Good morning from Medjugorje and wishing you all a happy new year or as the locals say in Croatian a ‘sretna nova godina’.

We arrived in Medjugorje yesterday and the place is very busy.

This time I had a real joy coming! Gospa calls me and nothing else matters!

Upon arrival yesterday I heard Our Lady telling me that she was both happy and sad!

Happy that there are so many people here to pray and yet sad that so many young people all over the world do not know Jesus.

I feel very happy to be here to pray and console her and to allow her to use my life to bring people to Jesus!

Just like the Holy Spirit asked her of many difficult things and just as she had very exceptional blessings, so too did she have exceptional sufferings.

This new year I see her pleading for our ‘yes’ so that she may work through us even more.

She has nobody else but you and me and the youth of today are thirsting for Jesus, they just haven’t met Him yet!

Only through me and you will they meet him!

As a small testimony of encouragement to all I will share about the charismatic community of which I’m a member in Split, the community of David!

We do not have very many young people, actually maybe I’m the youngest but we have a quite a few retired people, especially mothers!

When I shared my testimony at this little community before I knew them every one of them hugged me. Some had never heard of a Catholic gay before and they could have judged me severely but they didn’t!

In fact the opposite, they have been super generous to myself, Seamus and now Toni and if you think about it we are quite an original group! When they call to our apartment we only feel love and acceptance and even Toni who is transgender has only been loved by those who have met him!

One lady brings us shopping at Lidl and pays the entire bill without flinching, another makes us food and brings it to the house, others invite us for coffee and help us financially when they can!

And yet, the most important thing that they have given us is something else! They gave their hearts by building friendships with us through spending time and getting to know us!

Thanks to their help Toni is healing rapidly and so are we all!

These simple people, mostly retired ladies, are useless in the eyes of the world and yet Our Lady is using them so powerfully to bring us healing and hope!

So this new year, no matter what age you are or what your circumstances, God cam still use you through your prayers and heart and you too can become a consoler of Our Lady as she thirsts to reunite the youth with her son!

A special thank you to all the community of David and especially those of you who love and support us so much!

Prayers promised to you all from Medjugorje!

Wishing you every blessing this year

Michael

Hello people!

Strange Title right! Last night I was reflecting on life and the differences between stupid people and intelligent people!

Of course the first question to ask is; what is a stupid person?!

Western society will tell you that a stupid person is the boy or girl no good in school a bit like this little boy here with geeky glasses who is looking for his mammy!!

The intelligent kid gets great results in school and will probably grow up to be a doctor or an accountant or something ‘intelligent’!

After some years he will have stylish clothes and yet the study nerd is still in there somewhat.

I just happened to bump into one such guy this morning at the coffee shop!

Now joking aside I was the smart kid on school! Nobody feels sorry for the smart kid but here are some of the trials of being academically gifted!

– Expectation. You are always expected to get 100%. Everything else is short of your ‘ability and a sort of failure!

– Pressure. You are put under pressure to become a doctor or something just because “brains like yours shouldn’t be wasted”.

– Bullying. Other kids get jealous. You get mocked and teased.

As a smart kid I also thought that I had no right to God’s mercy. He had given me brains and I didn’t qualify for anything else!

The stupid kids qualified, they needed it, and that brings me to the worst disease of all among intelligent people, pride!

So called smart people are often trained by society to become cold heartless pigs with no real love or care for others!

Many of them are very well trained and have first class honours in ‘pig school ‘!

So how does Jesus see these people?

Jesus sees these people as victims! Victims of their own intelligence and of society!

He cries as He sees their stupidity. They have become stupid with intelligence and society has flattered them into believing in it!

Many are emotionally empty and despite all sorts of positive thinking and new age mind motivating techniques are still miserable! They have no lasting peace and what’s worse, they have trained themselves not to look or believe in such things!

And so the Bible says very clearly they what is ‘wise to God is foolishness to men’!

It takes intelligence to recognise that you are a fool and that you always will be because no matter what you accomplish if you cast your eyes to the omniscient creator, you will humbly smile and recognise that you know nothing!

So, the good news today is that if you are intelligent, God has lots of mercy on you because He knows the truth and that is that you are a fool, but His beloved fool and so He wants to help you!

Have a great day fellow fools for Christ!

Good afternoon all!

Last night I was out at a karaoke night. There were a fee excellent acts and one or two not so excellent!

It got me thinking of the music and film industries and how they influence people.

