Ireland has fallen

David, our troubles stem from a lack of belief in the Real Presence. People won't bother spending time adoring what they believe is only a symbol.

The Church needs to get back to explaining that the Blessed Eucharist really is Jesus, even if that means constant reminders Sunday after Sunday until it sinks in.

 

I attended a day of reperation to Almighty God in St Saviour Priofy in Limerick yesterday. It was well attended. This special day of prayer was held in 7 churches around Ireland. victory is in our grasp. Claim it and keep praying especially devotion to The Holy Face.

 

Ireland is in my prayers, maryrose.

Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!

 

Yes!! I have been praying to the Holy Face. I will claim the promises and keep praying.

 

“The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families…that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.”
— The Servant of God Lucia of Fatima (+2005)

Ireland is in my prayers.

 

Actions speak much louder than words.
No amount of explaining is going to convince those who do not believe when they can see that the Eucharist is not accorded the respect that our Lord deserves, by the priests themselves:
- Having their backs turned to the Tabernacle throughout Mass.
- Some priests do not genuflect after the consecration.
- No concern for any particles that may drop to the floor while giving communion.
- Having lay people, whose hands are not consecrated, give communion.
- Having so many lay people walking up and down the sanctuary.

The sense of sacred has been lost with the Novus Ordo mass.

 

Well there are things that are beyond our level of control
Let us follow David Healy’s lead and make sure we do many Adorations
We can do our parts to give Our Lord the Adoration and respect which is within our ability and “pay grade”
I’m sure this reparation from us will console Our Lord
We still have the Real Presence

 

The Mass is Golgotha.

 

Unfortunately most people aren't catechised any more and this IS the responsibility of our bishopric

 

How did you first come to believe? I’ll bet it was at a NO Mass

This thread is really about Ireland and praying for Ireland and doing reparations

 

Ireland, like the rest of Europe, is mission territory. It's a different kind of mission territory than your part of the world. In many respects the missionary work here is more difficult because so many people fit Fr. Malachi Martin's description of modernist Bishops of his time - they have lost the faith and don't know it.

Most of the things you mention have contributed to the current state of affairs but they are only part of it. My suggestion that every priest at every Mass should be telling the congregation that they are about to receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus would be a start. If the priests say it often enough and with conviction, it will spark the memory of some, hopefully many, people in the pews. Many have forgotten and nobody is reminded any more that, as DeGaulle said, the Mass is Golgotha. The sacrifice Jesus made for us has been swept aside with the emphasis on "the Lord's table" and talking about a "personal relationship with Jesus" which can mean anything the priest or the person listening to him wants it to mean. We couldn't get any more personal with Jesus than when we receive Him in the Blessed Eucharist but we need to be in a state of grace for that because if we aren't we couldn't get further from Him no matter how many charitable of social justice projects we are involved in.

Incidentally, unconsecrated hands did give Communion pre-Vatican 11. It didn't happen at Mass but in the days when priests didn't have cars, people were permitted to take Communion home to sick and housebound elderly relatives. It was rare but it did happen in the days when there were no EMHC's.

Anyway, all we can do is step up our own efforts, always mindful of our own failings. David's suggestion is a good one and I am seeing more of it in surrounding parishes especially in the run-up to the referendum. While I hope and pray that it will be enough, I'm conscious that no matter what we do it won't come close to the fidelity and devotion of previous generations. They prayed, trusted and waited for centuries and it only took us half a century to get ourselves into this mess.

 

Amen. "Pray, hope and don't worry."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=82&v=_QAfesYmZWI

 

Wow. No coincidences! Also Fr Heilman on his website Roman Catholic Man has a great article “I’m going In For Ireland!” And he gives 5 ways we can all “go in for Ireland”. He has been doing a Rosary novena to end May 25. But has other suggestions. I hope everyone will check him out.

 

I first learned the faith as my late mother prayed with me when tucking me in at night.

 

Yes, I understand.
My response just flowed from Dolours' post:

The following is an excerpt from an article that explains perfectly why the 2 issues are linked together:

"This is why the pro-life movement and the movement to restore Catholic tradition are ideal partners.
The traditionalist values above all what has been given, what is received from another.
The accent is never on our own doing and making, but on the loving custody of a treasure entrusted to our safekeeping.
Human life is the first and most basic gift from God in the natural order, entrusted to our hearts and hands.
The sacred liturgy is the first and most basic gift from God in the supernatural order, likewise entrusted to us poor sinners—indeed, nothing more precious has ever been entrusted by God to man.
We are pro-tradition for the same fundamental reason that we are pro-life."
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/...-liturgy-in-accordance-with-churchs-tradition