News Item: : Ireland Update - 40 Days of Reparation for Life and Faith
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Wednesday 30 May 2018 - 14:40:44

The giant wall sculpture of the Holy Rosary at the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland - A big reminder of the importance of the Rosary in the hearts and hands of Catholics.

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On Friday, the majority of voters in Ireland's Referendum chose to reject God, life and family in favour of abortion. People who had travelled to Dublin to promote the pro-life message had been struck by the prevalence and scale of anger, disrespect, foul language, spitting and anti-Catholic mockery, which they encountered from numerous pro-abortion voters in the city. They also described palpable fear in some of the pro-life voters whom they met; with some people keeping their ''No'' vote secret, for fear of reprisal.

Even people who live out in the more conservative counties have described troubling divisions which have come into their local rural communities; with numbers of people who are still active in Catholic parish life - and going regularly to Holy Communion mind! - advocating for the pro-abortion ''Yes'' vote, with no correction from their local priests whatsoever.  

On Saturday evening, the huge majority, pro-abortion vote was greeted in the grounds of Dublin Castle with what can only be described as a massive and jubilant party atmosphere. As we have already noted, it was very disturbing to watch footage of crowds of people laughing and rejoicing over the acceptance of something so obviously evil and dehumanizing as abortion.

Meanwhile, here in England, also on Saturday evening, there was a vast ''Gay Pride'' march in the city of Birmingham. Tens of thousands of people travelled to the midlands city to take part in the march and the boisterous partying which followed on afterwards.

In the hours that followed, both Ireland and parts of England, experienced violent electrical storms, torrential rain and severe flash flooding. In Birmingham and the Midlands, one whole month's worth of rain fell in just one hour. This caused serious flash-floods and even death. In parts of Ireland, people described witnessing thunder and lightning worse than they had seen in more than three decades of living in the Republic. Mainstream media reported over 15,000 lightning strikes hitting the ground from Dublin to London. Then, just yesterday, another month's worth of torrential rain brought flooding, tree-falls and sewage overflow to London and parts of Kent.

Loss of the Sense of Sin

Even as faithful Catholics prayed in reparation, pro-abortion advocates were out in Ireland taking photographs of the dramatic storm, which was at that time raging over their heads, and scoffing on twitter that God must have been angry about something... Again, in Birmingham, participants in the ''Pride'' march were tweeting that the dangerous weather was not going to spoil their fun.

Following the pro-abortion landslide, Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin Diocese, said on RTE that those who voted ''Yes'' should ''consider'' going to Confession. He also indicated that the decision as to whether such voters should go to Holy Communion without prior repentance and Confession of sins was ''a matter for their personal conscience.'' Knowing Bishop Doran's past record, I doubt if he meant it to sound so limp, but sadly it did.

The fact that Bishop Doran's response is the strongest we have yet seen on the matter from an Irish bishop, is indicative of the dire state of the hierarchy in Ireland.

It is tragic to hear a normally good pro-life bishop responding to such crass, large scale and murderous apostasy as has just been displayed in Ireland, in a way which makes it sound as though being a faithful Catholic and getting to Heaven, or instead becoming a Hell-bound baby-killing nihilist, were merely disparate ''lifestyle choices''.

In a way it seems churlish to criticise Bishop Doran because of his strong and self-sacrificial track record of defending the pre-born and because he looks to have been the only bishop to have, so far, spoken out in the media about ''Yes'' voters going to Confession at all. But even so, being merely asked to ''consider'' going to Confession after breaking God's Holy Law by voting to bring in abortion?!!!

At least Bishop Doran affirmed that he believed that to vote for abortion was a sin.

As if to add insult to injury, that celebrity priest to the stars, the media-friendly Fr. Brian D'arcy, a man who feels himself quite at home giving presentations in the lodges of freemasons, openly said the opposite.

On RTE's Radio One Drivetime, the modernistic Fr. D'Arcy attempted to reduce voting in the Irish Referendum to a matter of private conscience.

So, whilst Bishop Doran made it sound that way about going to Confession, Fr. D'Arcy makes it sound so for the commission of the sin itself. What are these, if not flip sides of the one post-modern approach?

