Indeed I witnessed the storm at first hand and didn’t sleep till 530am. Truly apocalyptic lightning, the like of which I’ve not see in about 35 years.
Fr Brian mcKevitt gave a brilliant homily at the English mass in Medjugorje on 5/27/2018. It can be found on Marytv.
What a great holy young priest! Where is he from? It is unsusal for a priest these days to recommend fasting and mortification. I love that beautiful statue of Our Lady in the background. Gorgeous. It reminds me I will have to do a pilgrimage to Knock over the summer.
He is Fr Marius O Reilly, based in Cork. He's involved with a new magazine called Totus Tuus. If you Google it you can read it online, it's very good.
Amen!! I was reflecting a little further upon those verses I cited from 1 Kings and what struck me was the verse “He [Elijah] repaired the altar of Yahweh which had been broken down.” I see in this verse at big part of the solution to this crisis: the restoration and repair of the Liturgy which has suffered far too many abuses since Vatican II. I do believe Vatican II was a work of the Holy Spirit and there are many Dioceses across the world that have properly implemented the reforms, but there are far too many abuses (I think of that blasphemous Mass recently in Germany with the man dancing around like a male stripper in front of the Altar). It was only after Elijah had repaired Yahweh’s altar, that the Divine intervention took place.
I was looking at the breakdown of the tallies from the referendum for Co. Waterford. Out of the 170 polling stations in the county, only ONE came out with a majority of "no" votes. That was Mount Melleray.
Thats an amazing homily BC, I put that on facebook because I thought more people might like to listen to it. Its a bit of a scolding of the modern Catholic Church in Ireland but justified I think. http://marytv.tv/english-mass-in-medjugorje/ , the english homily of the 28/5/2018.
I don't think the storm was the Lord's response to the referendum. If it were, Dublin should have been flattened and the weather here has been glorious. In fact, we could do with some rain to freshen things up. Maybe God is saving the worst for us and giving us a chance to repent first. We've had flying ants descend on us during the past couple of summers. For one day each year the garden and footpaths are covered with them and then they disappear. Thankfully, I know what to expect this year, otherwise I would be imagining that God had sent us a plague of locusts.
The arrival of the flying ants signals mating day for them Dolours, you might want to cover your hair if you don't want any unmentionable substances in it
I remembered this story from when abortion was legalized in Mexico, this was the only site I found that had a picture. Living Art: A Pro-Life Message for Today from Our Lady of Guadalupe The world famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe miraculously materialized on the cactus or "agave" cloak (tilma) of a Mexican peasant in 1531 and was responsible for the conversion of twelve million Indians. It is now venerated as a symbol of "pro-life" causes in the Americas because the Virgin Mary appears pregnant in this miraculous image. On April 24, 2007, the same day abortion was legalized in Mexico, after a mass offered for unborn children in the Basilica in which is displayed the miraculous image, a very intense light appeared suddenly on the Tilma. At the level of the womb, the light appeared like a shiny halo, in the shape of an embryo. Experts have testified that it is not a reflection or something added, rather it comes from the Tilma and is in the exact location of a woman's womb. Witnesses were able to take photographs and even to film the phenomenon that went on for a full hour. Father Luis Matos of the Beatitudes Community) writes: "The engineer Luis Girault who studied one of the pictures that was taken of the light, has confirmed the authenticity of the proof and was able to specify that the proof had not been modified, nor altered with the superposition of another picture for example. He has discovered that the image is not the result of a reflection, but literally comes from the inside of the image of Our Lady. The resulting light is very white, pure and intense, different from the glow coming from the flash of a camera. This light is surrounded by a halo and seems to be floating inside the abdomen of Our Lady. This halo has the shape and proportion of an embryo. If one is to examine this picture even more closely by turning it on a sagittal plane, it is then possible to distinguish inside the halo certain shadowy areas with the characteristics of a human embryo inside the maternal womb." Living Art: A Pro-Life Message for Today from Our Lady of Guadalupe
Yuk! I spread that Japanese pesticide powder all around the place at the first sign of them and then I don't set foot outside the house until they're gone.
