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Ars 

30 Mon Jan 2017

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You may have heard or the cure of Ars, now a Saint and the patron Saint of parish priests. Anyway Ars is about half an hour from Lyon and so I often visit it when I’m in the area.  This time I took some photos thinking of those who may not be able to visit.. 

    One arrives in a very small French village. If you did not know that this was Ars you may well think that you are in the totally wrong place. To their credit they managed to build an underground basilica totally hidden, thus preserving the village feeling. 

    Next we meet the Saint… 

    Who invites us to visit his house… 

    They have kept it as it was,  a simple kitchen 

    His bedroom 

    One is immediately taken by the simplicity and one senses the presence of God,  a peace beyond human understanding is there. 

    Another bedroom where the saint slept when he arrived in Ars 

    We then can move to the Church where His body is exposed.  Say a little prayer,  he’ll hear you from wherever you are… Even if it’s Cork!! 

    Again inside they have kept the original simplicity.  A priest is available for confession and close by there is perpetual adoration and the divine office is recited.  




    Ars is definitely a little treasure.  For €20 return one can easily make a day trip for Lyon.  It is quiet,  peaceful,  prayerfu and oozing with history! 

    Peace!! 

    The joy of Evangelisation 

    26 Thu Jan 2017

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    I’ve always found a great contrast between Evangelisation ministry and healing ministry!  Often in the healing ministry I meet people who have been going to Church for years,  who have degrees and qualifications that I don’t have, people who love Jesus for far longer than I’ve known him,  people who pray….. Many times I feel like Mr Bean,  bluffing my way through it all and it somehow working out… 

    And then God sends me evangelising and I meet people who don’t know  God in the same way, tattoos,  funny haircuts with funny colours that remind me of the coloured sheep the neighbours had when I was a child,  piercings and rings that bring back my woodwork days  and yet behind it all some of the nicest most interesting people who simply haven’t encountered Jesus yet. People I dare say that if they met Him would do a far better job with all this spiritual stuff than me! 

    Yesterday brought its own share of such meetings!  When quietly sipping my tea in a busy Lyonnaise coffee shop a little boy of African decent sat beside me…. I felt like Mr Bean on that episode when he cuts a little boys hair as Mum dashes out to run a few errands .  A few minutes later his Dad came along who asked me if I could watch him for a few minutes as he went shopping!  So here I now was officially babysitting this little fella.  He told me he was 9 and that he was watching you-tube. A multitude of thoughts crossed my mind….is this a scam,  what if Dad doesn’t come back…… And that haircut!! 

    About ten minutes later Dad did come back with a pair of shoes for his little man before bringing him back to mum’s house…. Maybe the couple had split.  I didn’t say much but just quietly prayed for them before they left thanking me. 

    Afterwards I felt God say to me that Evangelisation isn’t about throwing bibles at people or annoying them with religious debates but rather by just being. It surprised me also the trust of this man to ask me to babysit, some may say even irresponsible and what touched me the most was that little pair of shoes. 

    We are called to loving others and to meeting all sorts of people. I for one prefer the safety of sitting in Church where everyone will agree with me and where we can pray for sinners without getting to know them or their stories but God likes to send me out,  after all who better to understand the power of God to work in messed up lives than myself and the utter chaos that God pulled me out of and into!! 
    Today,  let’s not fear getting to know and befriend people who don’t share our beliefs because they too are as much our brothers and sisters as our friends on the pews and often God will teach us so much through them such as  gratitude, love,  respect and the limitless borders of His mercy.  We also remember that God loves us not because we go to Church,  not because we are better than them, nope,  he loves us because he loves us. Free love!! 

    Spiritual indigestion!! 

    18 Wed Jan 2017

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    Ever overeat and feel sick the next day?  Until such time as your body has properly digested what it ate it’s not able for more..  🤔

    Now consider this principle for prayer.  You go to a mass or healing service.  You are praying for the grace to be reconciled with that person.  You go home and you do nothing and shortly afterwards your prayer life feels sluggish, no consolations,  God is distant… Why? 🙁

    • Well just like the food,  until such time as you have digested and made use of the grace that God gave you (in this case maybe picking up the phone and reconciling)  your spirit isn’t actually able to receive more graces! It hasn’t digested what it got so either it works it through or vomits it back up by getting angry at God and giving up instead of giving thanks! 


    This is why we need to be constantly praying for wisdom so that we can co-operate with God’s grace and so keep spiritually healthy. This is why Jesus speaks so much of the importance of doing God’s will. 

    Fortunately God is very patient.  Ever see a mother feeding a little baby and the amount of times the baby spits out the food and then the mother tries again and again and again…… In God’s eyes you and I are that little child that at times struggles to eat our daily bread 🍞 God will never give up trying to feed us as long as we keep on trying to eat (prayer). 

    Holy Spirit, help me co-operate with you so that your love and power can be fully active in my life.  Correct me where I’m doing my own will rather than yours. Help me to submit every life  decision to you. Fill me with great faith like you gave Mary when she said ‘be it done unto me according to your word’. Help me to laugh along the way and to enjoy the fun of your ways which seem silly to the world 🌍 

    God’s banking on your prayer! 

    08 Sun Jan 2017

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    Suppose you won the lottery and the winnings were placed in your account. All you need to do is withdraw the money as you need it with your bank card! 

    In the spiritual world it is exactly this!  When Jesus gave His life for us we effectively did win the lottery!  We became inheritors of his glory,  the kingdom of heaven opened to us and graces beyond belief became accessible to us. 

    However,  just like the money we need to withdraw them. In the world of the spirit our bank card is our tongue! 

    With the tongue we pray! The PIN code is humility.  Humility to ask God for help,  humility to ask God for direction, humility to believe in God’s power, humility to submit and become like a little child! 

    If one does not pray one is like a homeless lottery winner who lost his bank card!  He is left to his own devices rummaging the bins scraping to get by. 

    Of course there are others who pray but they have the wrong PIN code.  Humility got replaced by pride.  They ‘pray’ to the God of their imagination and demons are only too happy to answer their prayers!  These are like the lottery winner who foolishly squanders away his money and finds himself depressed and  bankrupt 5 years later! 

    Let’s be like the wise lottery winner, bring what you won freely  (your life)  to the greatest investment consultant of all,  Jesus.  Give Him your life and say ‘Lord,  invest me as you see fit’! Take the reigns! 

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