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OUR LADY OF LOURDES ALWAYS PULLS STRINGS FOR ME AT LOURDES 😊

I have had the immense privilege of leading 28 pilgrimages to Lourdes.

Most of those happened when I was still part of the RC apparatus.

But I’ve had several since I parted ways with the Roman Empire Mk 11.

I love Lourdes and God and Our Lady have always looked after ne there.

As a very young priest I had the opportunity of celebrating the daily Mass in English as thete were no bishops there and the older priests were too nervous to be the main celebrant.

Apart from leading my own pilgrimage I always tried to spend 6 hours a day in the English confessional.

In the confessional I saw hundreds of little spiritual and emotional “miracles”. People left burdens in Lourdes they had carried for years or decades.

OUR LADY PROMOTES ME AS A BISHOP.

On one of those pilgrimages since my departure from the empire, I led a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

I was very careful not to offend or push myself on anyone.

One day we attended the afternoon Blessing of the Sick in the massive underground basilica.

I simply took my place among the laity with my pilgrims.

The sacristan came out and asked me to move to the clergy section and I did.

Then the sacristan came back out and said:/”Thete is only onenother bishop here yoday – a French bishop. He asks that you join him in the sacristy for the Blessing of the Sick. I went.

Thank God he could not speak English and I could not speak French. It avoided an awkward conversation 😇

He and I then proceeded to.preside over the formal Lourdes afternoon Blessing of the Sick.

It was not only witnessed in the basilica but was also broadcast all over screens in Lourdes.

It happened that the Diocese of Ferns were in Lourdes being led by Bishop Eamon Walsh.

Walsh

Walsh and the Ferns clergy were furious and reported the incident to the local bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes.

As a result my party and I were banned from every RC property in Lourdes.

But I was very pleased to have my approval as a bishop from Our Lady

We were quite happy afterwards to have our Masses in a hotel function room.

I was forbidden to enter the grotto area and my photograph was circulated to all the Lourdes security officers.

But I could access God and Our Lady at least as easily in my hotel as I could at the grotto.

I was very pleased to see Our Lady getting one over on the hierarchs and clerics who I’m sure she regards as being like the Pharisees who rejected and tortured her own Son.

Many of the current hierarchs and clerics are the Neo Pharisees 😪

160 replies on “OUR LADY OF LOURDES ALWAYS PULLS STRINGS FOR ME AT LOURDES 😊”

How vile that they should ban you from the grotto. They wouldn’t do that to a female Anglican Bishop. So much for ecumenism. Walsh a vicious old queen who will no doubt spend a long time in purgatory.

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“I simply took my place among the laity with my pilgrims.”
Bishop Pat fulfils the advice in the Bible; “But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’”
“The sacristan came out and asked me to move to the clergy section and I did.”
Oh Bishop Pat came to their aid! Oh Bishop Pat made haste to help them!
“I was very pleased to have my approval as a bishop from Our Lady”
Jesus said; “Do not stop him. For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.”

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Yes you’re absolutely right Seamus. The laity are the lowest of the low and should be treated as such.

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Shammy boy, aren’t you going to answer 7.23? He or she makes an excellent point about your subliminal regard for lay people: about how you TRULY think of them.
Are you a priest, Shammy? Because your condescension here makes the assumption of priesthood rather a blatantly obvious one.

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No, Seamus. You say that a place among the laity is the lowest place.
‘my place among the laity […] the lowest place’.
If you didn’t mean that I suggest you retract it and apologize, because your comment is offensive and redolent of outrageous clericalism.

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I don’t think lay people would be amused by you thinking of them in such a disrespectful way, Seamus.

If you have such issues about yourself, that’s one thing, but don’t project them onto everyone else. That’s bad manners.

Are you man enough to apologise for your disrespect, Seamus? Or is lacking balls another of your issues?

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I think Seamus gets a buzz from people thinking he is a priest. Is he really that inadequate?

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Anon 12:47, some people get a buzz from twisting things more like.
Bishop Pat fulfilled the Bible text perfectly. It is rather amusing how some were so upset by it!

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Seamus has answered my question that I asked below for me. Just common manners would incline a person caught out in making such an offensive comment about lay people to apologise and/or say that’s not what they meant, when challenged. What kind of person would accuse someone challenging him of twisting? A troll. He’s a troll looking to stir up trouble pure and simple. I suggest we don’t engage him again because outrage feeds trolls.

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Complete nonsense Anon 3:03. Bishop Pat was called forward from the crowd. It was beautiful fulfilment of the Bible scripture. Absolutely powerful.
You are responding to my comment as well Anon 3:03. You are trolling my comment with your nonsense. Respectfully scroll on if you have nothing meaningful to contribute.

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Seamusviii
You certainly are not a member of the Clergy or you must have a nasty Bishop.
The laity are NOT the lowest and that is factual as the laity are the salt of the earth and more so going forward.
How nasty to think the Laity is the Lowest.
the Laity is getting trained up for everything for the future so the Clergy can celebrate the Sacraments as that is what they were ordained to do.

