Please go to this site and scroll down to Sr. Briege and the Eucharist, it's stunning. http://www.101foundation.com/101timespdf/nl82.pdf
That was really beautiful Gail. I loved also the sorry at the start of the little sick boy with the kidney disease. I think truly holy people like Sister Briege are common sensed and down to earth. Sr Briege seems very much like this. Very much so ,I can imagine her as a farmers wife feeding the chickens. Bad people tend to be ,well, complicated. I would love to meet her some time. New year greeting: http://www.sisterbriege.com/mp3/prayer5.mp3
I too would love to meet her and had no idea that she was in California in the month of January. Unfortunately I won't be able to see her this trip, maybe another. She's certainly a gift to us.
Sr. Briege is wonderful. She has been to Buffalo twice for 3-day parish retreats and each time the parish that she was visiting was packed for all of her sessions. She has a great devotion to the Eucharist and an important ministry to priests. She is also very down-to-earth and has a great sense of humor. If you have the opportunity to spend a little time with her, I would highly encourage it. She is in Ireland at least a couple of times a year, and is also in the US quite a bit (her home base is in Tampa, Florida). I think her schedule is posted on her website, which Padraig posted above.
We are so blessed to be living in a time such as this. I some times have fantasies of traveling to hear these people like Sr. Briege speak and go to retreats in monasteries in different countries. .
Briege seems to live in the States now and is always travelling, I am sure you will meet her sometime, Gail
I read both articles ...on Sr. Briege McKenna and the other one, about the boy with kidney disease...wow, both are great reads and truly inspirational. Sr. Briege's story on Eucharist makes me aware and love the Eucharistic Jesus so much more! Yes, this story helps me to increase my Eucharistic love! Thank you!
Catherine, I'm glad you enjoyed the reads. It's a simple but very powerful publication. Once we were in our Legion of Mary meeting and the President started to read a story from 101 and I stopped her because I was laughing. It was Padraig's story that the 101 Foundation had published and it had found it's way to our meeting. There, as far as I know, has never been a dull issue. You might want to look into it. 101 Foundation PO Box 151 Asbury, NJ 08802-0151 yearly subscription is $2 per year They are taking reservations for the Miracle Flight. They will get you to Garabandal, you have to do the rest. What a tempter! Gail
Thanks for the information! That is sure funny about what happened at that meeting! Small world indeed! Regarding the miracle flight....yes, I know that is surely a tempter. Wished I had the money to be able to go...that trip to Garabandal is on my wish list! It'd be even more awesome that if I do get to go there and be healed of my Deafness and among other things on the Day of Miracle! That'd be an ideal place to have healing occured there along with numerous of other people being healed at same time, too! A truly glorious and happy day for all who would be there. We'd be all dancing and singing praises and thanks to God! How awesome!
Im with you on this Catherine. I have a wheat allergy and im only allowed to receive the precious blood. It would be a great grace. But I would rather see others healed in my family. Gods time!
For anyone in Ireland, Sr Briege will be one of the main speakers at the Divine Mercy Conference at the RDS, Dublin in a couple of weeks time (Feb 21-22). Might see some of you there!
I went to it anyway and thought it was great. Clearly Sr McKenna and Fr Scallon are very holy people and are very determined and sincerely trying to encourage and lift the morale of priests and religious all over the world. What struck me in any case was that modern day mysticism is really important in some quarters now in Ireland. When you glance at the various stalls and talk to people about the books you find they are very often a collection of messages from above, which I think is great because it means we are just accepting help from heaven I think. But this isn't the way the 'establishment' Irish Church has been over the last few decades at all. Veritas, the main Catholic book seller, don't push that kind of literature at all I don't think, nor the Irish Catholic nor any bishops that I can think of. But is certainly out there in force now. The other striking thing was how Fr Ross, the spiritual director of the conference, talked so openly about a 'purifying' process that is going to happen including martyrdom like what happened in Egypt. He is right of course I think but still its new to hear that talked about so openly.
No it's true the Clergy in Ireland (generally) have a horror of any talk about mysticism or the supernatural....but especially Prophecy. In reading of the Church in the USA I have genuinely been amazed how open they appear to be to such phenomena. Mother Angelica was a wonderful example of this, she appeared to revel in such things. I am very surprised in a way they accepted Sr Briege as they did. (But then she was a personal friend of Popes, so I suppose they never got a chance to have a good whack at her).
I was at the conference on Saturday. Really enjoyed the talks by Sr Bridge and Philip Ryan on Medjugorje. Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin so he can't be adverse to what is being discussed at the conference. I really enjoyed the conference.
