Following The Shepherds Voice

Homosexualities - Rev. Mario Bergner (Anglican Pri...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:22:00 +0000

Agnus Dei : Homosexualities - Rev. Mario Bergner (Anglican Pri...: With all the recent controversy regarding the Divine Mercy Conference and Fr. Timothy Radcliffe O.P. and his views on homosexuality, I th...

New Confraternity for Catholic Clergy formed in Ireland

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:51:00 +0000

I am delighted to hear that a Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (who wish to remain faithful to the Church and its teachings) has been set up in Ireland by Fr. Gerard Deighan. This was established during a meeting of Priests in Knock Shrine in October last. This Confraternity would offer mutual support and encouragement for Priests.

I do hope in the future that they would also consider a lay associate membership similar to the Confraternity in Australia, to help support and pray for Priests and not interfere with their Priestly ministry. We really have too much clericalisation of the laity in Ireland and it is destroying Parish life, interfering with the ministry of Priests and also discouraging Vocations.

Let us pray for Fr. Gerard Deighan and those Priests involved in the new Confraternity and ask Our Lord and Our Lady, the Mother of all Priests to bless and protect and to bring forth great fruit from this new apostolate.

Bishops, Priests and Deacons can join this Confraternity also. Any Priest or Deacon who wishes to join or if you wish to enquire more about the Confraternity you can email them at ccceire@gmail.com.

Agnus Dei : Holding Fast to Christ in the Midst of Doubts and ...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:19:00 +0000

Agnus Dei : Holding Fast to Christ in the Midst of Doubts and ...: I can honestly thank God for my own sufferings small as they are, because they help me to fasten to Christ alone. Because He is my stren...

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks speaks on Persecuted Christians in the Middle East - House of Lords

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:09:00 +0000

Church leaders confront "virtual reality"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:31:00 +0000

Video from: Catholic News Service - Church Leaders confront "Virtual Reality"

The Eucharist - Jesus is With us: From Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to 49th Eucharisti...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:14:00 +0000

The Eucharist - Jesus is With us: From Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to 49th Eucharisti...: The Eucharist Is Not a Meal Among Friends POPE BENEDICT XVI Here is a translation of the homily Benedict XVI gave via satellite Su...

Thoughts from Dissident Catholic Writers on Catholic Websites ?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:27:00 +0000

Agnus Dei : Thoughts from Dissident Catholic Writers on Cathol...: Despite the vast treasury of Saints and their writings and wisdom, the innumerable documents from the Church, the Holy Bible itself, the C...

Dissenting Catholics send letter to Pope Francis demanding major changes to Church

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:53:00 +0000

Agnus Dei : Dissenting Catholics send letter to Pope Francis d...: From Protect the Pope blog: Catholic Church Reform have organised a letter to be sent to Pope Francis, based on an initiative of Rober...

A Path to Healing a Nation - New Book by Frances Hogan (Highly Recommended)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:52:00 +0000

Agnus Dei - Pastoral Work of our Papal Nuncio and Irish Bishops: A Path to Healing a Nation - New Book by Frances H...: New Book by Frances Hogan (Highly Recommended) 'A Path to Healing a Nation'. Below is just a small paragraph from a very inte...

Syrian Nun says Footage of alleged Chemical Attack in Syria is fabricated

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:07:00 +0000

There is proof the footage of the alleged chemical attack in Syria was fabricated, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, told RT. She says she is about to submit her findings to the UN.

Mother Agnes, a catholic nun, who has been living in Syria for 20 years and has been reporting actively on what has been going on in the war-ravaged country, says she carefully studied the video featuring allegedly victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Guta in August and now questions its authenticity.

In her interview with RT, Mother Agnes doubts so much footage could have been taken in so little time, and asks where parents of the supposedly dead children are. She promises to send her report to the UN.

The nun is indignant with the world media for apparently turning a blind eye to the Latakia massacre by rebel extremists, which left 500 civilians including women and children dead.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has called on the international community to pay attention to revelations made by Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib.

Above from and continued here: UCA News - Syrian Nun says chemical gas attack footage is fraudulent

For more on the Latakia Massacre go here: Syria News - Latakia Massacre

Shocking News in Germany - Police ram their way into Parents Home and forcibly remove their Children because they were being homeschooled !

