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Post by hibernicus on May 10, 2012 13:08:22 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on May 13, 2012 17:31:09 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 1, 2012 19:43:17 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Fr John L O'Sullivan CSSp, once a missionary in Nigeria and in his old age a celebrant of the EF MAss at St Peter and Paul's in Cork City. His death is recorded in the current CATHOLIC VOICE.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 26, 2012 20:33:56 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Eugene Moloney, killed early on Sunday morning in Camden Street a short distance from St Kevin's.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 26, 2012 20:37:19 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 12, 2012 14:19:49 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of John J Reilly, Catholic blogger and cultural historian, whose work has been referenced many times on this board: joetexx.livejournal.com/4307.html
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 22, 2012 20:55:04 GMT
Your prayers are requested for Padraig O Bruadair, formerly a regular attender at the Dublin TLM, who has had a stroke.
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Post by loughcrew on Jul 23, 2012 11:43:24 GMT
I am keeping in mind the plight of Syrian Christians in my prayers lately.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 8, 2012 20:21:29 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Mena Bean Ui Chribin, who has died. Her newspaper obituaries are busily rehearsing some of her recent mistakes and disputes. Perhaps I can offer a more balanced picture. I didn't know her, but I know people who did. Like their role-models in the BBC in the same period, the RTE liberals staged debate between "tradition" and "modernity" in such a way as to present "traditionalists" as provincial, eccentric, outdated, inarticulate - Frank Hall's Mothers of Seven - and "progressives" as cool, hip, go-ahead. For the BBC, Mary Whitehouse was cast in the "dotty provincial reactionary" role; for RTE it was Bean Ui Chribin - in both cases because they were willing to speak out for what others lacked confidence to say, and because they lacked the self-consciousness and polish that would have enabled them to evade the traps the interviewers and presenters set for them. Oddly enough, the most sympathetic portrayal of her I have ever seen is in an early-1970s book called THE PERMISSIVE SOCIETY IN IRELAND by Emer O'Kelly, the TV journalist who now writes a bitter atheist column in the SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. O'Kelly's book mostly consists of interviews with anonymous subjects - unmarried mothers, a homosexual, a woman who went to England for an abortion, with the explicit suggestion that Irish society was more sexually permissive than it realised and the implicit suggestion that it should change its laws and attitudes accordingly. O'Kelly interviewed Bean Ui Chribin and her husband Gus as token traditionalists, and she remarks directly that she was struck by how deeply they loved and trusted each other after many years facing the challenges of married life. It was that love and trust that underlay her crusades. It was that love and trust which she wanted to extend across Ireland. It was that love and trust and hope which was betrayed by con-artists who took advantage of her desire to help and dragged her reputation in the mud - from the malevolent cult known as the Palmarian Catholic Church, which sucked her in for a time with its gleaming facade of a 'purified' church and an 'angelic true Pope', and from which she extracted herself at considerable emotional and other costs, to the criminal parents in the Roscommon incest case who convinced her they were just a poor family facing up to hard times and being victimised by social workers. I would not agree with many of her political views, but her heart was in the right place. She was faithful when so many fell away; as was once said of a famous American Protestant fundamentalist, she stood up at Armageddon and fought for the Lord. May she rest in peace. Remember her and her family in your prayers.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 9, 2012 21:01:35 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 9, 2012 21:03:09 GMT
I was at the reception of Bean Ui Cribin's coffin at St Kevin's this evening. There was a large attendance and several beautiful Irish-language hymns of her own composition were sung. Her Requiem Mass is in St Kevin's tomorrow at 11 am.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 16, 2012 13:14:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2012 22:38:25 GMT
I came across a comment on Shane's blog last week and contacted the writer. I already take part in a prayer drive from a group called Opus Sanctorum Angelorum where they will assign you a named priest, seminarian or bishop for whom you pray daily. I was hoping to find such a group in Ireland and now I have. I received the following information from the new Irish group; "We started the Apostolate in December 2008 and since then we have nearly 3000 people praying every day for 400 Seminarians worldwide.Each person adopts a named Seminarian in daily prayer.For some time I had been disappointed by the lack of Prayer among some of our Priests and felt that unless the Seminarians become men of Prayer our Priests will not. If our Priests lose this sense of Prayer it will lead inevitably to a loss of a sense of sin. Seminarians told me that things were not good in our national Seminary in Maynooth. The slippages were inordinately high so I concluded our Seminarians needed to be protected.They also needed to receive special Gifts of the Holy Spirit. I approached 5 Vocational Directors, 2 Secular and 3 Religious and they concluded the Seminarians needed to receive Gifts of Prayer, Purity, Perseverance, Discernment and Filial love (love for the Bride of Christ, the Church).I felt that in addition they (we) needed to be transformed like Christ at the Transfiguration so that they(we) might reflect in their(our) lives the Light of Christ, hence the recitation of the 4th Luminous Mystery every day.Like Moses coming down from Mt Sinai when his face reflected the Radiance of God they(we) too must place Adoration to the forefront of their(our) lives of prayer and now we can adore Jesus' Real Presence veiled before us (them) so I felt inspired (by EWTN) to use the Scripture 2Cor3:18 "We with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord all grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into the image that we reflect." On a personal note I find this a most uplifting piece of Scripture. Its all about Prayer, Adoration, the Mass-Heaven on earth.I felt that Mary, Mother of the Church should be their Protector and that St Aloyisius Gonzaga the Patron of Youth should be their inspiration as he had spent himself as a seminarian by working for the poor,those in need of comfort who are reflections of Christ.We should attend and offer one Mass per week for our Seminarian.Finally they should be protected by St Michael the Archangel Prayer every day and when we think of him he may need our prayer, so say St Michael the Archangel protect him.This is a double form of Evangelization, the person being prayed for and the person praying. If the Seminarian leaves he needs praying for more than ever. When he is ordained we continue praying for him.Please put it into your Parish newsletter.We need help as there is an amount of administration to be done as we gather the names of the seminarians both secular and religious, keep in touch with Vocation Directors and liaise with Prayer Groups and associates of religious. We also have to keep in contact with other countries until they can stand on their own.I am willing to talk at gatherings of people to spread the Apostolate."End. They can be contacted at prayer4seminarians@gmail.com. I remember a few years ago when I did some postgrad work in Maynooth I couldn't find my way, as per usual, and a lovely dote of a seminarian managed to get me even more lost than before but along the way we had a great chat. I still see his face, so earnest, asking me to pray for him and the others. To my shame I haven't done that, I pray for priests but not them. That was wrong of me. Anyway I asked if I could put the information about the group here and I was given permission. I urge readers to contact him and get a name and pray for that seminarian, not all of us are parents here but we can be spiritual mothers and fathers to these men and pray for their vocation and God's will to be done. Again it's prayer4seminarians@gmail.com for the Irish group. For the priests/bishops/seminarians worldwide, a different crowd altogether from the writer cited above it's www.opusangelorum.org/crusade/crusade_adoption/crusade_adoption_dw.html
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2012 0:19:31 GMT
No way! Are you serious? They sent me a prayer card with a bishop's name on it and some information on the importance of praying for priests. That's about it, nothing to raise my hackles. I googled them there and the other members of the board mentioned naming angels or some other stupid things that people do. If anyone has any more information then please do tell. Thanks for the warning Young Ireland.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Sept 13, 2012 15:32:59 GMT
Youngireland is serious alright. Certain conditions were imposed on Opus Angelorum. I will elaborate later. Personally, I would tend to avoid them. Just in general, prayers are fine as long as they don't use names for angels or demons whose only source is private revelation as opposed to Scripture or tradition.
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