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Totally Agree Many of the current hierarchs and clerics are the Neo Pharisees however I Hope and Pray we are in the process of getting rid of them but with the Papal Nuncios that is being sent from Rome with Charlie and Jude makes one wonder.
You are having too much wine on a Sunday as you become to “catholic” for some and they will start to view you as RCC.
However Never stop your devotion to Our Lady and this Month to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Hopefully this week Pope Francis and Archbishop Roche will announce the final third findings into the Latin mass brigade and get them all in the one Church in each dioceses as Benedict was too kind to them.

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Bishop Pat,
Great story and fair play to you for pulling it off . Another win over RC Mafia.
Can you please rethink about showing the photo with the convicted Paedophile Martin Kerr .
Perhaps it was unintentional on your part but I don’t think he needs any publicity and it may indeed hurt any of his victims if they read your blog
J

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There’s no reason why the two roles of Primate and President/Chair of the bishops’ conference should not be separated. It would make sense to have the chair serve a fixed term – 5 or 6 years and rotated. It would straight away relieve the holder of both roles of some of his responsibilities.

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11.02
They do nothing apart from chairing meetings.
As for chair of Bishops Conference they are suppose to be democratic however Elsie and Eamon do not think so.
the Scottish Bishops Conference rotates by voting every four years sadly Archbishop Cushley was third so it went to the Bishop (monk) of Aberdeen and Bishop Keenan became the Vice Chair at that time none of the Archbishops got office.
it will be interesting in England and Wales when Vinnie goes if they hold votes and rota as whoever goes to Westminster will not be Cardinal straight away.

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Yes, the Romanists indulge their delusion that they control access to the Mother of God, just as they indulge another of their delusions: that they control access to grace (and, therefore, access to God, and to Heaven itself) through their manipulation of what they call the Seven Sacraments.

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While heading to visit a sick elderly parishioner this moment, I turn to our Blessed Mother, Comforter of the Sick.. Just one of the rare calls to receive in these days. It feels privileged to do so, even at this hour. Mother Mary, bless all the sick and all who are struggling.

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…and I’m sure, Father, that you will be looking forward to the little brown envelope that will be slipped in to your hand as you leave……makes all that feeling so privileged and useful worthwhile, doesn’t it ?

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8.13: An utterly cynical comnent. It is ine of my princioles – to never ever take a dination of any kind when visiting the sick or housebound. You are typical of haters and cynics. God help you. God bless all priests in their ministry.

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8.13
You are dreaming Clergy do not get all the brown envelopes that you think about.
Most clergy do it as part of their Ministry.
A Bishop came to give my parents a 50 years marriage Blessing from Pope Francis and took nothing for it he said he felt insulted by the offer.

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Ah, so you go back for it separately or have separate givers and takers. Even if you don’t do that ‘father’ the fact remains that you not doing that is only one case and this isn’t all about you.
Oh silly me, you’re an RC priest, of course it’s all about you.

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5.39
No, priest, you aren’t turning to ‘Our Blessed Mother, Comforter of the Sick’, as you make your way, at 5.39 in the morning, to visit ‘a sick elderly parishoner’ ? Instead, you are busy typing on this blog to let us all know how wonderful and self-sacrificing you are in depriving yourself of sleep to do your ‘sacred’ duty.
Never mind. The key words in your post are ‘sick and elderly’ ; these will undoubtedly soon translate for you, priest, as ‘lastingly and financially grateful’.
No wonder there is a spring in your step.
Truly you have had your reward.

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9.40

You really are so lacking in self-insight, aren’t you priest, that you cannot see what a parody of discipleship you have become?

You lionise yourself, again, before readers of this blog with your self-presumed, selfless dedication to the sick and with your imagined availability to God and to his mother when, in fact, you’re available to only one thing: satiating your massive, self-righteous ego.

Here’s a gentle tip, priest: when you pray, give to God your UNDIVIDED attention. Praying while composing, typing, and posting to this blog isn’t prayer.

And when you do someone a good turn, don’t boast to others about it. Didn’t Jesus himself say not to let the left hand know what the right hand was doing?

Pray in secret, priest, as Jesus instructed, because then the Father can reward you. Don’ t proclaim your prayers showily, like the Pharisees.

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@ 0940 – please do spare us your self-congratulatory spiel. It is sick making. Just go off and do your ‘good works’ quietly and hide your light under a bushel. We don’t need to hear about it. But you obviously need to tell us about it. Why ?

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9.14: Your cynicism is as usual, grossly ignorant. You, Magna, lest you forget, have posted at all times in the past – mostly after midnight- 12.30: 1.30: 2.45: 4.55; 5.00: 6.45….and so on. Not, I may say in any rational, calm or decent way: usually abusive and vulgar. Not either to share an experience of doing some kind act but usually to spew out your hate speech…Need I say more about your all night through repulsive behaviour on this blog. I, on the other hand, merely thanked God for such a grace-filled moment and before I visit any sick or housebound I pray to our Lady. Admirable, surely. You are to be pitied. Our Lady, Comforter of the sick (and afflicted), pray for Magna. (Do I detect a resentment and jealousy that you don’t enjoy any such wonderful, surprising God-moments!!!).