Firstly I must thank God and my mum. For some reason I never had any interest in music or cinema. In my entire life before meeting God I can only recall buying one CD.

Similarly with sport and film. I had no interest whatsoever and could never understand how others could get almost hypnotized by the idea of going to a film or a concert not to mention sports!

Just recently I read something about Stalin and comments he reportedly made on how to control an entire population. He said that if he could control the American motion picture (film and music industry) and at the same time get people so interested in sport and make them indifferent to other issues that he could do it!

When I go to mass and when I look around, there is a generation missing! Yet when I go to a coffee shop with funky music or a sports game, cinema or concert, there they are!

If I speak to most people my age and younger of my life, it’s like speaking to ape’s at the zoo. They are so hypnotized by the culture of pop and success that it’s almost impossible to have a conversation with them.

Arrogantly they laugh at the idea of God and demons, the demons that I may add that I see on them manipulating them and inspiring their ideas like puppets!

And if I’m honest I was like this when I was a child and often mocked my mum for her beliefs!

Why?

Well Stalin seems to be right! If you grow up from the earliest of ages watching movies and listening to pop music then the godless world of sex, drugs and money become not only normal but a source of inspiration!

Coupled with Bishops and priests who have joined Stalin’s point of view selling out Jesus with modernism and thus the utter absence worldwide of powerful preachers and teachers the younger generation have literally been hypnotized by Satan under our very noses!!

And what’s worse, what do most people do about it! A casual “that’s a pity” and life goes on!

Will Jesus be so easily mocked by His own Church?

What will we say to Him on judgement day.

Is it no wonder Our Lady is asking us to pray for our pastors, that they may wake up and smell the roses!

As food for thought I’ll leave you with this video from Britney Spears, pop-princess and inspirational idol for so many of your kids who as Stalin predicated have indeed become brainwashed and stupified despite their university degrees and big egos while organisations such as the illuminati take off where Stalin left to build the “New World Order” right under our very noses in our own homes using the TV’s and other media devices that we have paid for with our hard earned money!

How Satan must laugh at our utter stupidity and how Jesus must weep as His cries for prayer fall on so many deaf ears!

Lord have mercy!

I’m not sure that as Justin Bieber was singing “Let me love you ” that he was singing about Jesus! Nonetheless we can learn something from the words!

This morning I felt sad for a beautiful friend of mine in Ireland. Rejected and left alone by her family for Christmas I could feel her pain and despair!

At times we feel like giving up and yet when this happens Jesus is there all the more!

This year Jesus asked me not to contact anyone in Ireland till after Christmas as a sacrifice of solidarity with the abandoned and the rejected.

At times I noticed in myself and indeed in others these areas of my heart longing for approval from family and longing to belong.

But the reality is that while these feelings are normal and human, they are not very spiritual!

As we grow older families change, we change, our siblings change, our parents change and so it’s delusional to think that somehow we’d all sit around the table like the perfect family!

Growing spiritually is the transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly and the letting go!

We learn to thank God for our origins and families and at the same time we grow a pair of wings and fly away!

God stretches us and He brings us to seek HIM and HIS love and approval above all. He gives us a mission or vocation in life that may have us live in distant lands far from where we grew up!

He gives us new purpose, new strength and new responsibilities.

Some days we moan and groan. The world sees an easier place for people who never grow up! We wonder why God is being so cruel to us while others who don’t say a single prayer seem to be in great form!

But these poor creatures are like birds who have never learnt to fly. They live on the ground and have all the things of this world such as money and cars but their spirits are empty and their souls dead!

And so to my dear friend in Ireland and to anyone else struggling Jesus says

“don’t you give up now, let me love you”

Have a great day!

Mike

Lauren Daigle is a beautiful example of a top class singer not afraid to sing of her love for God.

This song is very powerful. It starts off with the words

“you are not hidden”

and goes onto say that God will “send out an army” to rescue you.

Before listening it is worth casting our minds back to the dad that dug his son out of the rubble of an earthquake after it happened.

At times life’s problems are our earthquakes and we are buried alive. Illnesses, depression, misunderstandings, broken families, additions can bury us alive. We are like the little helpless child and we are wondering if there is anybody coming to get us? Does God hear us? Is he doing anything? Why?

What we don’t know is that God has sent out an ARMY to help us and the army is fighting so hard on the other side!

Yesterday morning I felt a bit like the buried kid myself but at this stage I trust enough in God not to believe the voices inside that try to tell me that there is no hope!

