaceable.
People are not.
I was really saddened to hear about your mother, Chloe,
and you have all my sympathy, my love.
Now, I'm not saying we didn't profit from her losses,
because we did,
but others profited a hell of a lot more
and you can't say that if we'd refused her custom,
it would have made any difference,
'cause it wouldn't, Chloe, my love, it wouldn't.
I was wondering, Officer, if it's all right
to just forget this ever happened, if that's, er, possible at all?
I'm sure it is.
You see, I lost my mother, too, Chloe, when I was very young.
It was natural causes, so a lot less, erm...
Well, there are no words are there?
No words to describe what you've been through
so we'll just leave it at that,
a lot less.
So I understand why you've done this, Chloe.
I understand it,
I forgive it.
It's forgotten.
We're full but we need to find a bed from somewhere.
We're a small unit
and we know everybody in our care
and we don't want to send anybody home.
SENIOR CASE WORKER: So my first response was to say no.
So what if a young man's desperately ill?
He's not one of ours. We don't know him,
we don't have to see his suffering, so say no.
But that'd be cowardly and immoral.
We need to make a decision
and there are... There are three possibilities.
I lied to Helen,
when I said that Vernon was the least unwell.
He was one of the least unwell.
But he was certainly the most loved.
Helen had shown herself to be a wonderful, loving mother
and who could come to any harm going home to a mother such as that?
That's why we picked Vernon,
because he was so loved.
JEAN: The noise is gonna drive you mad, though, Ryan.
I mean, it's all right when the racing's on, it drowns it.
But no racing, and it gets to you.
JEAN: (SIGHS) And when somebody wins...
(SCREAMS)
Oi, you stupid bitch!
Aitch. She's at it again.
HARRY: Fucking hell!
Oh.
Right!
It's a few home truths for you, sweetheart.
Lots of people enjoy these machines.
Yeah, okay, a few sad bastards like your mother get addicted
but that don't mean you ban them.
You don't ban booze 'cause of a few pissheads, do you?
So you don't ban these
'cause of a few headcases like your bleeding mother.
And what are you bringing her tea for?
-Look at her. -She's just destroyed
four brand-new machines!
She needs it.
So she burns the shop down,
what're you gonna do, invite her to dinner?
Jesus!
I know what you want, sweetheart,
and you're not gonna get it.
I am not calling the police
so you can go all drama queen on us.
I'm calling a lawyer.
And he'll take out a restraining order on you
banning you from all of my shops.
So next time you do your chain-gang thing,
you'll go straight to prison
'cause it's not criminal damage any more, it's contempt of court.
Contempt of court means straight to prison
'cause you're not upsetting little old me,
you're upset a High Court fucking judge.
God bless.
MICHAEL: Will you promise not to do it again?
What he said was right, contempt of court, you'd go to prison.
It'll be with you all your life.
It'll stop you getting jobs.
Look,
if I swore to you I'll get him, this bookie,
will you promise you'll keep away from those machines?
Are you supposed to say things like that?
No.
Sunday. Ten o'clock Mass.
Okay.
Come and see it if you like.
Okay.
-Would you? -Do you want a hand?
Yeah.
Here.
MICHAEL: The Lord be with you.
CONGREGATION: And also with you.
MICHAEL: A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
ALL: Glory to you, O Lord.
MICHAEL: "And Jesus entered the Temple of God
"and cast out all those
"who were buying and selling in the temple
"and he overturned the tables of the money changers
"and the seats of those who sold the doves."
And he said to them, "It is written,
"'My house shall be called a house of prayer,'
"'but you have made it a den of thieves.'"
The Gospel of the Lord.
ALL: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
MICHAEL: I love that passage,
Christ driving the money changers out of the temple.
In John's version, he drives them out with a whip,
even better.
I like it because it... It shows Christ's humanity.
Even he was prone to anger.
Righteous anger.
As Christians, we're meant to try and emulate Christ.
Are we allowed to emulate that bit?
Are we allowed a bit of righteous anger?
I hope so.
There's a young woman here today,
Chloe,
whose mother took her own life very recently.
She got addicted to those machines in the betting shop
and she stole from her employer
and she couldn't live with her shame.
Does that not make you angry?
Those machines take up to £100 per spin
and they spin three times a minute.