This is a message as clear and bright and powerful as if it were written in letters if gold the absolute beauty of the human baby and the absolute horror of abortion in God's eyes. I praise Him for His mercy to those who repent. But hardened hearts like we saw in the celebrations in Ireland are frightening. Will they use the grace they are given? Must get back on my Rosaries. Between the flu and the vote I fell off the wagon. Not an excuse. Very ashamed.
Just came across this people, it was on something called Reddit, and the first one is part of a post regarding the 8th, what follows in the replies, absolutely disgusting; Post; Ireland is doomed. What is Ireland now? A shadow of its former state. I hope you all see the light of day soon. It's not a choice, it's the blatant murder of an innocent baby, go look up an abortion procedure happening. May 25th, 2018 will go down in history as one of Ireland's darkest days. God save Ireland. Replies; 1/ Ireland's former state was a downtrodden socially and economically repressed puppet for the Jesus brigade. Thank f*** for that. 2/ I thought this was a piss take. Are you serious? I read a handful of your posts. You're a deranged maniac. This thread is even funnier than if it had been a piss take or a parody. This is gas. 3/This thread made my morning. Can't see it getting better until I tuck into my dead baby for breakfast. 4/I’m having my mine with toast and brown sauce. Tis a special day after all. 5/Over here in America we chop them up and whip up a fritata with them. I put hot sauce on mine, but that's just because I'm extra devilish. 6/ This doesn't "Doom" Ireland, it rescues it from the dark days of the Child-Molesting baby-selling abusive Catholic church. It is a great day for Ireland that we finally tell the Catholic church to crawl back into the hole the dug for themselves. We enter a new age, a modern age, an age where the Catholic church has no influence. There are no "unborn children" just foetuses. Finally, assuming that a lightning storm is a sign from god? Really? I mean how backward are you? Do you worship the sun as well? Do you sacrifice virgins to ensure a good harvest? It's 2018, it's a bit of lighting after a hot summer day. Read a bit about meteorology and shut the hell up. 7/ We enter a new age, a modern age, an age where the Catholic church has no influence. I'll believe that when people stop getting their kids christened; 8/That's next up, they are already working on the "baptism barrier", which is the only reason why a lot of people get their kids baptised. 9/This lightning is purely a coincidence. A happy coincidence. Stop trying to ruin it with more religious lies. We had enough of it listening to all the SaveThe8ths. 10/Don't mind that God fella, He's an awful drama queen. Floods this and pillar of salt that, all because there won't be as many kids to get stuffed into septic tanks or molested! Been fierce cranky ever since they stopped all them Crusade yokes. Probably misses all the attention. 11/Ever noticed that his smiting powers decreased as time went on? From laying waste all round him with fire and flood, he was eventually reduced to inflicting his chosen peoples enemies with plagues of.............piles. Yep. Piles. I'm sure they were quaking in their sandals at the thought. 12/And I'm sure all them dead kids just happened to have nuns for babysitters. Unfortunate for the Church that so many of their people are up to all sorts, huh? 13/Vote was Friday. Did God oversleep or something? 14/He waited on the count apparently out of respect for the democratic process 15/Ah he's a good lad our God. If he had started too early the entire concept of cause and effect would go out the window. Respect for democracy and the concept of linear time in one go. 16/ How do we know that the thunder and lightning means God is mad? The man could be applauding like flook up there. Makes more sense. 17/He's angry because the result yesterday made him realise he's far more alone than he previously thought he was. Must suck to realise that the overwhelming majority of your demographic find your views repugnant. 18/A baby would kill you if it had the chance 19/Everyone knows that thunder is God clapping. He was celebrating, the lightning was just the static electricity build up between his mighty hands. He was just congratulating us for repealing the eight. I mean, if it was really important, he would've put "don't repeal the eight" somewhere in the bible or something surely. 20/There is no God. That's only a section of an attack on whoever posted the main post, on whatever this reddit is,