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Are you seriously expecting us to believe you were on the way out to a sick call that early in the morning? Lies lies lies lies, and self-serving lies at that.

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May God bless the good work of Fr. Anon 5:39 and Bishop Pat! There is no need for the hatred of Anon 8:13 and MC 9:14.
Anon 8:13 and MC 9:14, why do you both look at the speck of sawdust in the Church’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you both say to the Church, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in both your own eyes? You both are hypocrites, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you both will see clearly to remove the speck from the Church’s eye.

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Shammy boy, you still haven’t answered the post at 7.23, about how you actually regard lay people. You know, the fools who pay ALL the bills of the institutional Church because the Romanists (of whom the vast majority are not needed for full-time ministry) are too grand, too self-important to take up actual paid employment.

Why haven’t you answered (Father?) Shammy? Too embarrassed by that Freudian slip of yours?

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9.12: Do you feel shamed that perhaps you are just a lazy layabout? If Pat can boast of and share his great works of mercy and kindness, what’s wrong with others doing likewise? Rather hypocritical of you, hater!! Be rational and intelligent.

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Magna I wondered whether Chamois was a priest because of the way he made out the woman was at fault in the Fr ger case. However his comments are so ridiculous that I began to doubt that he could even arrive at the very low education level required for the priesthood. Then I thought he was a lay cheerleader of priests, however it is difficult to see how his ridiculous comments would support the church in any way. So I’ve concluded he is just a troll.
Incidentally would you object to me calling you Father? Not simply because it would annoy the cathbots but I would rather have you as a spiritual father than any cathbot.

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Actually he’s boasting of his treatment at the hands of the hierarchy and how OLL blessed him as a result.

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11.02
You may be right about Shammy. Perhaps he might say whether or not he is a priest, eh Shammy?
I appreciate the thought, but I’d rather no one called me ‘Father’. God alone is Father. Look to him for spiritual guidance; he is tabernacled in your heart, and he will provide you with all the good you seek.
The better we come to know the Father the more we instinctively think like him. But beware: this will put you at odds, if you are a practising Catholic, with romanist priests. They like to think themselves better attuned to God’s mind than he is; it’s why most of them absolutely insist on being addressed as ‘Father’. And it is why they co-opt God’s will to their own, especially in terms of moral teaching (like their approval of capital punishment, which they recently expunged 🤔)
See? God would just have got that all wrong had he been left to his own devices. 🤗

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Anon 1:47, I have absolutely no feudal contempt for lay people. I am not getting involved in a game of Twister. If you want to put 2 and 2 together and get 5 as a result, enjoy it! 😉
PAX

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Seamus at 1.00, running away from the obligation to make restitution for your gross disrespect doesn’t look good, especially for someone, like you, who tends to squat on the moral high ground with all that stuff you spout about Jesus, love and forgiveness.

Does Jesus not teach anywhere in the gospels about having the balls to put right the wrongs we do? I’m sure he does. Maybe you were off sick that day.

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A Roman Catholic is critical of the Church. It is beyond the comprehension of Anon 11:02 and then he engages in lazy comment making. A reflection of the world we live in and the way some people are today.
PAX

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@ 1.27, pax Seamus? Really? You stirred up a lot of ‘unpax’ above with your feudal contempt for lay people.

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@ 1:24, I humbly understand that people through their limitations have been unable to see the Bible scripture Luke 14:10 being fulfilled perfectly. It is a reminder of why good shepherds are needed to guide sheep on the right path.

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Seamus@2:48 you are a scream! This comment has given me the best laugh I’ve had in weeks.

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Anon 11:02 wants to to be a sheep guided by wayward sheep Fr. Magna Carta! Magna Carta who is incapable of seeing the wonder of Bible scripture Luke 14:10 being fulfilled! The Bible scripture of the blind leading the blind comes to mind!
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

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This is gross re banning you.

Will they ban a Muslim tourist or an atheist tourist or a religion of different denominations to visit lourdes in this day and age?

Surprised at Eamonn Walsh. That Bishop don’t speak of kindness or mercy. They all do is vindictive and nasty ifsomeone gets an upper hand.

Is that the same Bishop who was accused of negligence on abuses and refuses to resign. Correct me if I’m wrong there.

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DG. Why would any excommunicated (rejected) priest want to go to an RC establishment that he has criticised so vehemently? Why would they want him back after criticising him so much? I do not see what the problem is. I am confused.
Garngad Lad

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Welcome back Garngad as you haven’t been here for a while. Of course it’s summer.

You have a point there re rcc trained him and mould him. So he thinks, breath and speak like RCCers without any adherence to legalism(rcc laws).

Lourdes is a RCC site or location and controlled by rcc not by lourdes Council. Cis its inside church grounds.

Outside of lourdes ground, one is freely to speak or move with impunity, say mass in hotel or on some sacred ground.

The problem with rcc as I found is their vindictiveness and quite very petty in which rcc evicted ex rcc minister buckley out of church grounds.

