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Monthly Archives: Jun 2016

Love

20 Mon Jun 2016

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‘As long as you are happy’ is what so many people say nowadays. Besides it sounding very patronising it is also very stupid !

If you are happy believing in God fine, that is your opinion but I’m happy drinking too much and living an immoral life so leave me alone! My beliefs are just as valid as yours…

Of course the problem here is that everybody becomes a God of their own life, there is no absolute truth and my opinion is just as valid as yours even if you happen to be the pope himself!!

At times I wonder if the same people behave in the same way when they go to a medical doctor?! Do they claim to know everything, to overwrite the doctors prognosis with their own ideas. At times I wonder if they have any fear of God at all or fear of being damned and most of all I wonder how they can live such superficial materialistic lives and somehow appear ‘happy’.

It obviously begs the question ‘what is happy’? Is it surface level joy or is it a deeper inner contentment?

And further, does God really want us to be happy? Surely it depends on how we have defined happy?!!

Personally I believe that true happiness comes from knowing God and doing his will. At times it’s really hard and really challenging and there can be great trials and sufferings but at a very deep level there is a sense of being true to oneself, of rising above selfishness, of having convictions and standing for something.

So next time somebody says to me ‘so long as you are happy’ I might well bite their head off!!!

Peace

18 Sat Jun 2016

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This morning I read about St.Vincent Ferrier. He evangelised all over the world and was known as the ‘angel of justice’. He spoke of heaven and salvation and he spoke of hell. Then suddenly the Holy Spirit gave me an image of candyfloss!!

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The Candyfloss gospel is the gospel that over-emphasises God’s love and does not speak enough about God’s justice. The Candyfloss gospel means that many people say that they love Jesus, and they do, but often their moral lives are not in line with Church teaching. Jesus is presented as being so gentle and kind and caring that He would understand everything they do and doesn’t mind! This gentle Jesus would not want you to over exert yourself or work too hard less you might break a finger nail. This gentle  Jesus likes your expensive clothes and cars and tells you that you deserve them! Gentle Jesus doesn’t speak about sin or hell less He frightens you or hurts your feelings!

Gentle Jesus loves everybody and everybody will be go to heaven. There is no need to take the gospel too seriously. Gentle Jesus is afraid of the state, He won’t speak out against immoral laws or for Justice. He likes to keep the ‘peace’.

Gentle Jesus evangelises schools. He tells the kids how much God loves them. He doesn’t speak boldly and authoritatively about corruption, new age, vanity of academia, sexuality as gentle Jesus is afraid to upset teachers and of being sued. He is a chicken!

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Gentle Jesus is in many religious communities. He won’t speak about deliverance, exorcism or call sin sin. He will not denounce sin publically. He prefers candyfloss. He is afraid of bishops and of being disliked.

Gentle Jesus is an abomination. He is the source of luke warm misguided christians who are His victims.

If you are following Jesus, please, make sure it’s the right one!

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Work out!

17 Fri Jun 2016

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Recently I’ve been going to the gym. Now anybody who knows me knows that I’m not exactly mr muscles or mr fitness but I’m getting into it!

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As I was looking at some of the more dedicated members I couldn’t help but think what would the world be like if people dedicated as much time, effort and money to their spiritual fitness!

The gym costs money, we willingly pay trainers to push us beyond our limits and even to scold us not to mention the amount of time we give to it…..

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If we were as dedicated to growing spiritually we’d surely think nothing of doing a prayer work out every morning, of watching what we ‘eat’ and of going on spiritual retreats and pilgrimages even if they cost a few dollars….

Of course we should look after our bodies too and the gym is good but somehow I feel that many of us are out of balance….mind, body, spirit!

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In Australia I often saw prayer mixed with sport and it was quite inspirational and extremely balanced and healthy. May the Spirit raise up lots of new ministeries that are prayerful and also young, fun, creative and dynamic for the glory of God.

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The Glory of God is man fully alive!

Come Lord Jesus, bless us all today to be fit for you!!

Hell

14 Tue Jun 2016

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And so today I felt inspired to write about hell! We don’t hear much about hell in today’s Church again due to political correctness and this is a grave mistake !

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Jesus died to save us but save us from what?! We’re doing just fine why do we need saving?!!

Well if we don’t know what God is asking of us and if we don’t know what the consequences of disobeying are then it’d be fair to say ‘Jesus, you needn’t have bothered’. Such is the consequence of poor and cowardly Church teaching. So getting back to my topic, what is hell?