Ten times faster than the fastest croupier on the planet.
So fast in fact that, if you walked in there with £1,000,
you'd be skint in less than ten minutes.
Nobody walks in with £1,000, of course,
because these machines are in our poorest areas.
16 in Hall Cross Road.
Why is that?
Because if you've only got a fiver to last you the rest of the week,
it makes eminent sense to gamble it.
So 16 machines in Hall Cross Road,
all feeding off our poverty.
Does that not make you angry?
And these machines, well, they're a capitalist's dream.
They don't need food or shelter.
They don't need wages.
You just buy them and line them up against the wall
and off they go, sucking up our money.
Our money.
Money from one of the poorest communities in Western Europe
given to shareholders living in the rich South East.
Does that not make you angry?
But these are just machines.
Christ, in righteous anger,
took a whip to human beings.
If we, in righteous anger, took a hammer to those machines,
would we be condemned or applauded?
(APPLAUSE)
DENIS: I didn't volunteer for armed response,
they asked me to join.
I went away and thought about it for days
and went back and said yes.
And I didn't do it for the kudos
because no one, apart from a chosen few, ever knew I was in it.
And I didn't do it because I relished the prospect of shooting someone,
I honestly hoped it would never come to that.
They asked me if I was sure I could do it,
shoot someone.
I said I would only know that if and when it came to it
and anyone who told you different
was a fool and shouldn't be in armed response in the first place.
And now I know of course, I could do it.
PC Andrew Powell was at the door when I get there
but no sooner am I out of the car than he's trying to force the door open.
I don't know why.
He disappears inside.
Vernon Oyenusi comes out with his hand to his face like that.
I now know he'd been sprayed.
I didn't know that then.
Then I thought he'd been punched or...
he was trying to hide his face for some reason.
He starts shouting, "I'm blind,"
and he's coming towards me waving that knife.
"I'm blind. I'm blind!"
But if he really is blind,
how come he's heading straight for me?
How come he knows where I am?
And if he is really blind, that's only gonna make it worse
'cause he's waving that knife about
and he could cut anybody without even knowing it.
(ECHOES) "Armed police. Put down the knife."
(VERNON YELLING)
You're trained to say it loud and clear.
"I will fire."
They must be in no doubt whatsoever that you will pull that trigger.
Loud, clear, firm.
"Put down the knife. I will fire."
God knows what it sounded like to him, but
in here I'm not loud, clear and firm at all, in here I'm...
begging with him, please, please, please stop.
Armed police.
-(VERNON YELLING) -Put down the knife or I will fire.
He doesn't stop.
And I know I'll have to shoot him.
And the one thing you can't do is miss.
You miss, you hit an innocent bystander,
so you're trained to aim for the chest.
Always the middle of the chest.
I fire.
(GUNSHOTS)
I meant to fire only the once,
but the... the trigger's so sensitive,
it goes off twice and I immediately think
people are gonna accuse me of wanting to finish him off but
not at all.
It just went off twice.
Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Anything that might be relevant to this inquest?
Could I say a few words to Mrs Oyenusi?
CORONER: Yes, of course.
I've got kids of my own, Mrs Oyenusi.
I can't imagine what you're going through.
I am so, so sorry.
Hello, Chloe.
Is this where Mum came?
Yes.
What happens when those machines get replaced?
We smash them up again.
They'll put you in prison?
Possibly.
I don't want that.
Shall we wage war by other means then?
(CHUCKLES) Yeah.
Please.
CHLOE: What are you doing?
It can help.
-(MATCHES RATTLING) -(MATCH HISSES)
It reminds us that Christ is here, sharing the pain.
Are you still angry with her?
A bit.
I thought I'd find her hanging.
I was dreading that.
CHLOE: Anything but that.
I read the boys' as well.
I thought all the three of them might say the same thing, but they didn't.
Was it you that phoned the college?
And what makes you think that?
No one else knew.
Dad came.
Mum had asked him to come and fix a radiator that didn't need fixing.
Yeah.
He was supposed to find her body, wasn't he?
-(SIGHS) -Wasn't he?
Look, Chloe, there's things that I simply cannot answer.
Well, she's dead.
You can tell me now she's dead.
I can't.
Mum expected to be at home.
