We have a thread here called "Garabandal News" , for info & questions. This video might help fill in some of the gaps of information. http://www.garabandal.us/the-message/
Monsignor, if my memory serves me correctly, it was a small church in a small town called Georgetown.
Welcome Monsignor!! It is great to have a priest on the forum to help us in our own discernment. I guess we need to be on better behavior now. It is one thing to upset our Mother but when I was growing up I feared that just hand of my father much more than my mother when I acted up
Monsignor, perhaps you could answer me a question I posed a while back. What is the norm for altar wine? Is it that it contain only wine from grapes (no other fruity flavors etc...)? It is a preperation I want to make if in the event I can provide assistance to a priest in the times ahead (and if all else fails I might have a sip or two with my wife).
That would be St. Michael the Archangel. Yes, it is small but not a beach parish. The Thanks for the video - very helpful!
To start off with altar wine is a separate category of wine with a higher alcohol content. Altar wine is 16-18% alcohol while table wine is in the range of 10-12%. I think the higher alcohol level of altar wine was for the sake of preserving the wine over time. Many churches order altar wine for a whole year at a time while table wine would not keep so well. The norm is that it be made from grapes.
Monsignor could you please pray For my son who is addicted , talking crazy and is many miles away. His wife and kids are here with me. I am actually scared of him. I have consecrated them to the immaculate heart of Mary and pray the Rosary and other prayers since a long time. I can do no more as he is off the wall. I am so sad to be afraid of my son. he is a different person. he may be mentally ill but won't get help. please pray for him-- I am only able to help with prayer. he is seemingly mmanic
RoryRory, I too will pray for your son through the Flame of Love of Mary. It is a heavey cross to have a loved one in this way, but it is consoling to know that the Flame of Love can and will do what we cannot.
RoryRory - sorry to hear of this suffering you and your family are enduring. We will pray for your son's healing and for all of your family. Peace.
Welcome Monsignor! I have just found this website also, along with Charlie Johnston's and Deacon John Martinez. With you here I am just over the moon! We have with us a chosen son of Jesus! Thank you, Monsignor for your consecrated life. You have blessed us all with your presence. I, personally cannot thank you enough. I know I am gushing but I always feel so blessed with a priest in my midst.
RoryRory, what a heart breaking situation you are in. I want to share with you a prayer I found in the Handbook of Devotion to Divine Mercy which Jesus tells St Faustina that (on pg 44) He will grant great graces to a soul who recites the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. There is also a prayer pn pg 74 Prayer For the Release of a Loved One From Alcohol or Drug Addiction Through the Divine Mercy and Blood of Jesus. I will begin a novena with this prayer for you starting tonite. Hang on to Jesus, don't dispair but trust in Him who loves you and yours so very much.
Rory Rory; I lived through a similar experience when my children were small. Having the responsibility of children was actually a blessing - it prevented me from falling apart. I used to tell myself, "I have to be O.K., so they will be O.K." It was terrible suffering, but I've never felt so solidly in the hand of the Father. What a gift faith is in such a trial! You and your family are in my prayers and my heart.
Praying the emergency Novena for your son now (This is nine Memorarae's, one after the other. Never fails.). Stay strong and don't be fearful of anyone. Keep telling Our Lady how much you love your son. I will be praying all day for him today and offering up my own trials for his complete healing.
Hi Rory, if it is any consolation I went through the nightmare of addiction myself personally. By the time I was 22 I had been admitted to psychiatric hospital three times for long periods and was chronically addicted to alcohol and drugs and was very unstable as a result which caused much suffering to my parents and friends. Fortunately God intervened in what can only be described as a total miracle and I haven't drank or used drugs in nearly 7 years and today I have a beautiful and fulfilling life which continues to get better. I believe it was down to the many prayers my mother said to God and Our Lady for me the many nights she thought she was going to get a phone call saying I was dead.
Wow. Thanks for sharing this Sanctus - gives us all hope for the ones we love who are addicted. May God richly bless you and all of your family through the grace of unity.
Thank you. It just goes to show there is hope for those in addiction. I truly believed I was a hopeless case.
I will certainly pray for your son and your whole family. Mary, keep them in your immaculate heart. ta
