![]() They resented the brothers’ impetuosity at asking for a big-time reward for following Jesus. We should not rush to join the 10 disciples who are ready to turn on James and John. In some measure, that is the lesson of this Sunday’s Gospel (Mark 10:35-45). Simply to do as Our Lord did, to follow Him on the Way of the Cross, to serve as He served, to love as He loved, is its own blessing and reward. The Beatitudes are chock full of promised rewards for suffering, for example.īut the first reward we ought to have in mind, if we can muster up enough greatness of heart to think of it, is the reward that comes from the sheer fact of imitating Jesus. Once in a while He does, like when He says in John 15:20, at the Last Supper, “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” But usually - in part, I suppose, because He knows our weakness so well - He tucks in a reference to some kind of blessing. We can’t say He hasn’t warned us!Īt the same time, even using the word “warned” reminds me that, actually, Jesus almost never makes these teachings about our discipleship sound like a warning. ![]() Take up your cross and follow me - or you won’t be worthy of me. ![]() Learn from me, Our Lord says, for I am meek and humble of heart. We are to take up our crosses to follow Jesus. But I think it is impossible to overstate the emphasis God places in the Scriptures on the role of humility and suffering in the Christian life. That’s what we’re doing – introducing an element of jeopardy to all applications for hearings.It is easy to overstate how often certain themes appear in Sacred Scripture. “If you look at penalty points for motoring offences,” says Shaw, “you can accept or reject that but if you take it to court and don’t succeed, your penalty points are doubled. To counter this, the hearings committee will be obliged to double the suspension for anyone seeking a hearing based on purely procedural grounds, frequently by interrogating the referee’s report rather than arguing the infraction didn’t happen or was not deliberate. He either escapes, gets a reduction or at worst, is no worse off than when he started so he might as well shake the tree and see what falls out of it.” A player is no worse off if he seeks a hearing. “Take the custom and practice of challenging every decision. As he points out, there is no incentive for a player to accept the penalty proposed by the match committee on foot of a referee’s report. “We think that parties will grasp the seriousness of this behaviour by virtue that it’s being dealt with at Croke Park level.”Īnother of the measures he emphasises is penalising vexatious challenges to proposed suspensions. Category III infractions will be treated as current category IV and in relation to very serious infractions, like assaults on referees – they are going to be dealt with centrally. “The second thing is we’re changing the categories around suspension by lifting them all. We hope that it will get support at Congress because at present our rules aren’t saying that. ![]() We’re trying to change the culture at those age groups by making it twice as serious a matter. “Firstly, for a team official, mentor or supporter misbehaving at an under-age game, the minimum penalty will be twice the applicable penalty at adult level. One of the most troubling examples is abusive conduct at under-age and juvenile matches. It has been well established that public cultures of misbehaviour are best confronted by escalating penalties to the point where miscreants are forced to question their actions. He refers to a couple of proposals and their intended effect. How do you challenge a culture that facilitates abusive behaviour by tolerating it during matches and then failing to punish it when reported? We can’t expect young referees to be as thick-skinned as someone doing it for 15 years.” We have a recruitment and retention problem, primarily to do with the fact that when they are starting out, the sort of stuff thrown at them means it’s not for everybody. “We wanted to change the culture around match officials. Feargal McGill, the GAA’s director of games administration, sat in and Larry attended them all. We had the chair of the CCCC (Central Competitions Control Committee), Derek Kent, the chair of the hearings committee Brian Rennick, myself and Liam Keane from rules advisory (RAC). “Uachtarán Larry McCarthy wanted us to take a look at anything that might improve discipline.
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