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:29:00 +0000

In Darmstadt, Germany, police officers armed with guns and a battering ram stormed a home and seized four children because the family living there had defied a national ban on homeschooling. The officers were accompanied by a throng of social workers and special agents.

The terrifying team of about 20 government officials forcibly removed all four of the family’s children at around breakfast time on Thursday morning, according to a press release from the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA).

The sole reason for the brutal abduction of the children is that the parents, Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, have defied the German government’s ban on home education. There are no claims of mistreatment or neglect.

Above from: Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/31/the-perils-of-homeschooling-german-police-storm-home-seize-four-children/#ixzz2duzULkhj

Please pray for them.

Pope Francis appoints New Secretary of State

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:26:00 +0000

Agnus Dei - Pastoral Work of our Papal Nuncio and Irish Bishops: Pope Francis appoints New Secretary of State: Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Pietro Parolin as his Secretary of State. The 58-year-old Italian archbishop replaces Cardinal...

Agnus Dei - Pastoral Work of our Papal Nuncio and Irish Bishops: Novena for Vocations to the Priesthood & Religious...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:49:00 +0000

Agnus Dei - Pastoral Work of our Papal Nuncio and Irish Bishops: Novena for Vocations to the Priesthood & Religious...: Perhaps we can start a Novena for holy Vocations to the Priesthood & Religious Life for Ireland. It will start 30th August, and end on...

Agnus Dei - Pastoral Work of our Papal Nuncio and Irish Bishops: Twenty new seminarians to commence Priesthood stud...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:06:00 +0000

Agnus Dei - Pastoral Work of our Papal Nuncio and Irish Bishops: Twenty new seminarians to commence Priesthood stud...: Twenty new seminarians to commence priesthood studies at Saint Patrick’s College Maynooth “ … have the courage to go against the tide ...

No Gestation Limits in legislation on abortion opens the door to this.........

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:27:00 +0000

This is the horror of abortion and what goes on throughout the world.
It is horrific and sickening to the core. It is unbelievable that Doctors and Counsellors can sit
discussing the termination of a babys life in such cold terms. What have we humans become.
Its beyond belief.

Abhorrent Irish Legislation on abortion has no gestational limits

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:41:00 +0000

DUBLIN, May 2, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Irish pro-life groups have slammed the government for

presenting draft legislation that ignores expert “medical evidence” that abortion is no cure for suicidal ideation and allows the direct killing of Irish children.

The coalition government’s bill was released to the public yesterday and includes no restrictions on gestational age limits, allowing abortions to be carried out through all nine months of pregnancy.

The draft legislation says it is not an offense to take action “as a result of which unborn human life is ended.” Under the current law, it is possible for a doctor to induce early labor if it is medically warranted to save the mother’s life, but they are required to give equal consideration to the life of both mother and child. The new bill will allow doctors to act directly to end the life of the child, based only on a demand for abortion, backed up by a threat of suicide.

Above from:

LifeSite News - Irish abortion bill would allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy

Former minister of State for primary care Róisín Shortall has said she finds “abhorrent” the lack of gestational time limits in proposed abortion legislation within which terminations should be allowed in cases where the woman is suicidal.

Ms Shortall, who has lost the Labour Party whip, called for a referendum on the matter to be held in October.

“I think I would speak for the majority of people in saying I would find the absence of a gestational time limit abhorrent,” she said

Above from: Irish Times - Lack of abortion Bill gestation limit abhorrent, says Shortall

"180" The Movie

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:06:00 +0000

Graphic Images...viewer discretion.

Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration Today on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi in union with Pope Francis

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:52:00 +0000

Massive One Million Rally against Gay Marriage in Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 27 May 2013 11:08:00 +0000

An estimated one million people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to demonstrate against France's new same-sex marriage legislation. The law, which allows same-sex partners to wed and adopt, had already been in effect for over a week. President François Hollande signed it into law on May 18.

Black pastors demand broader probe after Kermit Gosnell abortion trial - Washington Times

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:23:00 +0000

Black pastors demand broader probe after Kermit Gosnell abortion trial - Washington Times

Abortion Holocaust and the Media Blackout on Gosnell - Warning...graphic Content

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:55:00 +0000

Healing and Wholeness in Christ Jesus

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:46:00 +0000

Due to the huge interest in Healing in our Church, and the amount of strange healing philosophies out there I decided to research more into this area and have started a blog on this subject. I try to show where people can go to receive Healing and also those places and things to avoid...