Editor's note: This sermon was preached on Sunday by Dom Mark Kirby, O.S.B., at Silverstream Priory in County Meath, Ireland. Dom Kirby reflects on Ireland's "national apostasy" in the wake of the country's vote to legalize abortion. May 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Preamble to the Constitution of Ireland. In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred, We, the people of Éire, humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, Who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial, gratefully remembering their heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the full independence of our Nation, and seeking to promote the common good with due observance of Prudence, Justice, and Charity, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured, true social order attained, the unity of our country restored, and concord established with other nations, do hereby adopt, enact, and give ourselves this Constitution. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. On this feast of the Most Holy Trinity, two days after Ireland’s national apostasy from the Holy Catholic Faith, how can we hear the Gospel that was sung just moments ago, and not recall the Constitution that the Irish people gave themselves 80 years ago in 1938? Friday’s vote was not about abortion only; it was about killing Ireland’s soul, about snuffing out all that made Ireland a beacon among the nations, about publicly renouncing all that, from the time that Saint Patrick kindled his blazing fire on the Hill of Slane, made this island home of ours a great welcoming Catholic hearth in a world grown cold and dark. Ireland was, among all the nations on earth, the one that unsparingly sent forth sons and daughters, intrepid in confessing the Holy Trinity, to bring the light of faith to the most far-flung corners of the globe. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28, 18) How did we come to this? Among those who voted “Yes” on Friday, the vast number were baptized, and sealed with the sign of the Gift of the Holy Ghost in Confirmation. Some of these would have been confirmed but a few years ago. Among them were people who once knelt at the altar to receive the adorable Body of Christ, formed by the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, immolated on the Cross, risen from the tomb, ascended into heaven, and returning in glory. Among them are people who, (and I say this with fear and trembling), will dare even to present themselves for Holy Communion today. To these, I can only repeat what the Apostle says: Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 11, 27-29) One cannot say that we were not warned. God did send his prophets to Ireland. I think of Frank Duff. I think of Saint John Paul II who, in October 1979, was given a rapturous welcome. Pope Benedict XVI’s Letter to the Catholics of Ireland, written only eight years ago, was prophetic. What became of it? Why was it filed away and not heeded? There are reports of victory celebrations in Dublin and elsewhere: a satanic crowing, jeers hurled at Our Lord, against His Virgin Mother, and against the Church. The whole climate is eerily reminiscent of France in 1789, of Mexico in 1910, of Russia in 1917, of Germany in 1933, and of Spain in 1936. Even worse than the crowds hell–bent on celebrating the choice of death over life are the complacent lies of those government ministers who, with a smug satisfaction, speak of A New Modern Ireland At Last, an Ireland of compassion, justice, and respect for women. The accent in all such discourses is that of the ancient serpent: Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death. For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3, 1-5) You will forgive me if I repeat today the words of the prophet Ezechiel: Thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I will give her cup into thy hand. Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister’s cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. (Ezechiel 23, 30-34) What is remains for us? I will tell you what remains: And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity. (1 Corinthians 13, 13) Draw near to the altar of the Holy Sacrifice, even as our forefathers drew in around the Mass Rocks. The altar is Ireland’s Divine Hearth. Not for nothing was the altar of the Lamb shown at Knock in 1879. Fall down in adoration and in reparation. Cry out to the Immaculate Mother of God, still Ireland’s Queen and Sorrowful Mother. My own dear father, with all the wisdom of his 91 years, said to me yesterday, “God has a plan. God will have the last word.” And what says Our Lord in today’s Gospel? He says this: “Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.” (Matthew 28, 20). In this promise of His, let us rest all our hope.
