News Item: : The Most Holy Trinity - Ireland - Prayers
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Sunday 27 May 2018 - 22:48:32

Like many of you, the dreadful  outcome of the Irish referendum has plagued our thoughts here throughout this weekend.

Today's Feast of the Holy Trinity has been especially poignant in light of our remembrances of the preamble to the Irish Constitution; which had been enhanced by the provision of the pro-life protections of the 8th Amendment in 1983.

Let's just recall that preamble for a moment:-

In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and states must be referred, We, the people of Eire, Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, Who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial, Gratefully remembering their heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of our Nation, And seeking to promote the common good, with due observance of Prudence, Justice and Charity, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured, true social order attained, the unity of our nation restored, and concord established with other nations, Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this constitution.

This preamble must be borne in mind as the backdrop to the disturbing statements of Ireland's homosexualist Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who suggested that the rejection of the 8th Amendment will be remembered, ''as the day Ireland stepped out from under the last of our shadows and into the light. The day we came of age as a country. The day we took our place among the nations of the world.''

How forgetful such words are of the fact that Ireland was, for many centuries, a veritable light to the nations through the sending of missionaries throughout Europe and, later on, across the whole world.

To those faithful Irish people who had voted to protect the 8th Amendment, Varadkar suggested that he would like to assure them that Ireland was still the same place as it was before, ''just a little more tolerant, open and respectful.''

In these words we witness one who, tragically, describes darkness as light, and the murder of innocent babies in the womb as ''tolerance, openness and respect.''

This is a frightening example of a phenomenon that, in all truth, is not only Orwellian, but also testifies to the deep spiritual darkness of these times.

It is to be lamented that, today, Ireland is being led by people who not only deliberately choose the Culture of Death, even to the point of celebrating it with a wild party-like atmosphere, but add to this evil choice and vacuity with the kind of euphemistic rhetoric which frighteningly attempts to depict darkness as light.

Compared to such as these puppets of the Soros-promoted New World Order, Eamon de Valera and his ilk, with all of their strengths, faults and great love for Ireland, appear as historical giants, who once strode the cultural, religious and political scene.

Today in Ireland, there are countless good and faithful souls who did what they could to protect and promote Ireland's pro-life laws.

We are blessed to know one or two of them.

As they were in the wake of the referendum of 2015, these people are again suffering deep lacerations in their hearts and souls today. We ask you to please keep them in your prayers going forward.

The preamble to the Irish Constitution, and indeed today's great Feast day, remind us that the Most Holy Trinity is the Heart and Centre of everything that is. Of all the doctrines and truths of the Catholic Faith, this is the centre, source and foundation.

As the Traditional Missal teaches, ''We see in the Holy Trinity the mystery of the eternal life of the Divine Being, Knowledge and Love. We should adore, bless and thank the Holy and Undivided Trinity, on which all depend, from which all truth, goodness and beauty proceed.''

13th June, 1929: In the convent chapel at Tuy in Spain, Sr. Lucia of Fatima received the vision of the Blessed Trinity and Our Lady. It was during this apparition that Our Lady asked for the all-important Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart; something which Heaven still awaits.

The Most Holy Trinity is an Eternal Communion of Divine Love. This is the very essence of what it means to say God is Love.

Make no mistake, although the preamble to the Irish Constitution cannot be effaced from history, the rejection of the 8th Amendment, and of the countless pre-born innocents who will now be destroyed in the Republic of Ireland, is fundamentally a rejection of God and His Love.

To refuse such love will not do anyone any good. It is madness to turn away from the Triune God; the Almighty God Who made us to know, love and serve Him in this life, and be happy with Him forever in the next.

As the priest preached at the Traditional Latin Mass which we attended today: as Christians who love the Most Holy Trinity, we must show that love to our neighbour; especially to the most vulnerable and weak, who need our protection. At this point, having already spoken out in his sermon against the repealing of Ireland's 8th Amendment, the good priest especially highlighted the innocent babies in the womb.

To celebrate the Feast of the Trinity, to lift the spirits of our readers and to call sinners back to repentance before the loving Triune God on this day, let us conclude with some words from the writings of that great Carmelite nun, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity.

Oh My God, Trinity Whom I Adore

Oh my God, Trinity Whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely that I may be established in You as still and as peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing trouble my peace or make me leave You, O my Unchanging One, but may each minute carry me further into the depths of Your Mystery. Give peace to my soul; make it Your heaven, Your beloved dwelling place. May I never leave You there alone but be wholly present, my faith wholly vigilant, wholly adoring, and wholly surrendered to Your creative Action.

O my Beloved Christ, crucified by love, I wish to be a bride for Your Heart; I wish to cover You with glory; I wish to love You... even to dying of it! But I feel my weakness, and I ask You ''to clothe me with Yourself,'' to identify my soul with all the movements of Your soul, to overwhelm me, to possess me, to substitute Yourself for me that my life may be but a radiance of Your Life. Come into me as Adorer, as Restorer, as Saviour.

O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life listening to You, to become wholly teachable that I may learn all from You. Then, through all nights, all voids, all helplessness, I want to gaze on You always and remain in Your great light. O my Beloved Star, so fascinate me that I may not withdraw from Your radiance.

O consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, come upon me, and create in my soul a kind of incarnation of the Word: that I may be another humanity for Him in which He can renew His whole Mystery. And You, O Father, bend lovingly over Your poor little creature; ''cover her with Your shadow,'' seeing in her only the ''Beloved in whom You are well pleased.''

O my Three, my All, my Beatitude, Infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose myself, I surrender myself to You as Your prey. Bury Yourself in me that I may bury myself in You until I depart to contemplate in Your light the abyss of Your greatness.''

It is my prayer this night at the conclusion of the Feast of the Holy Trinity 2018, that these words will bring comfort, deeper conversion and peace to all who read them; especially to those in Ireland who have fought for the preservation of Ireland's pro-life laws and future innocent babies.

May God's peace be with you this night and restore You in His Love.

It is only in living deeply and interiorly in communion with the Most Holy Trinity that Catholics in these grave times will be able to accomplish the Divine Will and also to defend the Culture of Life.

Keep the Faith!

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

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