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:)

The Catholic Church in Ireland is a mess? - a little clue

From inviting Cumann an Aifrinn Laidinigh fans on Facebook (who seem to be from all over the world:D) to Fr Wang's FB event WYD London2016, I found this on one of their pages:


This clip was from 1999. If that audience was representative of the Catholic population of Ireland at that time, even then they were totally ignorant of what the Church really represents.

Ironically, the only member of the audience who was intelligent enough to understand Fr O'Hanlon's point was a Hare Krishna young woman:D

Fast forward to 2012, and guess which of the two priests is still faithful to the Church?

Fr Iggy O'Donovan, the heretic who carried on with his heresies:

is now prior in St Augustine's in Drogheda...

The crowd pleaser isn't just trying to please only one crowd though:

While claiming to be anti-war evidently he slammed Peace protestors on RTE, while cosying up to Bertie Aherne and American FBI agents at fancy do's


However,

The faithful priest, Fr David O'Hanlon


is now working as a curate


Let's hope the roman missile, Archbishop Charles Brown, does something about this state of affairs!



Post script:

There is hope for Ireland, though -

Thank God that after about a century of neglect, since 1983 the Irish chapter have been following the Chartre Pilgrimage again

* UK itinerary 2012

* Irish itinerary 2012 starting Friday 25th May 2012

See some pilgrims on this youtube clip

The Des Roche RIP memorial fund is dedicated to helping those who are either still in school or unwaged to attend the annual Paris to Chartres pilgrimage

Silent dignity in the face of Channel4...

from an ocean away, the tides are turning here too - take courage:

A great response from emceemiko...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=SejuPK4M330



Many realise the beauty of the true Church / the radical message of Jesus / the comfort and strength it brings no matter how battered, broken or bruised we are by worldly life.

emceemiko above was responding to this guy whom I suspect may be on his way TO the Church despite his protestations

Here are a couple of other great responses:

This is the uncompromising voice of the Church that may get through to him via Spirit Juice

and what about this Catholic school chaplain - could teach a few Catholic schools how to teach the Faith?? Who says you're too old to rap :D

and

here is a more in-depth analysis from Fr Robert Barron


It's a rocky road, but we're in a better place than we have been for a while:)


Recognise this fella last seen in Dublin ? or love undefiled?


And now the wonderful Mother Miriam on Catholic Answers