I understand it took place in year 2002.

I wonder would rcc do that to any Anglican, muslim or Baptist or Christian minister in this present day and age??

God is for everyone, doesn’t it? Just saying it.

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I have no interest in RC establishments and I don’t see Lourdes in that light.

One goes to Lourdes to communicate with God and to ask for Marys prayers.

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@5.47, you’re confused, GL? Remember you said it.
Since when did Mother Mary become the property of the RCC?
The Earth is her son’s, and all on it.
No one has the authority to stop another from expressing their respect to Mother Mary. No one.

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12.41: Margie Carta, don’t worry about Seamus’s identity, integrity, personality or whatever you worry about. Worry instead about your own soul, behaviour, psychotic personality and psychological illnesses. Do that and you’ll be more loveable and respected. Prove you are capable of doing something worthwhile. We’ll all rally around you in prayer.

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9.16: Don’t waste your prayers on that heap, Maggie Cartwheel. She’s insufferable, beyond redeeming. She has chosen to stay in her hovel of caca which is spewed out in words. Awful auld queen, she is…unloved, unwanted, rejected…

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You’ve undoubtedly encountered many rancid old queens in your time, Bp Pat. I believe that soiled-senior-citizen, Walsh, eventually had to resign under a cloud.

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I wonder how Lourdes is faring at this time ? I guess it will be largely on lockdown, as is the rest of France, and certainly very few visitors from other countries. Aside from the saccharine pietistic side of Lourdes – some of which I can swallow, but most of which is simply contrived nonsense in my view – Lourdes is, in reality, an economic phenomenon that provides work and livelihood for that region. I guess that will be suffering. The thought comes to mind, I wonder if the Lourdes shrine / church authorities will have any concern for the ordinary people of Lourdes and will be helping them out during thiese difficult times from the huge resources that they have garnered from millions of pilgrims over the years ? I imagine not. The flow is usually in the opposite direction, and I imagine that they just wouldn’t even think of helping out people who have had their livelihoods so badly curtailed. They will be more concerned about the fact that the cash is not flowing in to their coffers and will be thinking of all sorts of inventive ways to squeeze money out of the faithful in order to sustain their own status and comfort. It is ever the same with the RC Church.

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Anon at 9.20pm
Well said re your comments cos I started to see rcc thinking in terms of money instead of helping people. This pandemic has shown their spotlight on this issue namely money and their need for it to run a business organisation instead of a religious organisation with a charity status which is exempt from taxes.

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Deaf Guy.
The RCC is a very rich organisation maybe not the riches in the World however it is priceless.
It is a charity and helps millions.
It suits some peoples agendas to constantly kick the RCC but it survives.
Bishop Pat has a selective memory at times it was the RCC that trained him for his ministry.

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Lourdes slowly dying pre vivid, not enough miracles there being recognised by the Vatican, they complained about that. A very spiritual place.

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Typical and I was waiting on it is that Bella back ?
The RCC does not need Lourdes, Fatima and Knock for money spinners and be rest assured of that.
Dioceses are sitting with multi millions in the bank, investment and property and will be around a long time when you have gone.
It is peoples belief and the faithful have asked for virtual Lourdes and other shrines.
It is so sad the jealousy however I will pray to Our Blessed Lady for you all to see if she can inform you ALL that her appearances was not fake.
Can I ask you all to pray from all that lost their jobs because the closures and this coach drivers and all involved however we will be back 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsoVBQvaLDM

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Great laugh reading all this outrage from the usual loonies on here, MC, Seamus and Deaf boyo being the main cheerleaders.

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So, Shammy boy, I’m NOT wished a peaceful day? Since you didn’t mention me.
Oh, Shammy! Shame on you! You’re like the Pharisee priest who posted earlier to tell us all how wonderful and self-sacrificing he is in his dedication to the sick and how admirable he is for praying to Mother Mary before every visit to an ill parishioner.
I’m sure Mary wishes she were more tactile, so she could pat him hard on the back for showing her such gratuitous condescension.

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11.01 If you dish it out flower you have got to take it also. If you can’t stand the heat ….

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@12:42 your attitude is disgusting.
With bold confidence, we began praying to our Father. In begging him that his name be hallowed, we were in fact asking him that we ourselves might be always made more holy. But though we are clothed with the baptismal garment, we do not cease to sin, to turn away from God. Now, in this new petition, we return to him like the prodigal son and, like the tax collector, recognize that we are sinners before him. Our petition begins with a “confession” of our wretchedness and his mercy. Our hope is firm because, in his Son, “we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins” [Eph. 1:7-8; Col. 1:13-14] (Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 2839).