And so, Fr. D'Arcy opined on air to countless Irish viewers, ''I wouldn't like to attribute sin in this matter, at all. It's the wrong language for this, because this isn't an issue about church law at all. This is an issue about how the State is attempting to treat all its people in an emerging way, in an emerging republic, in an emerging world... Each of us is having to struggle to find a way of accepting what is right for yourself, while also allowing what you couldn't allow for yourself to be allowed for others who might view life and its ethics and morality in a different way.''

Such confused wishy-washy gibberish comes straight from the very bowels of Hell. I think we all ought to bless ourselves with Holy Water and pray for Christ's Light after just reading that kind of post-modern, relativistic, non-sensical garbage.

I always remember the late Sr. Doreen in Liverpool reminding me, two decades ago, that the Church teaches that some things are wrong and sinful, because they are wrong and sinful in their very essence. Things are against Church law and teaching, because they are first of all against God's Ten Commandments. 

One priest in Dublin who did tell his people that they should go to Confession if they had voted for death, found his story in the papers. So rare was that kind of orthodox response! May God bless and protect that man.

Everything we have described above, points to the terrible loss of the sense of sin which so typifies the present age. What Evelyn Waugh described as ''our deplorable age''. 

Thanks be to God, all is not lost

Last night a good lady in Ireland sent us an e-mail containing news of a very important initiative happening right now in the Republic of Ireland. We would like to ask all our readers to take part in this and pray and do penance in reparation for what has just happened in Ireland.

The news relates to the excellent Rosary for Life and Faith group and their latest initiative for 40 Days of Reparation for Life and Faith.

It now seems that the Irish Government are pursuing a ''fast track'' to get the new abortion law moving before the summer recess, which is scheduled to commence on 13th July this year.

As you know, this is the anniversary of the date on which Our Lady of Fatima most strongly called for reparation.

As you also know, renewed attempts are now being made to push this abortion travesty onto Northern Ireland too.

And so, even as the politicians at Leinster House and Westminster discuss their plans, Catholics are being invited to respond by actively praying and making reparation.

In light of Our Lady of Fatima's requests for peace to be achieved by living the message of Fatima, and the call that Pope Benedict XVI made to Irish Catholics in the wake of the dreadful clergy sex-abuse scandal, the 40 Days of Reparation for Life and Faith provides a much-needed opportunity for genuine Catholics to do something positive.

Kathy Sinnott's promotion of 40 Days of Reparation for Life and Faith calls people to join in by making reparation for the wrongs done. You can do this by:-

Daily programme of reparation.

Holy Mass and Holy Communion, daily or as frequently as possible.

Holy Rosary every day (as the family Rosary where possible).

Eucharistic Adoration and/or visits to the Blessed Sacrament as frequently as possible.

Confession at least once during the 40 days, but more if possible.

Penance as in Lent. For examples: Fasting on water and bread on Fridays; doing extra prayer, or extra works of charity; giving up things one enjoys like certain foods/drinks/entertainments.

Reading and studying the Sacred Scripture readings from the Sacred Liturgy for each week.

Wearing the Brown Scapular - Putting on Our Lady's uniform.

Praying the daily 6am, noon and 6pm Angelus; and doing this with a visible sign - striking the breast/genuflecting at the key points marking the Incarnation.

Please Join in to Help the Good Catholics of Ireland - Wherever You Are!

Last night we watched another splendid video, which has been uploaded to YouTube by the good and faithful Fr. Marius O'Reilly of Cork. His video gives hope to suffering Catholics and calls all to respond with reparation and prayer, leading up over 40 days to a large Day of Reparation at the Shrine of Knock, to the Most Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, on Friday, 6th July.

Dear readers, the importance of this initiative of the 40 days of reparation and the final day of reparation in Knock cannot be overstated.

Let us do all we can to co-operate with God's grace, prove Who's side we are on, and make reparation for the widespread acceptance of the sin and crime of abortion being imported into Ireland.

Our Lady of Knock - Pray for us!

St. Patrick - Pray for us!

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