Joachim Flynn was born in Glasgow to Irish parents in the year 1926.\nHe was a Catholic and went to a Catholic school with other Catholic\nboys, but Joachim always felt that there was something about him that\nwasn't just quite right. He didn't think like the other boys and the\nParish Priest tried to convince him that he had a vocation to the\npriesthood and that was the reason why he felt as he did, but Joachim\nhad no inclinations for the priesthood or for the married state. The\nother Catholic boys grew up and fell in love, mostly with Catholic\ngirls, but some went their own way and disregarded the teachings of the\nchurch into which they were born and married elsewhere, if they married\nat all.\nJoachim grew up too and he also fell in love, but he fell in love with\nGod and the Shadow of God followed Joachim throughout the whole of his\nlife with a special vocation . . . greater than the priesthood ...\ngreater than the married state. He was born in the imitation of\nChrist, where like Christ he gave his life for another.\n'For no greater love hath any man ... than that he lay down his life\nfor his friend.'\n\n
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