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Leave the Deaf Guy alone. He gets a little bit muddled at times. Deaf people disappear into their own little bubble at times, Sometimes hard to communicate at times. I should know, I go through periods of profound deafness and waiting to see a an ent consultant.
As for Maggie. A complete pain in the back side. Rants and raves and making no sense. Surprised he has been allowed back on this blog having been barred. An utter embarrassment to this blog
Garngad Lad

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7. 28
Snap, Garngad Lad (who’s confused)! I’m waiting to see an ENT specialist as well. Isn’t this exciting?!
What is it? Fluid in the middle ear? A feeling of fullness which muffles external sounds? A bit of tinnitus going on?
Maybe we can hook up (is that the right expression?) if we attend the same clinic and talk about your confusion. Who knows? It might just be related to your hearing problems with all that gooey fluid building up there. 😀

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MC. Have you checked for wax? Difficult for oneself. Qualified audiologist does microsuction removal: see advert D. Recorder p.2 last week. £40 one ear, £60 two. Highly recommended. Personal knowledge. 👌
MMM

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10.37
Thanks, MMM.
No, it isn’t wax; it’s definitely a build-up of fluid in my middle left ear. My GP confirmed the suspicion weeks ago with an aural examination.
Am currently being treated with a steroid nasal spray, which so far isn’t helping much, or at all. But mercy! It’s making me gobble almost everything in site with even a hint of sugar, especially ice-cream.
I’ve been referred to a specialist; God knows (or maybe even HE doesn’t, given the fog of Pandemic) when I’ll get to see him or her. Hopefully soon.
BUT! 🤧 Ever one to look on the bright side, me, it helped stop my boozing. No lie. I did my own research and discovered that brandy and ale contain histamines: snot producers AND that these can thicken the snot they cause the body to produce. Hence the woe that is currently my lug hole. The tinnitus was absolutely unbearable, more so than a lengthy Sunday sermon (are there any short ones?) by a ‘good’ romanist priest.
So me and booze are divorced, all of six months now.
The prayers of the ‘good’ priests on this blog finally did the trick. 😀

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Eamonn Walsh gets nasty and vindictive when it upstaged him or any Catholic Bishop of Ireland. This is gross pettiness as he displayed a lack of humility on his part there. That is the mark of any such Bishop who is arrogant, thinks of nothing but himself getting upstaged by Pat buckley and gets all the more offended. This is trivia and pettiness par excellence on his part.
It has gone too far after reading today blog re rcc bishops not all of them though.

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10.49: Yes: I am telling the TRUTH. I work in a parish with a very large population of elderly sick and housebound. These wonderful people are of a generation who believe in the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick and the Reception of Holy Communion. I respect their faith; I’m inspired by it and caring for sick and housebound is a priority. Your silly, petty nonsense of a comment reveals a warped, twisted, poisonous mind. Incidentally, at my urging the daughter of the parishioner called the ambulance and the lady is now being cared for in hospital. She is 87 years of age. Perhaps, instead of hateful sarcasm, you might pray for Ellen!

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11.18: Yes, my head has swollen hugely…are you forvreal? I would nevervdream if tryingto surpass Pat…too modest and humble!! You are all so easily wound up like a spring and ready to snap apart… all because a priest visited acsuck parishioner at 5.00am and simply shared his devofion to our Lady, as Pat did. !! Lads/children/ladies , grow up..

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11.45
Father I am quite concerned that you had to go out at that time of the morning.
We all believe in the Sacrament of Anointing of the sick and it can now be done at any time.
If this Lady was that ill it should have been an ambulance she should have called and then you could have met her at the hospital but thankfully she made it to the hospital and hopefully makes a full recovery.
I think you need to come into the 2020 workings and that is the Sacrament of the Sick can be given at any time and you should encourage your parishioners to seek the beautiful Sacrament before any hospital admissions.
You must be in a dioceses that has many Clergy and maybe you should share that with other struggling dioceses where Clergy are on a pager and cover the hospitals for the full week and the Lay faith goes and visits.
You really sound as a “Me” father stuck in the 90’s when the Church had many curates now in some parishes the clergy cover a few.
The Clergy over 75 should go and take their well earned retirement.

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I note that the Daily Bulletin of the Holy See has not been published in English since 9th June. Other languages have been published daily. A shocking state of affairs when interest is so keen and widespread.

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11.50
It is still there sadly they have not been emailing the English version since 9th June however click on Vatican News and you will see it there and the short introduction to the Amazing Father ger Nash Bishop Elect of the Diocese of Ferns.

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Oh, that will be because the English priest who does the translations is away in June in Mykonos with this fey gay friends on his holidays. What’s his name ? Birmingham priest.

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12,10pm Yes, I knew that, thank you. Why did you make that jab at me? I do know what occurs in the Vatican

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It is probably because interest is so keen and widespread that they won’t publish likely sensitive information in a language so widely spoken as English.

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What kind of sensitive information do you imagine could be published in the other languages but not English? That a genital wart is going round the curia?

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12.38
Bella is back look at the Auld 😉 🙂
Father Sabastian Wall cannot control his flock 😉

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Not really, because I already know, from the Vatican’s caginess, that it is dirt they’d rather sweep under a carpet of obscurity (and which they’ve done) than have it exposed to a far wider readership.
But this is all we now expect from the listing ‘Barque of Peter’.
🎵 And the captain said it will never, never do… 🎵😁

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(@1.13 Father Sebastian Wall?
Sounds like one of those snooty, fruity characters in ‘Brideshead Revisited’.