Go to Blog: Healing and Wholeness in Christ Jesus

Deliverance Ministries - They are not for everyone and are Dangerous

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:00 +0000

Deliverance ministries are very common now especially in the Charismatic Renewal. I would say that people should stay clear of those who are not acting alongside the Church with a spiritual director Priest.

It is highly irresponsible and dangerous for people especially for those with emotional problems to start praying deliverance prayers themselves or with others. You cannot enter a deliverance ministry yourself without proper authority and guidance. And if you have emotional problems you should definitely not be dabbling in this.

Please be careful and go and ask the advice of a good and holy Priest, one who is wise in these areas. It is important to remember that we have the Sacraments but somehow we have lost faith in the power of them. Open your whole heart in Confession, go regularly even every week if you have to. Receive Jesus Christ in Holy Communion and pray to Him in Adoration. Learn to praise God in everything. Pray to forgive all those who hurt you and also for forgiveness towards yourself. Pray to Our Lady.

Just a note on a lady called Betty Brennan who was a former satanist and who returned to her Catholic faith through the Sacraments of the Church. She puts her whole emphasis on the power of the Sacraments, and not on having deliverance prayers. That is coming from someone who was directly involved with the occult. I attach a link to her testimony here: Betty Brennan Former satanist becomes Catholic

Homily of Pope Benedict XVI (now Pope Emeritus) from Holy Thursday 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:05:00 +0000

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

Holy Thursday is not only the day of the institution of the Most Holy Eucharist, whose splendour bathes all else and in some ways draws it to itself. To Holy Thursday also belongs the dark night of the Mount of Olives, to which Jesus goes with his disciples; the solitude and abandonment of Jesus, who in prayer goes forth to encounter the darkness of death; the betrayal of Judas, Jesus’ arrest and his denial by Peter; his indictment before the Sanhedrin and his being handed over to the Gentiles, to Pilate. Let us try at this hour to understand more deeply something of these events, for in them the mystery of our redemption takes place.
Jesus goes forth into the night. Night signifies lack of communication, a situation where people do not see one another. It is a symbol of incomprehension, of the obscuring of truth. It is the place where evil, which has to hide before the light, can grow. Jesus himself is light and truth, communication, purity and goodness. He enters into the night. Night is ultimately a symbol of death, the definitive loss of fellowship and life. Jesus enters into the night in order to overcome it and to inaugurate the new Day of God in the history of humanity.

On the way, he sang with his Apostles Israel’s psalms of liberation and redemption, which evoked the first Passover in Egypt, the night of liberation. Now he goes, as was his custom, to pray in solitude and, as Son, to speak with the Father. But, unusually, he wants to have close to him three disciples: Peter, James and John. These are the three who had experienced his Transfiguration – when the light of God’s glory shone through his human figure – and had seen him standing between the Law and the Prophets, between Moses and Elijah. They had heard him speaking to both of them about his “exodus” to Jerusalem. Jesus’ exodus to Jerusalem – how mysterious are these words! Israel’s exodus from Egypt had been the event of escape and

liberation for God’s People. What would be the form taken by the exodus of Jesus, in whom the meaning of that historic drama was to be definitively fulfilled?

The disciples were now witnessing the first stage of that exodus – the utter abasement which was nonetheless the essential step of the going forth to the freedom and new life which was the goal of the exodus. The disciples, whom Jesus wanted to have close to him as an element of human support in that hour of extreme distress, quickly fell asleep. Yet they heard some fragments of the words of Jesus’ prayer and they witnessed his way of acting. Both were deeply impressed on their hearts and they transmitted them to Christians for all time. Jesus called God “Abba”. The word means – as they add – “Father”. Yet it is not the usual form of the word “father”, but rather a children’s word – an affectionate name which one would not have dared to use in speaking to God. It is the language of the one who is truly a “child”, the Son of the Father, the one who is conscious of being in communion with God, in deepest union with him.

If we ask ourselves what is most characteristic of the figure of Jesus in the Gospels, we have to say that it is his relationship with God. He is constantly in communion with God. Being with the Father is the core of his personality. Through Christ we know God truly. “No one has ever seen God”, says Saint John. The one “who is close to the Father’s heart … has made him known” (1:18). Now we know God as he truly is. He is Father, and this in an absolute goodness to which we can entrust ourselves. The evangelist Mark, who has preserved the memories of Saint Peter, relates that Jesus, after calling God “Abba”, went on to say: “Everything is possible for you. You can do all things” (cf. 14:36). The one who is Goodness is at the same time Power; he is all-powerful. Power is goodness and goodness is power. We can learn this trust from Jesus’ prayer on the Mount of Olives.

