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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Feb 26, 2023 20:01:01 GMT
You might remember Kieron Wood who died last night after a lengthy illness.
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 2, 2023 21:57:55 GMT
Sorry to hear it - will pray for him.
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Post by paschal on Mar 20, 2023 10:49:01 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 18, 2023 21:21:34 GMT
For a friend of mine who is undergoing an operation tomorrow
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 26, 2023 21:46:15 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Sinead O'Connor, who has died. Mother of Mercy, intercede for her.
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 26, 2023 22:38:25 GMT
Your prayers are requested for Mr Stephen Termini, the tourist who came here trusting in Irish hospitality and was so viciously attacked, and to all those endangered by crime.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Feb 1, 2024 14:42:46 GMT
A friend of mine has had a viral infection which has attacked his central nervous system and he's asked for prayers.
Let him have them.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 16, 2024 0:15:27 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of John Bruton. We may disagree with much that he said and did, but it is noteworthy that the Politics.ie thread on his death includes several attacks on him for his defence of unborn life.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Mar 14, 2024 16:06:48 GMT
Your prayers are requested for Father William Richardson, who assists in the Dublin Latin Mass Chaplaincy. He is in hospital with stage 4 cancer.
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Post by Devotus Immaculatae on Apr 28, 2024 10:20:51 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the peaceful repose of the soul of Jim Browne of Mayo. Jim's inspiring journey from a life marked by alcoholism to a profound spiritual transformation touched the lives of many. Through his heartfelt talks on his conversion, delivered across Ireland and abroad, Jim's powerful testimony served as a powerful hope and inspiration for countless numbers of people. Gifted with a profound spirituality, he fearlessly spoke from the heart of Jesus Christ and His redeeming power.
"I said 'St. Anthony, I thought you were all about car keys and invoices and the fiver I didn't know where I'd left... now I know what your job is: you found me Jesus' ."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2024 20:21:00 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the peaceful repose of the soul of Jim Browne of Mayo. Jim's inspiring journey from a life marked by alcoholism to a profound spiritual transformation touched the lives of many. Through his heartfelt talks on his conversion, delivered across Ireland and abroad, Jim's powerful testimony served as a powerful hope and inspiration for countless numbers of people. Gifted with a profound spirituality, he fearlessly spoke from the heart of Jesus Christ and His redeeming power. "I said 'St. Anthony, I thought you were all about car keys and invoices and the fiver I didn't know where I'd left... now I know what your job is: you found me Jesus' ." Thanks for sharing -- I hadn't heard of Jim Browne and enjoyed the conversation he had with Fr. Brendan.
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Post by Devotus Immaculatae on May 1, 2024 15:49:48 GMT
Thanks for sharing -- I hadn't heard of Jim Browne and enjoyed the conversation he had with Fr. Brendan. Jim's lesson he always tried to get across to us is that if only we would continually seek Christ's will and then do whatever is possible for Jesus, big or small, in our hearts, our homes and our communities, he will then take care of the impossible. Yet all we continually focus on is what others have done, or are doing or not doing, and all the reasons that we can't do such and such for Jesus, instead of the things we can do for him.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2024 4:35:14 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the peaceful repose of the soul of Jim Browne of Mayo. Jim's inspiring journey from a life marked by alcoholism to a profound spiritual transformation touched the lives of many. Through his heartfelt talks on his conversion, delivered across Ireland and abroad, Jim's powerful testimony served as a powerful hope and inspiration for countless numbers of people. Gifted with a profound spirituality, he fearlessly spoke from the heart of Jesus Christ and His redeeming power. "I said 'St. Anthony, I thought you were all about car keys and invoices and the fiver I didn't know where I'd left... now I know what your job is: you found me Jesus' ." I have been thinking about Jim Browne's story for the past few days, and I listened to Fr. Pereira's homily, as well. It is somewhat of a tangential point, but I am struck at how good people were to Jim, before his conversion (and of course after a terrible childhood when people were not good to him at all). I'm thinking primarily about his business relationships. He was clearly good at what he did -- selling shoes. But I don't think that accounts for all the kindness people showed him. He was offered a first chance by the shopkeeper in Westport, despite his school trouble. When he started his own business and it all went downhill, in part due to his drinking, he was offered help by others in the business. A competitor even offered him a shoe line and wanted nothing in return. He just knew Jim was at rock bottom, or even lower. When Jim tried to repay his creditors the full amount he owed them, all refused except one, who would accept only £500. Am I reading too much into this? This kind of graciousness in business seems unimaginable today (whether in Ireland or elsewhere), and I have to think it had something to do with a pre-Celtic Tiger culture in Ireland -- perhaps confined to the west of Ireland. The competitor was obviously a devout Catholic, inviting Jim to pray the rosary with his wife and friends. It makes me wonder if there was an ingrained Catholic culture in Ireland, with respect to work and money and a right relationship with both. I can think of other examples, unrelated to Jim Browne, but this is not the place to share them. This kind of post is not what this thread is for, but I couldn't help but remark on it. Where would Jim have ended up without all these people pulling him up from rock bottom?