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1:54 He’s not Bridesheady at all. Listen to his sermons online, that Birmingham accent sends me.

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@5:25
No, despite being Birmingham born and bred I can just lie back and wallow in the accent. You seriously just have to address me as Bab to get anything from me.
In fact a friend keeps telling me what a terrible reputation Birmingham (the city, not the archdiocese) has and I tell him we’ve put centuries into getting that reputation.

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1.07: Yesterday on this blog 3 priests were excoriated for not calling to a couple to pray with them over their cat who had died and to give them some comfort. The item drew vitriol against the 3 priests, wrongly I believe. Can you imagine the excoriation I’d have received on this blog had I not responded to this call and word filtered out? I’d have been condemned. When I took the commitment to care cor the sick, housebound and the bereaved, that remains a sacrosanct commitment over 40 years. I am truly living in 2021 and I know where my priorities lie – not in worrying about dead animals – but with the sick and housebound and bereaved – irrespective of the time I receive a request to call.

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1.09
No one excoriated you for visiting a sick parishioner, but for other things. Not least your attention-seeking, self-absorption.
You… don’t get it. Do you? 🤔

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Yes your priorities lie in trumpeting what you are doing here. Had any of those three Priests yesterday prayed for the cat and then done what you did, they would have got excoriated like you as well.
You were obviously thinking of the pastoral failure of those priests when you leapt on here to go look at what I’m doing, because therr is a connection in your head.
You were just trying to make up for their failure and attempt to rescue the sunken reputation of the church, but unfortunately your intention crashed into your ego with its instinct to go around trumpeting that you aren’t like those priests.
You could have either expressed a preference for what they should have done yesterday, or even had a word with them if you know them, but you didn’t.
Incidentally the reason your parish has so many elderly and sick is that nobody else will go to mass because of egocentric priests like you.

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1.07
Father you are stuck in a Ministry for 40 years and likely do everything in your parish look at me I’m Sandra Dee reminds me of Grease.
If that lady was ill she should have been anointed days before thankfully her call to the Priest may have saved her but she should have dialed Emergency Services.
If you manage to do First Friday calls then you are under worked as in most parishes they are spread out.
You say you are living in 2021 however you are not practising Church Norms of 2021 as this Lady should have been anointed.
You need to get the literature for the Sacrament of the Sick.
I hope there is a Pastoral council in your parish with the sub committees for Finance, Liturgy and Fibric or do you do all that as well.

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2.38: No one excoriated me Magna because I carried out my pastoral respinsibilities which I take seriously. I posited that “if I failed in my duty” to call to the lady who asked for the Sacrament of Anointing, I “would have” been excoriated…NOTICE the content of my original post. As usual you rewrite people’s comnents. You truly are pathetic. Again, I thank God for the joy of priesthood and that it is still a meaningful way of life and ministry to live. You don’t get it, do you? Ate you still wearing panties? 😁😂🤣

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3.46: Stop digging a deeper hole, Lady Magna. You are an utterly crazy and absurd: a bad, cranky, cry baby..You just don’t get the truth about yourself or if you do, you hate it. We see through the shabbiness of your personality. Grow up, baby: Grow up.

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Actually, Magna, I think ‘father’ does get it, since he has acknowledged that any pastoral care is about him. And that’s kinda what you’re saying isn’t it.
I’m disturbed that both he and Seamus have so little awareness of how they come across to others, though. The human formation element is obviously still not working.

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5.40

True. That is more or less what I’m saying.

And judging by ‘Father’s spirited but embattled rearguard action, he gets it very well indeed.

But what ‘Father’ doesn’t like is OUR getting that he gets it in that way, because he knows, then, he’s been rumbled… as a pious fraud.

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3.13: What an amazing imagination you have, O Uoset One!! . You have drawn all the wrong conclusions about me. You are way off the mark in every respect. Pat spike about his love for our Blessed Lady and it just so happened that I received a night call to visit an elderly sick parishioner. Incidentally, she was on my 1st Friday calling list and I told her daughter that if ever she required me to call, to do so, no matter what time. I merely shared a truth about my debotion to our Lady before I ever visit the sick. That’s all. Had Pat done exactly the same as I did and shared his experience – and I’m certain he has visited many at all times ofbday and night – would you be so vitriolic and rudely ignorant? Pat ” boasts” a great deal about his pastoral duties and well done to him. Is that ok but not acceptable if a Catholic Priest shares a similar experience? Strange attitude, strange silly, childish commentary from begrudgers and priest haters. Double standards and hypocrisy truly apparent. You guys…..get a life.

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Nice one @2:58 pm! How often have I heard priests and seminarians trumpet their care for the sick, bereaved and housebound, whereas their actual practice tells a different story. If anybody goes visiting, it’s usually the Eucharistic Ministers. Pat’s point about the cat RIP – which most people seem to have understood – is not to prioritize pastoral need as one case more deserving than another, but to include all creation within the totality of God’s love and concern. Father’s typically pompous and self-regarding comments @1:09pm dismissing concern for “dead animals” whilst proclaiming his own mighty compassion remind me of the weasel words of Judas reproaching Mary Magdalene for anointing the feet of Jesus: “He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief.” John 12. 1 – 8.