You expected her to be at home.
If she had been at home,
I would have found her, I could have stopped it.
Why wasn't she?
I think she thought I was going to try and stop her
so she changed her plans at the last minute.
And you did try and stop it.
I can't answer that, Chloe.
If it had been me, if I'd known what you knew,
I'd have stopped it 'cause...
I never would have left her alone.
Do you think I didn't do enough?
Yeah.
Did you like her?
Yeah.
Did she like you?
I think so.
(CHUCKLES) Did she flirt with you?
-Yeah, a little. -(BOTH CHUCKLE)
She had a way of daring you to tell the truth
so you wanted to tell the truth.
Yeah.
(SNIFFS AND SOBS) Yeah.
Hey, it's all right.
(SNIFFLES)
MICHAEL: It's all right.
HELEN: (ON RECORDING) You're probably fast asleep
so never mind.
It's just that Vernon wanted a word, didn't you, Vernon?
If you play this in the morning, maybe you could phone him, Father.
You know what he's like.
Doesn't believe a word his mother tells him
but everything you say is gospel.
No pun intended, Father.
-(BEEPS) -AUTOMATED VOICE: Message deleted.
(SIGHS)
The coroner has...
He's asked a few witnesses, right at the end, if...
If there's anything else that's relevant to the inquest.
And if he asks you, you gonna tell him about that?
Well, yeah, I'll be on oath.
Will it make any difference to the verdict?
No.
So...
is it relevant?
IAN: He was ranting and raving well before we put in an appearance
so you can't say we
ratcheted up the tension by going in there.
That boy should never have been allowed out of that hospital.
I hear the nurses saying he was the least unwell.
If that's the case, I'd hate to see the most.
There was no way he was calming down.
On the contrary, he was stoking his anger.
I've seen it lots of times,
a man stoking his anger till he's able to do something
he'd never contemplate when sober and calm.
I knew I had to use that spray.
Had I not used it,
we would not be at his inquest today,
we would be at his mother's.
I know that Andrew Powell agrees with this because...
Shame on you girl!
-He started to barge the door... -Shame on you, girl!
-...round about the same time... -Shame on you!
CORONER: Mrs Oyenusi! Please.
...trying to get at Vernon, trying to restrain him.
CORONER: I know how hard this is for you
but, please, Mrs Oyenusi, you have to let the witness speak.
DAWN: The Taser was out of the question because of his clothing.
-(PANTING) -I doubt it would have had any effect.
The truth was they were sending Vernon home
even though he wasn't well.
So I can understand them lying at first.
But they did go on to tell the absolute truth and...
I respected them for that and I'm sure Helen did as well.
CORONER: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Anything that's relevant to this inquest?
Ah, I was dreading that question.
Is there something?
Helen phoned me that night to say that Vernon was ill.
Er, she got the answering machine...
Erm...
And, erm, I was there as she spoke but I didn't pick up...
It was, er...
Well, I'd had a busy day and it was...
It was late and I was tired.
Had I gone round there, had I...
Had I picked up,
Vernon might still be alive.
(INAUDIBLE)
ANDREW: I swear by Almighty God
that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
(SIGHS) And it's gonna cost me.
ANDREW: Ever since PC Dawn Morris
first walked into our nick, we've given her stick
because she's a woman.
Ever since PC Dawn Morris
first walked into our nick, she's had to prove
she's as good a copper as any man there.
And I think it's that that cost Vernon Oyenusi his life.
When I get there,
Vernon's distressed, yes, but he's not a threat to anyone.
It's as his mother says,
he just needs calming down
and I'm trying to do that until...
(SIGHS)
Dawn and Ian Wakefield suddenly appear behind Vernon
and scare the living shit out of him.
You see I think Dawn knows there and then
she's done the wrong thing.
But she can't admit it
because she's a woman in a man's world
and she's got to get control of the situation,
and prove how decisive she can be.
So, she goes for her spray
and that's when I start barging the door
and it's not to grab Vernon,
which is what Dawn said.
It's to stop Dawn spraying a mentally ill man.
Now, I'm screaming at her not to do it
and I know it registers.
I know she realises.
Shit, this is a big mistake
but what's she gonna do?
She's already got the canister in her hand,
she has to use it, she has to be decisive.