Before reflecting on the content of Jesus’ petition, we must still consider what the evangelists tell us about Jesus’ posture during his prayer. Matthew and Mark tell us that he “threw himself on the ground” (Mt 26:39; cf. Mk 14:35), thus assuming a posture of complete submission, as is preserved in the Roman liturgy of Good Friday. Luke, on the other hand, tells us that Jesus prayed on his knees. In the Acts of the Apostles, Mount of Olives. When menaced by the power of evil, as they kneel, they are upright before the world, while as sons and daughters, they kneel before the Father. Before God’s glory we Christians kneel and acknowledge his divinity; by this posture we also express our confidence that he will prevail.

Jesus struggles with the Father. He struggles with himself. And he struggles for us. He experiences anguish before the power of death. First and foremost this is simply the dread natural to every living creature in the face of death. In Jesus, however, something more is at work. His gaze peers deeper, into the nights of evil. He sees the filthy flood of all the lies and all the disgrace which he will encounter in that chalice from which he must drink. His is the dread of one who is completely pure and holy as he sees the entire flood of this world’s evil bursting upon him. He also sees me, and he prays for me. This moment of Jesus’ mortal anguish is thus an essential part of the process of redemption. Consequently, the Letter to the Hebrews describes the struggle of Jesus on the Mount of Olives as a priestly event. In this prayer of Jesus, pervaded by mortal anguish, the Lord performs the office of a priest: he takes upon himself the sins of humanity, of us all, and he brings us before the Father.

Lastly, we must also pay attention to the content of Jesus’ prayer on the Mount of Olives. Jesus says: 14:36). The natural will of the man Jesus recoils in fear before the enormity of the matter. He asks to be spared. Yet as the Son, he places this human will into the Father’s will: not I, but you. In this way he transformed the stance of Adam, the primordial human sin, and thus heals humanity. The stance of Adam was: not what you, O God, have desired; rather, I myself want to be a god. This pride is the real essence of sin. We think we are free and truly ourselves only if we follow our own will. God appears as the opposite of our freedom. We need to be free of him – so we think – and only then will we be free.

“Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me; yet not what I want, but what you want” (Mk

he speaks of the saints praying on their knees: Stephen during his stoning, Peter at the raising of someone who had died, Paul on his way to martyrdom. In this way Luke has sketched a brief history of prayer on one’s knees in the early Church. Christians, in kneeling, enter into Jesus’ prayer on the

This is the fundamental rebellion present throughout history and the fundamental lie which perverts life. When human beings set themselves against God, they set themselves against the truth of their own being and consequently do not become free, but alienated from themselves. We are free only if we stand in the truth of our being, if we are united to God. Then we become truly “like God” – not by resisting God, eliminating him, or denying him. In his anguished prayer on the Mount of Olives, Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom, and opened the path to freedom. Let us ask the Lord to draw us into this “yes” to God’s will, and in this way to make us truly free. Amen.

Habemus Papam

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:20:00 +0000

Our new Holy Father, Pope Francis. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Jesuit, 76 years old has become the new Vicar of Christ this evening 13th March 2013. A man of deep humility and simplicity asked for prayers for Benedict XVI and prayer for himself as he now takes on this heavy Cross to lead the Catholic Church in these most turbulent times. As he asked for prayers for himself, a great silence descended on the whole of St. Peters. It was so emotional, a beautiful moment. We pray for our Holy Father and we continue to pray also for Benedict XVI. May the Lord bless and protect them both.

Let us also be watchful and discerning and keep our eyes always on the Lord and remember the True Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist and the Sacredness and Beauty of the Holy Mass and the beauty of the Vocation to the Priesthood. Let us pray for all our Priests, Bishops and Cardinals also at this time of change. The Lord is in charge and He will look after us always. Jesus Divine Mercy, Mary Mother of the Church, protect us and our Holy Father and all the Church at this time. Holy Saints and Martyrs pray for us. St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church pray for us. Let us be greatly vigilant in prayer in the days ahead and prepare well for this Divine Mercy on April 7th 2013.