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Well said, 3.57.
Poor Father has made himself look very foolish indeed when he could have just walked away at the start.

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2.35
You are lucky to be able to do First Fridays as most Clergy need to space it out though out the month.
You must be in a small parish alone at 66 years of ave and likely subsidised by the Dioceses.
The laity must have more to do in the Parish of the Dioceses it is NOT your parish it is the peoples.

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3.57: Even Satan can quote scripture for his deviousness and malevolence…Well done!! Now go and apply the gospel of CHRIST to yourself.

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5.40: It is very easy to write a mocking, debasing and ignorant comment about priests: it comes naturally to the few who simply detest priests, Magna being your cheerleader. It’s amusing how the few are so irritated when a priest speaks about and defends his ministry. Of course, this blog promotes only one person, Pat, aided by a cohort of like minded followers. The blog has a particularly vicious anti Catholic priest vendetta..Therefore no priest will ever be treated fairly, respectfully or justly. But the words of Jesus give comfort: “…You will be hated by many because of (bearing) my name..” Haters are divisive people. Now Magser, I don’t want a Wikipedia discourse about the gospel text: its meaning and relevance is clear for me in my work….

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And yet you all moan endlessly that anyone who doesn’t unconditionally praise you is a hater! You can’t have it both ways – actually you should relish in what you think is hatred but is actually politely expressed criticism. Does Jesus have anything to say about his alleged followers who go around insulting people such as the insult aimed at Magna below?

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7.59: Two wrongs don’t make anything right but, get a grip. The most vicious, ugliest and insulting words come from the mouth of Magna Carta. He literalky has a swere mind. Can’t you seevwhy he is despised? Surely, he and his spoutings deserve only contempt and disdain. He is a poisonous virus on this blog.

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Well perhaps you should all take a leaf out of your own book and stop adding to the wrongs and practice the mercy and forgiveness you all come on here preaching about!

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Hilarious, had priests TRULY acted in Christ’s name, they would be loved, not hated. They would not have become the moral and social pariahs they made themselves.

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8.34: You’re HILARIOUS…thanks for the laughs…at your expense.. 😁😁😁😁😁🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😩😩😩😩..

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The priest felt the need to inform the blog at that hour of the morning about his ministration to a infirm person and how he was praying for them. Fair enough I suppose but it does strike me as a little odd. While any priest worth his salt would be up and away to such a call, it is strange how he had the presence of mind to comment about that here as he was getting himself together to go. As if he had been up waiting for it or sitting by the phone 🤔🤨

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6.43: Dr Integro: I am intrigued by the debate I generated by my 5.39am comment. It is factually true. Nothing odd at all. I’ve been called at similar and earlier times before – not many nowadays because families generally call the ambulance – but for very elderly people, the sacrament of the sick is very special to them.

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7.12: Are you jealiys of Father’s good ministry…seems you and others are…quite silly and stupid of you all. Where do some of you get your brains?

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6.59
father I have pointed out to you the Sacrament of the Sick can be given at any time.
It is the last Rites you should be called out for during the night.
Contact whoever is responsible Liturgy in the dioceses that you are in and they will explain the changes.
The booklet is as simple as ABC.
maybe you want to be the hero sending yourself to the grave or the cremator.

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Thanks for the promotion Father (Dr is a little premature 😃) I completely accept it is usual for a priest to be called out at all hours and that the Sacramentof the Sick is important. I certainly hope to receive it before my time comes. What is unusual however is the fact that his first thought was to tell the blog and then spend the day talking about it.

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7.57: I merely shared my experience, not to boast about anything I was doing, but to cobcurcwith Pat’s belief in Our Lady. However, because I happen to be a Catholic priest, some became extremely abusive, obnoxious and ugly – I just thought I should defend my ministry. That’s all. No more. Probably in hindsight, because of the nature of this blog, I should have refrained from discourse. It is literally impossible to be treated with even a modicum of respect on this blog. Magna is the vitriol, poisonous cheerleader under both “Magna” and many anonymous comments. Sadly. I’m glad I gave Pat a good day of commentary!! De Integro, you always comnent with civility, respect, moderation and clarity. Thank you.

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Yes he does. But you couldn’t speak about Magna with civility, ‘father’.
So we not only have you going’look at me’, when you get caught out you go, ‘it’s all Magna’s fault’.
I used not to agree with Magna, I thought he overstated it. However you have to pick on him despite several other voices calling you out today. You have done everything to confirm his view of priests.
Pathetic.

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6.59
It’s clear you are giving good example. There’s nothing self-serving about your post since no one else here knows you identity. So I say, keep it up, Father! Keep giving us good example. We need it. May the Lord bless you and keep you.

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At 6.59, if you priests hadn’t made sick old dears like Ellen believe that such sacramental grace was obtainable only through your ritual, maybe she would, as she should have, phoned for an ambulance first.
Your dogmatism was a danger to that poor woman’s well-being.

