I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence
Please take care of yourself, Padraig. I think we would all be devastated if anything happened to you. (Honestly, some people will go to any lengths to avoid Lough Derg... )
Padraig are you taking some kind of anticoagulant? Like aspirin or clopridogrel daily? If not please speak to your doctor about this. Take care of yourself. Mary mother of Jesus be a mother to Padraig now. Make no mistake she will do this when you ask. Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. God Bless you.
Wow Padraig I am just reading this now. I hope your health is alright and I will be praying for you. Are you under any stress? That can do alot to the body. Anyway hope you are well!
Padraig we need you--check about the anticoagulant. So. It could save your life. I am praying for you all and please remember my son as he is so irrational I cannot speak to him but the Lord helped me through His grace and I was able to get his 2 kids to confession.hearthbroken but see glimpses of answered prayer for the children. My son is far away. He is dangerous.
I am waiting to go into the hospitals for more tests. But I feel fine. To be honest I hate bothering the Doctors.
Prayers going up. I remember when I was young how hard to put up with I was. They say the punishment of all children is to have children of their own. Prayers going up.
St Therese in her autobiography, 'Story of a Soul', with repeated tales of strings of mostly failures. View attachment 3040 Both parents . Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin were saints and indeed her whole family have been described as a , 'Nest of Saints'. It is not surprising then that the one desire of Therese ..as it should be for every Christian , that she might become her saint. But Therese in her very young life reminds me of a little robot toy car you buy a child you press the button and send it off and reaching the wall of the room it stop banging itself time and time again against the wall, failing and failing and failing to go forward.
This continues right on through until at the age of 15,she enters the Carmel of Liseaux, does a spiritual inventory of her failures and realises that the way she is going will result in more failures. That it is time to go back to the drawing board and take stock. Her stock taking made These realise that she needed to find an 'Elevator' to God, that she was only a very little child. and if she wanted to become a saint the good God was going have to pick her up and carry her! (..and you know I have heard and read many versions of Therese's 'Little Way' or spiritual secret but this in a nut shell, its my belief is the Little Way. You are not going to make it by your own effort. It's grace, grace grace. Inasmuch as we depend on ourselves we are going to go into freefall ..as Therese did. Inasmuch as we become little and let Jesus lift us we will succeed..or rather God will succeed ..for you know only God is holy ..and the saint is the one who simply lets God's light shine through. 1 Samuel 2:2 Hannah's Prayer of Thanksgiving 1Then Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the LORD; My horn is exalted in the LORD, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation. 2"There is no one holy like the LORD, Indeed, there is no one besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God. 3"Boast no more so very proudly, Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth; For the LORD is a God of knowledge, And with Him actions are weighed.… View attachment 3041
But you may well ask, 'What has this to do with a Spirituality of the Body?' Well I'll tell you that tomorrow. I felt St Therese so close while I was writing of her there, they are never far away and take an interest in all our little goings on.
Hi Padraig Maybe you are suffering from a broken heart. Grief does that. The body takes on the emotions and the emotions take on the body. In my first lecture as a student of osteopathy many years ago our Irish lecturer began, "when someone comes to you for help remember that person is body, mind and spirit. This is what you treat." I met an old osteopath many years later who could identify emotions in the body by the feel of the tissue. He identified grief buried deep in my gut for 40 years. I had volunteered to be a model for his class not really believing in his ability. As soon as he identified it I burst into tears infront of my disturbed colleagues. In my clinic I have treated blockages and imbalances of emotional origin in the body many times. I too have collapsed twice and been admitted but all tests negative. I have survived. I am sitting infront of Our Lady of Akita at the window of our foyer in church that looks on to the tabernacle listening to choir practise. Just said my rosary with you in mind. You'll be right. Not a professional opinion so go bother your doctor.
I think Joe may be on to something. During the past week I found myself suffering a perculiar kind of sadness. In prayer I'm finding I'm going into tears. I don't know what the cause is and the Lord is not giving me any clues, I believe its possibly a combination of things. Padraig you are around my age and I have a single brother who is 18 months younger than me, so around your age too. I was hoping you could find time to pray for him, he is in need of Gods graces, as he seems to be lost and has been for years. He has not been to Mass or confession since he was a young teenager so probably near 40 years ago. My mum is a daily communicant, and many prayers have been prayed for him. I am hoping you may recieve a word. I just realised that you, may very well be suffering, by taking on too many sufferings and problems of others. So I will understand either way. Mary mother of Jesus be a mother to Padraig now and a mother to all those in my pryers and to all on the MOG forum. God bless you and keep you Padraig, you are much needed and loved.
Every day in my morning prayers I ask God to bless my patients. This often heightens my awareness of their condition. Recently this has manifested itself by my recognition of facts untold such as miscarriage and loss of children. I may ask a lady how many children she has and sometimes just the tone of her response prompts me to ask if she has lost one. I have never been wrong. This awareness reassures my patient. If I can be this aware how much more so our Heavenly Mother of all our circumstance and needs. I remember one young woman who had suffered chronic constipation for 16 years. I felt something other than physical factors were at play. Towards the end of treatment (it's always at the end) it came out that she had given up a child at birth for adoption but she had never let go. She began to howl and weep as it all came out. She let go and as far as I know has never suffered constipation since. Let go and let God.
I don't like "hangin out" with Docs & Hospitals either ... Cheer-Up! ... you ain't goin' anywhere 'cause Ya got lots of work to do .. See!!?? It's just those crappy Irish genes we got! At age 56 .. 9 years ago ... I spent an unpleasant 30+ hours in critical care 'cause my old ticker decided to go into "overdrive" ... So ... the Doc might give Ya some Beta Blockers or blood pressure pills .... Take Them .... Fish/Flax Oil and .......................... ;-) GOD BLESS AND HEAL ALL HERE!!!
...he realsied that the spirituality of the Ealry Christians is not necessarily the spiritulality of the modern Catholic. It is a bit like putting the spare part of another make or automobile into your own machine..the thing just won't go. Nicely put Padraig. We are given so much in the deposit or faith but it all has to personalized by us, and owned by us - our faith, our relationship with God...
Only just read about your ill-health - Hope you are ok but I like Crew Dogs response - and Adoremus'! Recently I started using the Laudete app on my phone to listen to the daily readings. I also has a daily meditaion by Benedict XVI - an audio produced by St Luke Productions - and its fab. This next quote is from one of this weeks meditations and really struck me, and is relevant to your post: Christian sacrifice does not consist in a giving of what God would not have without us but in our becoming totally receptive and letting ourselves be completely taken over by him. Letting God act on us – that is Christian sacrifice. Benedict XVI (b. 1927): Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, pp. 281-283; a longer extract from this passage can be read at the excellent Eclectic Orthodoxy.
Praying for your brother through the day. I think so many souls are going to hell at the moment. Imagine how many will die and go to hell today! Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? God asks for souls to suffer a little to save them.
That must be considered a 'spiritual chastisement'. And perhaps the reason why there will be an illumination - to re-orient the world.