Hell is the place of the damned.

It is a physical place in as much as the ressurrected bodies of the damned will stay there for all eternity wailing and screeching in torcherous agony.

It is a place of 100% seperation from God and of agonizing spiritual and physical sufferings. If the demons and people could die they would but God made them immortal.

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There are many layers in hell and different demons live in different areas depending on their level of evil.

The damned will suffer eternally in proportion to the sins on earth that they chose not to repent of.

The suffering of one soul in hell would be greater than all the suffering of all mankind since the start of time because such is the reality of eternity.

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Despite the suffering demons would still rather stay in hell than come back to God if they had a choice (they don’t). Similarly with the damned. It’s a permanent residence!

Some demons are allowed to leave hell and torment us here on earth. This happens especially when we sin as we give them spiritual permission.

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Demons in hell live in constant fear, like living in a bad neighbourhood there is always a more powerful demon to fear.

Satan is the ruler of hell. All demons hate him but they hate God more. Similarly he hates all the demons. Hell operates 100% out of fear and hatred.

God has supreme power over hell and all its demons.

All the saints and visionaries have testified to many souls going to hell but despite this our church leaders today do not think that it is important to mention to us. Let us pray that their ommission doesn’t send them there…

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Fatima prayer ‘O my Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls into heaven, especially those in need of thy mercy’.

Pornography

13 Mon Jun 2016

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I was in an internet cafe today minding my own business when an old man (over 75 I’d say) asked the owner if she had a spare pair of reading glasses. She said she didn’t and so I kindly told him that I could show him how to make the text on screen bigger!

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So I zoom the screen only to see that he was on an escort site and the word ‘masturbation’ was everywhere. He was looking for a ‘massage’!

I was sickened that he wasn’t in the least embarasssed! I’m good friends with the owner who told me that he’s a regular and that usually it’s porn that he watches.

And so you see, porn has become so normal that even the older members of our society are hooked not to mind the young!

Porn destroys marriages, it leads to all sorts of emotional and spiritual problems. It shows and models NO respect for sex, for men or for women. It is an epedemic in today’s society in schools, universities, seminaries….everywhere you have internet.

Porn always leads to more. What people watch one day they may well be doing the next and contrary to what many may think, women are just as likely to be watching it as men.

Of course some people think it’s harmless but this is not our christian teaching. Sexual sin stains the soul like no other and without a life of prayer and a grace filled support network one has no chance of staying pure.

Please pray. Pray for the conversion of this old man before he dies of a heart attack during one of his ‘massages’ and on a more serious note, pray for the world, for our leaders, our polititians and bishops, our teachers and parents and most of all for kids. Lord Jesus in your mercy please do something great to bring people back to you!

Purity

12 Sun Jun 2016

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As I strolled around Galway city after a retreat day I prayed and asked the Lord what he wanted me to write about. Somewhat reluctantly I got the word ‘purity’.

I say reluctantly not because I disagree but rather because of how politically incorrect it is to write or talk about these issues in today’s society and unfortunately even as a Catholic in some corners of the Church.

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Purity is so dear to Jesus because it is linked to the most powerful  part of us, our sexuality which is so special to God. Sex has the potential to give life and as such is extremely special and sacred. To use sexuality in others ways is outside what it was designed for and so outside God’s plan.

That said, in today’s society where sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, pornography etc have all become normal the Lord is extremely merciful and understanding of the battle.

Mercy does not mean that Jesus suddenly doesn’t care, but rather that he gives more grace and never tires of forgiving us in light of a harder battle!

I think that the saddest thing of today’s society is that most kids are no longer even aware that sexual purity is God’s will for His children. From the earliest of ages kids are conditioned by what they see on TV, by what they read in the newsfeeds and by the songs and role models they have. Unfortunately this is 95% sex saturated and God and His ways are laughed at to scorn as old fashioned boring ideals.

Even most of our priests and bishops remain deadly silent in spite of years of seminary training. Sunday sermons no longer teach people of God’s ways and of the seriousness and reality of sin. Confession boxes are empty and people like me are considered old fashioned fanatics!! Thankfully there are many good priests and let’s never stop praying for them.

If you struggle in this area then welcome to being human, now ask God for the grace to take the next step and reach out for help. Much help is out there now with the internet. There are online support groups, counselling, books and much more. Find a good priest or spiritual mentor who will help you and most importantly pray. Jesus loves a strugglers and never ever tires of helping us.

