The message to the visionaries of Medjugorje was to pray and
fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. We are told to pray for peace.Religiosity is under attack by the atheistic world and, in particular, by psychiatry and
the BBC. At a medical level, fasting (from some items of food) for those who are diabetics or who suffer
from mental unrest is a very healthy and positive
experience. The latter problems lead to premature mental exhaustion and can be a cause of serious spiritual and moral malaise and social maladjustment. Water and fasting
greatly alleviate mental distress as has been known since time immemorial.
The ancient Irish method of fasting was De Cheadaoin (Wednesday), the first day of fasting, De
Dheardaoin (Thursday), the second day of fasting and De hAoine (Friday), the last
day of fasting.
Our Lady has always called at Knock, Fatima
and Medjugorje for prayers for peace. She has chosen to appear in a country
whose former Communist doctors found the visionaries “healthy”.
Would this be the case in England with its proliferation of
psychiatric prison hospitals and plethora of social workers and medical mafiosi?
In the North of Ireland
every Evangelical Tom, Dick and Harry is given an airing on Radio Ulster while the
Catholic Church remains the church of the overwhelming majority of the church
going population.
During the marching season,the Church is systematically denigrated and degraded when Mass is in progress.On the streets the most appalling provocations, coat
trailing and disruption of Catholic Mass by semi-fascist, paramilitary style
organizations is tolerated by the police and DUP/Sinn Fein politicians.
In the North of Ireland,there seems to be a preferential option for
Protestantism and Unionism.
Prayer?
Peace has come to pass in international affairs through the power
of prayer. In 1955 due to the prayers of the Blue Army which involved some one
tenth of Austria’s
population, the Soviets withdrew peacefully.
Atheist cults? The rejection of the reflective life? Hedonism?
We must always remember in our prayers for peace that when we do not pause for reflection, anger
leads to bitterness, bitterness congeals into hatred, hatred putrefies into fear and fear leads to emotional paralysis.
Some "demons can only be driven out by prayer",let us remember.
War?War?War?
Pray the Rosary for peace.
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Prayer
It is very important to pray at Mass. If you are imperilled and are a person of faith,pray the Rosary and particularly the Memorare. Pray with as much fervour and sincerity as you can muster.
The people who tried to crush the Christian faith in Ireland are long dead but their effigy lives on here and in other countries where you hear militant atheist rhetoric and see the spoliation and desecration of churches or have to listen to bowdlerised songs and prayers such as my vulgar recitation parts of The Creed,the Memorare,the Prayer for Protection and the Prayer to Saint Michael, the incantations as in that American odyssey from my lips,the 'play' of 1988.
It goes without saying that the prayers do not run "turn thy nyes of mercy towards us" but rather "turn thine eyes of mercy towards us". That epic began a long descent into madness for me. My family and family patterns of speech I also satirised in that 'American' epic.
A curse was laid on myself for many years thereafter for mocking The Most High and Virgin Incarnate.
Don't lipsync with me,my belle esprites, rather go to church and experience the joy of the gospel and endeavour to follow a path of Christian love and worship from the heart,not the lips.
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"A priest who doesn't believe in the power of prayer, particularly the Rosary and the intercessionary powers of the Virgin Mary, doesn't believe in anything and will end up doubting the Divinity of Christ and the value of the Gospels and the importance of speaking up for the poor and oppressed. He will eventually end up believing in nothing like many of them do and go into a nursing home or other long-stay accommodation for the elderly. Pray the Rosary,therefore."
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