Theology of the Body 2nd International Sympsoium on the Theology of the Body in Maynooth College Ireland June 11th to 14th 2009. See this page for more details: Theology of the Body

Friday the 19th of June this year is the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and that Feast was also made the annual that World day of Prayer for Priests but this year because we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Saint John Vianney the great Patron Saint of Priests Pope Benedict XVI has made it the start of World Year of Prayer for Priests so please do and try to take on some daily prayer for our Priests. You can find some prayers on the Sacred Heart page of this site. Without Priests we not have the Blessed Sacrament, Confession, Anointing of the sick or Confirmation. We are in great debt to our Priests.

Prodical son, Recession and Swine Flu!

Hopefully we will not have a Swine Flu pandemic in the world and we all need to ask God to spare us from such a disaster. When the Recession became the news topic several months ago i could not but feel that the western world is like the prodical son Jesus spoke about in His tremendous parable (Luke 15:11-32), in which the prodical son went off to a foreign land to spend his newly acquired great wealth in a life of sin and debauchery and then that land experienced a famine. The western world is experiencing a sort of famine now and only God knows the true level of sin which is increasing even more now with pornography more available to everyone than before on the internet. The internet is a great gift from God but as usual mankind corrupts the gifts God gives us. It was only when the Prodical son reached rock bottom and longed to feed himself with the husks the swine were eating that he came to his senses and decided to return to his loving, forgiving and healing Father. So maybe it is not just a coincidence that the world is under the threat of a swine flu because the western world as an immense community has gone far from the path of God.

God is LOVE, God is unconditional LOVE!

God even loves the devil! We know this is true because the devil still exists! The most profound words any being can ever say are "I am" or simply "I exist!" and the worst words that could ever be said about anyone are "He or she no longer exists". So the fact that God continues to sustain the devil in existence for eternity proves that God loves him. God would never take back the gift of existence from any intelligent being and no intelligent being would ever want to not exist. God loves the devil but the devil rejected God and so God in His mercy created a place where he can still exist but not experience God's love for him. And by God's fairness or justice the devil is punished for all the evil he has done and continues to do.
God will probably recreate all the living creatures He has ever created on this planet because death only came into the world through sin so all creatures were created for eternal life in the beginning!

   FISH
All the oceans are not in the little fish!
No; the little fish is in the Ocean!
So also God is not just somewhere in Creation!
Creation is somewhere in God! (like a tiny drop of water in the ocean!!!)
BUT 2000 years ago it was as if the Oceans entered a little Fish because God became the man Jesus Christ!
Then 33 years later at three o'clock on Good Friday an OCEAN of MERCY BURST from HIS HEART on the CROSS when He died for the WHOLE WORLD!
The early Christians (who were very persecuted) used the symbol of a "Fish" as a symbol of their Christianity (for example on their gravestones) because the Greek word for "Fish" is "ICHTHUS"
and the letters of this word can be used to say "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Saviour" : Iesous (Jesus) CHristos (Christ) THeou (God) Uiou (Son) Soter (Saviour).
Fish do not go with the Flow! (Only dead ones do!)
REAL Christians swim against the Tide or the river of the world! They are Pro–Life, Pro–Goodness and PRO–GOD!!! and
some still do not eat meat but instead eat Fish on Good Friday! and others do this on all Fridays of the year!
The first Apostles were Fishermen of "Men" and the Church is like a big Fishing Boat which is steered by Peter's successor the Pope, trawling the waves of the World for souls.
Hop on–board if you are not Catholic!!!
Every day at Catholic Mass or Eucharist it is as if the Ocean becomes a Fish
because Jesus the God–Man becomes present under the appearance of Bread and Wine on the Altar.

One God
We know there is ONLY ONE God in existence because HE is so BIG so there is no room in all eternal existence for any other Gods! HE is the source and support of all existence

NEW EVANGELISATION
The "NEW EVANGELISATION" is about a PERSON, It is about JESUS the "DIVINE MERCY"

Saint Faustina wrote in her Diary one day: "Jesus looked at me and said, Souls perish in spite of My bitter Passion. I am giving them the last hope of salvation; that is, the Feast of My Mercy. If they will not adore My mercy, they will perish for all eternity. Secretary of My mercy, write, tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My justice, is near." (© Diary of St Faustina, 965) Jesus complained to St Faustina one day ( See her Diary paragraph no: 1396 ) " Oh, if sinners knew My Mercy they would not perish in such great numbers."