The result indeed was an army from God to help me!

A priest after mass at the hospital kindly gave me 200 kuna (about 30 euro) and when I got home I found a note on my door from our parish priest who invited me for some food and Christmas banter!

Afterwards I returned home to find a turkey cooked and my good friends gathered around the table. Seamus was home from hospital and a special friend Irena came to be with us!

In the evening as I lay in bed I became aware of many angels around me and a supernatural protection all around me and it brought me to tears. After all, who am I to deserve such extraordinary privileges from God?

And so dear friends, the lesson is simple for us all! TRUST!

God sent out an army for me in my life after disaster struck and He has sent out an army for YOU too.

You are not hidden to God, your prayers are not falling on deaf ears. Keep on trusting, keep on believing for sooner or later the army is going to rescue you!

Enjoy this song and keep hoping even in the darkness for both yourself and those disaster cases that you are praying for !

Love you all

Michael

Happy Christmas to you all!

Christmas day has arrived and all our problems have disappeared! Our marriages have been restored, our families have been reconciled, our illnesses have been healed and our dead have come back to life!

All is wonderful and we will all live happily ever after!!

THE END!

Or…take 2

We wake up lonely, sad, disappointed , longing for happiness only to find the cross! Our marriages are still a mess, our families a war zone, our illnesses are getting worse and a longing pain in our hearts for our dead!

Christmas is a time that seems to stir the pot of pain in our lives. It is no surprise that many commit suicide during this period.

I have always found this time of the year hard! I had my first breakdown over 10 years ago at Christmas time. I lay in bed Christmas day and could have died a few days after as my car swerved out of control on the main road to Galway.

This Christmas I am in Croatia. I have been blessed to spend Christmas in many different countries including Ireland, France, India, Australia, Hertzogovena and now Croatia!

I’ve eaten different foods from Turkey in Ireland to fish curry in India to bbq in Australia and have met many wonderful people with their stories of pain and brokeness too.

Maybe our challenge this Christmas is to look out for eachother, to be gentle with ourselves and with others and to spend a little time with Jesus in prayer even if all we do is pour out out broken hearts to Him!

After all, that’s why He came in the first place!

So happy Christmas to you all, happy birthday to Jesus and may He heal and console those areas of our hearts where we feel alone and broken.

Blessings

M

Well friends it’s that time of year again!

Just like 2000 years ago there is a lot of hustle and bustle! It’s Christmas eve and Mary and Joseph are knocking on doors!

They try one door… too busy shopping….

they move to the next….

Hungover after the Christmas party

they move to the next….

Atheists, don’t believe in Jesus

they move to the next….

Too busy cooking

they move to the next….

Too busy with family

they move to the next….

Too busy preparing Christmas Liturgies

they move to the next….

…a poor simple manger, maybe a broken homeless, a poor widow, a rejected gay or a lady in prison, a humble priest, a simple farmer

in the middle of their pain and shame they make a space for Jesus, they welcome him into the manger of their heart, far from perfect for a King….but it’s all they have got!

Jesus smiles, He finds rest in the warmth of their love. He does not look for luxury, He rests His weary head.

Christmas is a time we give gifts. How about we give Jesus a gift; the gift of our time and our love.

Let’s not leave Jesus out in the cold this Christmas, visit Him today in the silence of our hearts where we can console Him and wipe His tears as He waits and weeps for all those who don’t know Him!

Bless you all

Love, prayers, peace and joy this Christmas

Michael

When we go to the doctor and he or she says that if we continue to eat badly that there will be consequence, we thank him!

But when someone says that there will be consequences for praying badly or for refusing to do God’s will, do we say thank you?

The reality is that it is the same God who made the spiritual laws as the physical laws and just as eating well is good for our bodies, praying and following God’s will is good for our souls!

More than once I’ve been accused of manipulating people as I help them to grow in prayer. People simply do not like to be challenged and somehow think that God is all kisses and cuddles!

The real God challenges us greatly. I know a guy in Australia that lives on providence and moves around the world despite having a wife and 5 young kids!

Many say that God would never ask them to do such and such because they are married or have kids and we can understand this way of thinking!

Yet God waits, He waits for willing souls who are willing to give more.

Every time we say the “Our Father” we say “thy will be done”. Do we really mean it?

Disobeying God’s will brings consequences. Our Lady has always taught this from Lourdes to Fatima to Medjugorje.

Some find this hard to accept. A God that punishes you unless He gets what He wants but the reality is the opposite.