So dare to be cool for Jesus, dare to fight for purity and I guarantee you that the Lord will bless your life in so many other ways! You are not alone!

The realm of prophesy

11 Sat Jun 2016

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Prophesy is one of the gifts that annoys me, not for the gift itself but rather for the misunderstandings around the gift!

Often people wonder how the prophetic person knows this or that and you often hear many debates over whether  the prophet was right or wrong!

Some of it is due to a lack of formation of the prophetic person while others is due to a lack of formation of the people!

Consider the weather forecast, based on winds and clouds and rain patterns the weather can be predicted to some degree, often pretty accurate. However we all know that sometimes they seem to get it wrong! Why? Well for some reason beyond their understanding the winds that were blowing changed direction and so changed everything!

Prophesy can be much the same! The prophetic person often sees the spiritual realm and so can predict what is going to happen if things continue the same. No better example is Our Lady herself who at numerous apparition sites warned of terrible things around the corner IF things continued the same.

In other words, like the weather forecast, it may not happen!

So how do we turn the spiritual winds?! Repentance and prayer! We see this many times in the Bible where negative prophesy was averted because the people repented.

When this happens the prophet can come out looking like the weatherman, an idiot, despite the fact that he was partially correct!

It can also work the other way.  Somebody may have prophesised something positive for you and it never came true…was the prophet a fake? Maybe, but maybe not. The prophesy may have depended on you continuing to live a life of prayer which maybe you gave up on. A talented young man will never be a professional soccer player without training and similarly God’s call for your life will never come to be without perseverance and prayer.

And so you see that much prophesy is not absolute and that we have a big roll to play in either bringing it about if it’s a good thing or in avoiding  it if it’s bad. Sure there are some false prophets out there too and some genuine ones that can make mistakes at times as well but try to pray for them because like the weatherman they are trying to help!

Funny moments in France

01 Wed Jun 2016

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Buying my first french car…a 25 yr old renault….not quite the sportscar I had before but I had great fun driving all over in it!!

My first apartment, I mean room which I was miraculously guided to on one Sunday morning!

Zipping around France in my irish sportscar before I sold it……though at times I used to forget which side of the road to drive on…not to mention speeding fines….sorry God!!

Going to my first mass in France and understanding….absolutely nothing of all this church talk!

Endless hours reading the Bible…book of wisdom  especially

Getting so much holy spirit that I was crying non stop in metros and everywhere…a nurse told me that I should stop in case I’d lose all the salt from my body through tears!!

Roaming around Paris and Lyon alone at all hours….my guardian angel was busy!

Meeting young french catholics….never seen young church goers in Ireland!

Driving a minibus around central Paris, first time being a passenger on a motorbike, driving a truck for a summer with totally messed up gears and me with a messed up head

Learning to serve mass in Latin.

Delicious food I ate all over….very generous with food.

Cooking for the frenchies….that was fun….not!!

Walking around in designer clothes from the rich days but no money….i was a sort ‘classy hippy wanderer’

Staying in absolute dumps of houses at times yet having a laugh

Staying in castles at other times….when you get like 10 knives and forks and you haven’t a clue where to start!

Fun year discerning priesthood in Toulon

Getting chained to a chair for an exorcism

All the homeless and broken people I met…probably the best part of it all really, the faith of the broken.

A month working in l’Arche with the disabled

2 trips to Rome and visiting the vatican headquarters

People forgetting I wasn’t french and losing me in conversation about school….

Visiting monasteries and religious houses everywhere….Lerins was special

3 great months spent with the Benedictin monks in Triors…they were awesome

Begging with some gypsies in Lyon

Flunking an exam in seminary ….it was fun being bottom of the class for a change as my concentration.was all but wiped with the Holy Spirit!

A month with the scouts…little devils nearly killed me!

Giving math grinds to french kids and not having a clue of the french words for math!

My french accent changing every day….german, scottish, swedish, danish, swiss, english….list goes on

All the people I probably terrified talking about demons!

Getting sacked from jobs because my work wasn’t up to scratch…..best say nothing than mention demons tormenting me!

My first prayer vigils and experiences of Jesus in eucharist

100’s of little miracles and big ones

People thinking I might be mad!

Leaving for India and not knowing english words for spiritual things….i still pray the creed in french

First night in Canberra was asked to drive an automatic mazda and again barely knew what side of the road I was on!!

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