“I come to tell you that they suffer in Purgatory, that they weep, and that they demand with urgent cries the help of your prayers and your good works. I seem to hear them crying from the depths of those fires which devour them: ‘Tell our loved ones, tell our children, tell all our relatives...
FIRST DAY Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who bore on your body the signs of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, you took the Cross to the ends of the world while enduring the physical and moral sufferings that scourged your body in a continuous martyrdom. We beg you to pray to God for...
By Ciaran Brennan Dublin Catholics successfully mobilised last week to call a halt to the flying of the Pride flag outsidethe Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Ballyfermot. Significant controversy was generatedamong the faithful following the raising of the flag earlier by the parish council, a move subsequentlydefended by Fr Aidan Egan at...
Our spiritual life is the life of grace within us; through it we become children of God. For our spiritual life to be preserved and to develop, a series of actions are required that constitute the life of piety. How must that life of piety be? What deviations must be avoided? These are the problems...
By Catholic Arena The entire world is currently aghast at the almost year long ban on public Mass in Ireland. That ban has now been extended to include even outdoor Confessions, with Drew Harris’s Gardai now offering people the opportunity to confess their problems to them on public benches instead. Groups of 15 can now...