So she sprays him.
And he blunders out.
And we hear two shots.
It is the most stupid thing
I've ever seen a copper do.
CORONER: You've reached your decisions, I believe.
Yes.
CORONER: How have you answered question number one?
Did Sergeant Denis Kilcaid act lawfully or unlawfully
in shooting Vernon Oyenusi?
Lawfully.
CORONER: Thank you.
How have you answered question number two?
Did PC Dawn Morris act lawfully or unlawfully
in spraying Vernon Oyenusi?
Unlawfully.
CORONER: Thank you.
And how have you answered question number three?
Was Vernon Oyenusi lawfully or unlawfully killed?
Unlawfully.
CORONER: Thank you.
Thank you, members of the jury
for the way you've conducted yourself
throughout this difficult, demanding and profoundly moving inquest.
I'd like you to leave now,
but if you could wait in the jury room
because there's a document that each of you has to sign.
I'd also like to thank the administrative staff
for ensuring that this inquest proceeded
as smoothly and as efficiently as it did.
Thank you.
And finally, to Mrs Oyenusi,
I wish to offer our deepest sympathy on the loss of her son.
Vernon's death certificate will be completed
to reflect the findings of the jury,
and will be available to Mrs Oyenusi on payment of the appropriate fee.
(HELEN SOBBING)
Helen...
Please say you forgive me.
Why didn't you tell me?
(STAMMERS) I couldn't.
Even when you did tell the truth
you did so only because you were too frightened to lie on oath.
Yes?
-Yes. -You didn't do it for me.
You did it for yourself. Yes?
Yes.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
ALL: Amen.
The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
ALL: And with your spirit.
Brothers and sisters,
let us acknowledge our sins
and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
(MUFFLED SOBBING)
MICHAEL: For on the night He was betrayed,
He himself took bread,
and, giving You thanks...
MICHAEL'S MOTHER: You little horror!
...He said the blessing,
broke the bread and gave it to His disciples, saying,
"Take this, all of you, and eat of it
"for this is my body which will be given up for you."
(BELL RINGS)
(GUNSHOTS)
MICHAEL: In a similar way, when supper was ended,
He took the chalice...
ROZ: You said you'd lived with shame, but you haven't.
And, giving you thanks, He said the blessing...
(MUFFLED LAUGHING)
...and gave the chalice to His disciples saying...
ROZ: It's guilt you've lived with.
"Take this, all of you..."
ROZ: I'm going to kill myself, Michael.
"And drink of it.
(BREATH SHUDDERING)
"For this is the chalice of my blood,
"the blood of the new and eternal covenant..."
You bloody hypocrite.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
"...which will be poured out for you, and for many,
"for the forgiveness of sins.
-"Do this..." -(SOBBING)
"In memory of me."
(BELL RINGS)
(SHUDDERING BREATH)
I really admire you.
Thank you.
Have they been okay with you?
I haven't really been back. I'm... I'm off at the moment.
Stress.
Suits everyone.
-Are you okay? -Yeah.
I'm sorry for everything I put you through.
Michael, you didn't put me through anything.
Thanks.
You didn't kill him, either.
Thanks.
PETER: And do you always get them?
MICHAEL: Always.
And they're at their worst during the consecration?
Yes.
Why is that, do you think?
Because I know
in here...
that I'm not fit to be a priest.
So at the supreme moment of priesthood,
the consecration, this...
This reminds me of all the dirty, filthy things I have done in my life
and of all the dirty, filthy things that have been done to me
and it says, "How dare you think yourself worthy of this?"
Well, you're not alone.
You?
No. But other priests have told me the same thing in the past.
I'm packing it in.
I'll wait till my mum dies 'cause it would break her heart
but when she goes, I'm packing it in.
A woman, Roz,
she once said, "Guilt is you knowing you've done something wrong,
"shame is everyone knowing."
How right she was.
Will you join me?
I can't.
Michael!
I can't.
This is Michael Kerrigan, Lord, he's a good priest.
He's quick to forgive others, slow to forgive himself.
Grant him peace, Lord.
Amen.
Thank you.
(RAIN FALLING)
Yeah?
Sorry to bother you, Christina. I'm Andrew Powell.
I'm a copper.
I nicked you once.