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Pat, the blog’s become so boring and repetitive since you let the narcissistic drunk back on. I just scroll past now.

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9.47: Are you both deaf and stupid? Are you unable to recognise the ugliness of Magna’s comnentary? Takev off your blinkers, sir. Really – you are pathetic.

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I have noticed something today.
A priest has been confronted on here with how his comment came across, even told that what he is doing is not in accordance with current norms and is having none of it, in fact has resorted to being sarcy. I thought seminary formation was intended to turn out rounded humans who could relate to others.
Seamus has had pointed out that the plain meaning of his comment is offensive to others and has accused other people of twisting.
What is it with these people? There isn’t the slightest hint of even paying attention to other people! In normal everyday life if several people tell you the same thing like that, you pay attention out of the respect you have for others and even if you can’t see it, you apologise and go away and think about it.
Heaven help you if you try reporting abuse to these people. They don’t listen, the only perspective that matters is theirs. And they seriously want us to think the church cares and anything has changed?
Now wait for the storm of insults because I’ve contrasted these two men with the way a normal decent human relates to other people.

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The Bishop sat with those seeking the Blessing of the Sick. The Bishop was invited forward from the crowd to preside over the Blessing of the Sick. It was absolutely wonderful! 🌈☮️🙏

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Gets tedious when a third of the comments are directed towards Magna. He’s taking over the blog and distracts from it.

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No the other people are directing comments to him. It is the other people taking it over – presumably in an attempt to get rid of Magna.

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Tedious @ 8:47? You mean worrying, annoying,……..for clerics and cathbots, who feel threatened by his relevant criticisms?
Well he’s certainly not short of ammunition: their behaviour and responses to his comments serves it up to him. And virtually all comebacks at him are usually personalised ad hominem diversionary shi£e.

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No I mean tedious. In that it’s turning this blog into a Punch and Judy show whIch has never entertained me.

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Not at all, he is hilarious, we need entertainment since the theatres are closed down. Please leave him be. Just learn to see the hilarity

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Strewth! What a lively blog is today’s! A veritable battleground strewn with the Romanist/cathbot dead and dying.

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Requiem aeternam Dona eis Domine.
There’s many a cathbot comments here who is dead but still running round parroting rubbish.

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Anon 9:05 is a part of Magna’s group where those who are blinded by the plank in their eyes are leading others who are also blinded by the plank in their eyes. Thou hypocrites!

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Seamus, Magna doesn’t have a posse, and isn’t running a group or cult. Once again you have betrayed how you see others, and I think we would all be more prepared to listen to you if you saw us as people rather than a misled group you want to harry into order.

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Dear Seamus, ‘thou’ is singular and ‘hypocrites’ plural. Bad grammar is often the result of muddled thinking, and frequently caused by it too.

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Battleground? Surely you mean a Punch and Judy show. I expect bloody Sooty the cat to resurrect and come and steal the sausages next.

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8.21
It is not the seminaries to blame in any way the Priest has been Ministering for 40 years so he will be old school and wants to do everything.
They do not want lay involvement it is their parish end of story and Bishops have a terrible time trying to tell them the laity MUST be involved.
So i pointed out the norms have changed but he ignored that and i pointed out the role of the laity and he ignored that.
So God help his Parish and the Bishop as he has around 9 years to go and likely protected by Canon law.
These Priests are holding dioceses back into the 90’s and it cannot continue.
A Priest is ordained for the Sacramental Life of the Church the laity for the rest but who knows just Pray for him and Seamus who have a low opinion of the Laity.
I just hope he is not a Dublin Priest as he is in for a shock as changes are coming like it or not.

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The laity are all old too. Since the Council the laity didn’t evangelise the world and they didn’t even evangelise their own domestic patch, ie their families.
The people talking about lay involvement etc didn’t pass on the Faith to their children, or who all lapsed, or to their grandchildren, who are all unbaptised.
Face up to those hard facts and we might get somewhere.

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I must be getting old but 40 years only takes us back to 1982. Surely many changes in parish ministry happened before that?

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10.26: You are talking utter rubbish and obviously haven’t a clue about parishes. You should acquaint yourself with facts before making a fool of yourself with this garbage.

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10.46: But Magna responds to himself under anonymous very frequently. The language, however he tries to disguise it, is his alone. He is easily found out. He ought to be banned for a 6 month period as happened before. He is the one who blights this blog with hatred and darkness.

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I am not Magna but frequently get called Magna here. Like it or not, Magna is not the only one of his views and frankly this is the future.

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Regularly called Magna? A compliment. But wise up and use a pseudonym. It’s not THAT difficult!

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Bishop Pat, why won’t anybody tell me what’s going on or what the situation is about what happened to me and my family?
It seems everybody knows more than me and I’m the victim and am still hurting very much, I’m entitled to answers. I’m really hurting badly and don’t think I’m going to make it.
I’m hurting very much and it’s torture to me and my family bring kept in the dark by the police x

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