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Post by annie on May 3, 2024 19:48:11 GMT
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Post by Devotus Immaculatae on May 5, 2024 16:29:16 GMT
I have been thinking about Jim Browne's story for the past few days, and I listened to Fr. Pereira's homily, as well. It is somewhat of a tangential point, but I am struck at how good people were to Jim, before his conversion (and of course after a terrible childhood when people were not good to him at all). I'm thinking primarily about his business relationships. He was clearly good at what he did -- selling shoes. But I don't think that accounts for all the kindness people showed him. He was offered a first chance by the shopkeeper in Westport, despite his school trouble. When he started his own business and it all went downhill, in part due to his drinking, he was offered help by others in the business. A competitor even offered him a shoe line and wanted nothing in return. He just knew Jim was at rock bottom, or even lower. When Jim tried to repay his creditors the full amount he owed them, all refused except one, who would accept only £500. Am I reading too much into this? This kind of graciousness in business seems unimaginable today (whether in Ireland or elsewhere), and I have to think it had something to do with a pre-Celtic Tiger culture in Ireland -- perhaps confined to the west of Ireland. The competitor was obviously a devout Catholic, inviting Jim to pray the rosary with his wife and friends. It makes me wonder if there was an ingrained Catholic culture in Ireland, with respect to work and money and a right relationship with both. I can think of other examples, unrelated to Jim Browne, but this is not the place to share them. This kind of post is not what this thread is for, but I couldn't help but remark on it. Where would Jim have ended up without all these people pulling him up from rock bottom? Sales and alcohol often went hand in hand in that era. Deals were often done in the pubs and hotel bars, but there always only a limited amount of money going around and therefore a limited amount of money to be made. There was therefore often time for spending an hour talking to someone on the street, helping someone else, and for faith. Complete material "Success" consisted of having a steady local job, usually for life, an ordinary house and enough to keep a wife and children, and the icing on the cake was being able to afford a car. This was achievable for many, if not in Ireland, then in the UK / USA / Australia. Material "Success" is now seen as none of these things being enough, and few of them are as achievable as they were in the west. Now the rat race and materialism are all consuming, and there is now absolutely unlimited quantities of money being made available for anything that is "politically correct" from Covid style restrictions to NGOism to mass immigration and engineered permanent societal, spiritual, and demographic change in the west. I'm glad I'm not a young person today. They have so much more than us in every way, yet so little by comparison. But like today, we didn't know what we had, when we had it. We live today in a very over developed, spoiled and material society, and I don't mean that in a climate change type way. I sound like the stereotypical older person, if it’s any consolation, it wasn’t all good then, I can assure you. I guess even nostalgia is not as good as it used to be . Some things were worse, some things were better. I suppose some things never change, i.e. we don't know and appreciate what we do have, until we don't have it anymore. On topic - Jim was a fine raconteur, a lost art now, and Jim in his way, discovered and very powerfully conveyed, by word and deed, that timelessly, whatever era or circumstances we live through, Jesus Christ is the only answer, the only way, the only light, and the absolute necessity of genuinely getting him into our hearts, and therefore our homes, and therefore our societies. May Jim rest in peace, and may his talks and encouragement live on.
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