I just wanted to have a quick word with you,
it's about Father Michael Kerrigan.
MICHAEL'S MOTHER: I'm sorry for how I treated you.
I don't know what you mean.
When you were young.
I still don't know what you mean.
I was a mess.
Nerves on edge.
Mum,
you've been a wonderful mother.
That's all that I remember.
Tell me something nice.
Right.
Remember Yaffee?
He had that donkey?
(CHUCKLES)
Mum?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Oh, God,
who commanded us to honour our father and mother,
have compassion on my mother's soul.
Forgive her her sins
and grant that I may see her again
in the joy of eternal brightness.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Hi, Beth, it's me.
Yeah, she died in the night.
I'm sorry, Beth. I know.
I will.
Bye.
MICHAEL: Why would I play in the boys' league
when I was playing for the school?
JOE: 'Cause school football was shite.
All right?
MICHAEL: School football was pass and move.
Boy's league was...
-Kick, rush and threaten everybody. -Brian Marwood.
That's two.
JOE: What position?
-Outside right. -(LAUGHS) Outside right my arse.
JOE: You were too slow to play wide right.
MICHAEL: My pace was deceptive, mate.
JOE: Yeah, you were slower than you looked.
Slower than a week in the nick.
I bet there's not a man here could live with me over 50 yards.
-Yeah, yeah. -Are you listening?
Not one man here could live with me over 50 yards.
-Especially you. -Bollocks.
Curran. Terry Curran.
I once give him ten yards.
I were six year old!
All right then, whoever's man enough, get outside now.
50 yard sprint.
I can beat you, hopping.
MICHAEL: Aged 50, start from scratch.
Anybody above 50, one yard for each year. All right?
-JOE: Right! -Come on then!
Are you men or mouses?
Right...
Taking this with me.
(CHUCKLES)
It's beneath me.
Have you played with me?
Come on, Eddie, don't muck about!
And back to that tree...
JOE: It's pissing down!
EDDIE: It's not all here!
Eddie, man, just start it, will you!
Just start it!
On your marks, get set, go!
(SHOUTING)
Hang on!
(INAUDIBLE)
(SIGHS)
(EXHALES)
(GRUNTS)
Oh.
Hangover?
Yeah.
When was the last time you had one of them?
Eighth of May, 1979.
Drew 2-2 with Leicester and got relegated.
You'll be all right for the funeral?
Father Adrian's doing it.
What?
I'm not a priest, Beth.
I'm an imposter.
You're doing it, you prick.
It was her dying wish.
Good morning, all.
I'd like to thank Father Adrian here
for letting me conduct this service in his church today.
And I'd like to welcome you all.
Especially the, er, Kerrigan clan,
many of whom haven't been to Mass for years.
So they're probably wondering whether they can take communion or not.
You can.
I'll give a general absolution during the service
so there's nothing stopping you.
Please take it.
It would mean so much to me and to Mam.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
ALL: Amen.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
ALL: And with your spirit.
As we prepare to celebrate the mystery of Christ's love,
let us call to mind our sins.
The times I resented having to visit our Mam.
The times I did it out of duty rather than love.
Oh, how that hurts today.
For on the night He was betrayed,
He himself took bread,
and giving you thanks,
He said the blessing,
broke the bread
and gave it to his disciples, saying,
"Take this, all of you,
"and eat of it,
"for this is my body
"which will be given up for you."
(BELL RINGS)
In a similar way,
when supper was ended,
He took the chalice
and giving You thanks,
He said the blessing,
and gave the chalice to His disciples, saying...
"Take this, all of you, and drink from it,
"for this is the chalice of my blood,
"the blood of the new and eternal covenant
"which will be poured out for you
"and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
"Do this in memory of me."
(BELL RINGS)
The body of Christ.
Amen.
The body of Christ.
Amen.
The body of Christ.
Amen.
The body of Christ.
Amen.
(MOUTHING)
Oh...
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
(CHUCKLES)
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
(CHUCKLES)
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
The body of Christ.
Amen, you wonderful priest.
The body of Christ.
# Tell me what it's like in heaven
# I hope it's kinder Than it is down here
# With all the trials and tribulations
# All the worry and living in fear
# Hallelujah
# We might be bruised but we're not broken #