Eucharistic Adoration on the cards with this lot?

Sorry, but they don't look as if Catholic morals are uppermost on their agenda!

Wouldn't look out of place on pink News? Think again! How about the Menevia Catholic diocesan youth development officer's Menevia Youth page?

Right above an invitation to do a gap year as a volunteer

young adults aged 18-30: placements from September 2012 – July 2013. The volunteers will live in community, [?big brother style?] work with young people in the UK for the year, and have a 6 week international experience at the start of 2013.

The volunteers will be part of one of our UK partner bases (currently St. Mary’s Chaplaincy Team in Blackpool, in Salford with the Society for the Holy Child Jesus, and near Durham with the Youth Ministry Team). During this time they develop youth leadership groups and work in communities and schools, [stating Catholic teaching on sex outside marriage like CES do no doubt!] gaining skills themselves in leadership, developing their understanding of Social Justice around the world and aspects around global development, along with developing faith awareness in themselves and others. [No mention of learning about the Catholic Faith, morals, prayer life as per the CCC handed down from Jesus and His Church for the last 2000+ years]

With priests like Fr Ceirion Gilbert guiding them no wonder our Catholic youth are being led astray - not by the secularist society we live in, but by the very priests whose mission is supposed to lead the faithful towards our heavenly Father for all eternity:(

see also: http://www.lovingit.co.uk/2012/03/pandoctrinal-catholicism-pick-and-mix-marriage.html

and
http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/another-catholic-priest-speaks-out-over.html

Hexagenarian rap

My rap in response to the laudable Laurence's on marriage:

a pop star came to school today.
his entourage in tow.
ipad floating round on shoot.
kids desperate for an icon to adore.

got to rescue them from sla-ver-ee.

a picture with the dancers - that's it!
got to wait now for the new release on itunes 26th.

1-in-3 are now at risk of sxabuse from boyz and youthz
but we have got to shout the Truth
drowned out by EVAw and their STONEwaa brooz

got to rescue them from sla-ver-ee.

teach them of the God made Man in Galilee.

lead them to the altar of the one and only God made Man to set us free.

show them why He died upon the tree.

to guide these little eps
is up to you and me
the parent/state prisoners of the new mentality
too busy finding pleasure bodily
abandoned/aborted all responsibility
it's up to you and me
to shout out from the highest olive
'do not destroy our natural family'
do not destroy
do not destroy
you can employ
all the machinery of the state
but in the Name of all that is Holy
we will defend
to the bitter bounds
the sanctity of marriage and human breath

First Confession

Penance Talk from Vince Luckey on Vimeo.

Confession... long distance call to God... the priest is the telephone... the confessional is the phonebooth:)

Then you listen to the beautiful words of absolution...

If you ever have a priest treat you in a way that you think 'he's making me scared or nervous', you say excuse me father this isn't helping me and you get up and go someplace else - but you don't go shopping for a priest who tells you what you want to hear, you go to a priest who tells you what you need to hear... but we want him to tell us in a nice way

Fr Fasano
St John the Baptist Catholic Church
Fort Royal
Virginia

Yer wondering is there someone to blame...

also with more and more couples in Ireland finding it difficult to conceive...

I came off the pill...

handed a cup for a sample, a magazine - it wasn't Ireland's Own...toilet...

St Genesuis Blog has a posting of a prayer for Dr Phil Boyle:

Pray the all goes well and that the message that life respecting
ethically sound fertility treatment is effective and available...

We need to seriously pray!

Having watched the Late Late, here are some thoughts:

Dr O'Boyle from (1:14:12) was certainly hedging his bets there! I understand that Ireland is a place where it is really difficult to stand up for truth and justice like our forebears did. The heartrending thing is that they had to do it against alien foes, today it's the "people of Ireland" who will massacre you in the public place for stating the truth:(

Ireland needs holy priests, holy doctors, holy nurses, and holy teachers who are prepared to be martyrs for the truth! As well as prayers round the clock.

There was one brave young woman (at 1:22:40) in the audience who spoke up for the disabled - not one person clapped - says it all about Ireland today:(

Watch 0:53:15 to 1:27:0 to see the sorry state Ireland is in!

Never mind, women will be flocking from everywhere to Dublin to freeze their eggs / embryos - Ireland's legislation has no limits - in fact there is no legislation! Ireland will get rich again being to frozen eggs what Switzerland is to people who've had enough!

Dr simon Fishel, an expert at Planned Parenhood-style speak. Despite the fact that

Dr Fishel's early work at Cambridge during the late 1970's was the first to demonstrate that embryos are capable of responding to their environment and communicating with the uterus and external factors.

,

according to him 'When does life begin?'is "the wrong question"

Fr Gabriel Burke: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fr Gabriel Burke: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Job paints a very dark picture of our existence. Our life is nothing more than pressed service. We are like the worker who is thinking only of his wages. The days and nights do not go fast enough. This picture of man is not unique to Job. Many modern philosophers have the same idea. If we recall the French philosopher Albert Camus and his many books, the most famous in English is probably either the Stranger or the Plague. Camus as a philosopher comes to the realisation that life is absurd, there in no meaning to it.Many people have the same idea as Camus, they may not be able to express it in words but their actions speak loudly. How many people live for the weekend. Monday through Friday work just for the wages that they can spend getting sozzled every night of the weekend. Their weekdays are such a drudgery the can't wait until Friday when they can drink so much the can't remember anything. We see people lives full of activity, so much so they can't stay easy for 5 minutes. We see people who need the fix of pornography from the internet. People who become so occupied with the soaps on telly that they are taken away from their own lives. People have so many ways nowadays to deaden the pain of their meaningless lives. But our lives are not meaningless. Christ has given meaning to our lives. He has also given us an example on how we can find that meaning in our lives. He went off to a lonely place, He spent time with God. He learned to listen to His Father and refocused His life. We all need to do this everyday. It is not enough to just come on a Sunday for 40 minutes , we need to spend time with God everyday. We need to be alone and in silence with Him. At first the silence can be difficult so many things can some up . But by placing these before God we are allowing Him to guide our lives. By spending time alone with God we are refocusing our life on Him and bringing meaning into our life. Our whole life becomes prayer to God. Our work becomes part of Gods creation started in Genesis. Our sorrows and difficulties are united to Christ on the Cross and so become salvific. This week promise yourself to spend a least 10- 15 minutes with God. Find some quite place were nobody can disturb you and just sit with the Lord.

Thank you, Father:)