When you refuse God you accept Satan and the mystery of free will kicks into place and Satan is only too happy to start wars and bring on every sort of illness in your life!

And what makes it even harder is that God stretches us. His will for our lives is often far beyond what we consider to be reasonable.

Many fool themselves into thinking they are doing God’s will because it sounds reasonable! However if we look at the word “reasonable” we can see that it is made up of two words: “reason” and “able”.

In other words what I am able to do with my reason!

The bad news for us all is that God has more trust and belief in us than we do!!

God believes that you can do big things when you think you can only do small things!

God believes you are able when you believe that you are not!

And so many of you are refusing to do God’s will not because you don’t want to do it but because you don’t think that you are able or because you dismiss His inspirations as being the devil or your imagination!

And so folks, let us look to the saints for inspiration who believed so much in God’s power that they did not allow their weakness to get in the way!

A short video clip! I like to think that this little child is you and I and that the mother is Our Lady!

Love you all

Mike

Christmas is coming and many of you are entering the Holy war! By that I mean the war with your families who often see saying grace before meals as excessive not to mention spending hours in prayer!

Many priests too do not appreciate the true power of prayer. Hence the churches are closed during the day and they are busied by Satan doing all sorts of activities that an ordinary lay peron could do!

As a result, anybody called by Jesus to a more radical prayer life will face much persecution from both family and Church and times like Christmas are times when the battle increases.

Two years ago in Spain a priest told me that I prayed too much. I had suffered a lot that day as Jesus had been showing me souls in purgatory needing prayer. I spoke about it to the priest who told me “not to give a damn about these souls and that it was my imagination” and to get a job!

I was very upset. After 10 years following Jesus I know what is my imagination and what is not!

Yet Jesus allowed this to show me that this priest didn’t give a damn about souls in purgatory or gay people and was full of pride!

Christmas time is a time when many souls in purgatory get released and this angers Satan so much. Sadly Satan often uses your own family and even priests againt you as he gets so angry with your prayers!

Last year I was helping a lazy priest who had almost stopped praying. It was like helping a fat person to get fit. He was moaning and groaning and eventually Satan got the better of him and he gave up! He was expecting prayer to be easy and wasn’t prepared for the cross!

Prayer is demanding! In Medjurorje Our Lady calls people to a lot of prayer and fasting.

If you want to become a good swimmer you must swim too much! If you want to become a good singer you must sing too much and yes, if you want to become a good prayer, you must pray too much!

Many nowadays base spiritual direction on psychologists or psychiatrists opinions. This is a grave mistake as these people have no training in spiritual matters and if they were humble would recognise that!

Never before has prayer been more necessary in the world!

If people tell you that you pray too much and that you are psychologically imbalanced, let me congratulate you and thank you on behalf of Jesus!

These people clearly don’t pray enough or value the importance of prayer and your calling and are spirirually imbalanced!

All the saints were considered crazy and riduculed for their prayer lives!

And so dear prayer friends, prayer is gold, intercession is gold and so if someone tells you this Christmas that you pray too much simply smile and tell them that you wouldn’t have to if they prayed more!!

Hello all!

Christmas is around the corner and we are all preparing both spiritually and practically for the big day!

Who better to prepare us than Our Lady who being the mother of Jesus both freely brought Him into this world and freely gave Him away!

Our Lady is the perfect example of putting God’s will first even when that meant seeing her son dying on a cross.

For those of us eager to grow spiritually we can humbly ask God this Christmas what things we are attached to.

It could be our reputations. We like when others speak well of us and care too much about their opinions!

It could also be material things. When I was in Ireland I knew quite a few very prayerful ladies who liked to direct other people’s lives and yet were married to husbands with very large farms of land. Often I wondered how they’d react if Jesus asked them to sell the land and give the money to the poor! I knew the answer already! It’s one thing to be prayerful from the comfort of a luxurious house and expensive clothes and quite another thing to be prayerful and have nothing!

Many will go to confession this Christmas and they will not think to confess these attachments as sin! You see, they get seduced by Satan into believing that they are ok but yet deep in their hearts they will never have peace!

Mother Theresa once said

“what you can’t give away owns you”.

And so as we prepare for Christmas why not sit down and humbly ask Jesus what it is in our lives that blocks Him from being more alive in us.

The greatest gift we can give Jesus this Christmas is extra space in our hearts and so dear friends, as we empty our wallets let’s not forget the real meaning of Christmas and let’s empty our hearts too!