
OUR ORATORY VIGIL MASS





AND ARCHBISHOP JOHN CHARLES MC QUAID.
My first experiences Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus was in the early 70s when J C McQuaid presided over its performance by Our Ladys Choral Society.
Everybody else was seated for Mc Quaid to arrive last. We all stood while the choral society sang Ecce Sacerdos Magnus.

ECCE SACDRDOS MAGNUS
What is the meaning of Ecce Sacerdos Magnus?
Behold the Great Priest
DEAF GUY’S PIC OF MC QUAID

179 replies on “EASTER SUNDAY”
The Oratory is beautiful. Dare I say it has a designer look?
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Im afraid the designer was poor old me 😉
No money for designers here.
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Pat you missed you calling in life, you should have been an interior designer
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Pat your calling in life was as a Priest, don’t be a kiss arse babe
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12:05 The Oratory is a beautiful, Holy, truthful and peaceful place.
Food for the soul.
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Easter greetings to you Bishop Pat , and to all at the Oratory .
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Thank you.
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Glorious pic of +John Charles
Sent from my iPhone
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Ecce sacerdos magnus qui in diebus suis placuit domino.
Behold a great priest who in his days pleased the Lord.
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Happy Easter Patsy, your very good health. I’ve got a wonderful picture of that great prelate John Charles McQaide of Glorious memory wearing the Cappa Magna but decided not to post in case it brought on DG’s PTSD again!
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9:27. Deaf Guy has proven that, thankfully, he is far more resilient than the Holy ones who want to bury Roman Catholic Church related wrong doing under a heavy mass rock would like to believe.
Bullies have to self create a minds eye that targets are weak because they are shameless cowards.
Hence the feminisation of names in Seminary tactics used here in Maynooth and when the deviant infuriated clerics and their colleagues trawl this blog for the purposes of targeting victims and survivors or church related abuse.
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9:27 Was that picture the one when he was the centrefold in Priests Only or when he was Tat Queen of the Month in The Gay Milliner?
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Anon at 9.27am
LOLOL, please do post it as I’m well over it, welcome it.
Will send a photo of mc quaid in my 1st school to pat now. I’m not in that pic but my ex teacher was there. She was beautiful for her age when I was a tot. 1st school was in stillorgan, closed now as new apartments are in the middle of construction phase. Nuns sold it for couple of millions.
Photo on way to pat to publish that photo ASAP.
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Is portraying John Charles in cardinalatial red an instance of artistic licence?
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No; just cocking-a-snoop at a holy-but-failed ambition of his.
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@ 10:23am
The bullies are you and your likes who trawl this blog to target right minded people who don’t agree with your particular agenda. Always looking to blame The Church for everything. DG brought a lot of his misfortunes on himself by involving himself with all that new age garbage.
It certainly hasn’t stopped him from traveling the globe he seems to have been everywhere. I wonder who paid for it?
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Not you Priest that’s for sure.
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11:12 The Roman Catholic Church has brought ALL of its misfortunes on itself with its ongoing addition to all manner of abuse, corruption and criminality.
You judge Deaf Guy, we judge you.
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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Apr 9, 2023 at 3:28 am
The ba—d looks evil. Look at those cold eyes.
“Good riddance, to bad rubbish”
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Happy Easter Pat from the Maynooth Survivors.
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Happy Easter Bishop from all the current seminarians in St Patrick’s Maynooth
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Pat any update on the Vigil Mass in Maynooth who was Mc
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Mullaney had his mid night gathering of a wine and cheese reception in his lavish suite. Only his closest Minions were invited the inner circle of his regime.
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The riff raff lower orders went to the Boiler Rooms and their other usual haunts.
Wouldn’t like to be a cleaner in those knocker shop places this Easter morning and meanwhile the Holy Ones that made the unholy mess in them are back in their parishes preaching what they don’t practice in time for the priests Easter Collection.
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@ 8:51am
You sound jealous, I take it you were never invited.
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The Oratory looks amazing Bishop Pat and is a credit to your hard work and dedication.
Happy Easter to you all.
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It’s easy to overload a small space but Pat presented a warm, hope-filled oratory. Lovely Easter colours. Pity you didn’t write an Easter reflection. This would have been preferable to placing Ballaghs portrait of Archbishop McQuaid. Probably he will dominate Easter Day!! The sacred arias for Easter are so magnificent compared to some contemporary muck that will be sung today. I have a few of the Catholic Latin Classics CD’s…They raise you heavenwards. Every blessing Pat for this Easter Day.
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Nothing compares to vinyl and monastic music:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-c46QR434
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Patsy, when His Grace Archbishop McQuaid attended Handals Messiah in the Theatre Royal he entered as the choir was singing Ecce Homo(Behold the man) part of the Choral. Ecce Sacrdos Mangus was only sung as a Prelate entered a Church for a liturgical celebration. He was not wearing the Cappa Magna he was wearing the Ferrriola. That horrible portrait of Dr Mcquaid by the lefty Ballagh is a disgrace the background implies that laundries, industrial schools etc. were only in Dublin instead of all over the country.
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Archbishop of Dublin and Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland from 1940 to 1972, Archbishop McQuaid was renowned for the unusual amount of influence he had over successive Irish governments.
McQuaid served as Dean and President of Blackrock College from 1925 to 1939.
McQuaid objected to Minister Noel Brownes proposal for free access to healthcare for Irish women and children.
McQuaid strongly criticised the scheme, claiming it was against the “moral teaching” of the Roman Catholic Church.
McQuaids criticism in the context of his strong political influence resulted in the Irish government withdrawing the scheme and the resignation of Minister Noel Browne.
Minister Browne’s resignation ignited a controversy as he passed on correspondence between the Bishops Palace and his own department to the then Editor of The Irish Times, Bertie Smyllie.
The letters revealed that Archbishop McQuaid and the Roman Catholic Church held what some would deem an inappropriate level of sway over the Irish government. The controversy sparked a debate amongst the Irish people about the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Irish State.
Two separate allegations of paedophile abuse by Archbishop McQuaid were brought to the attention of the Murphy Commission.
The Irish Public Health Service now known as the Health Service Executive who have responsibility for caring for minors who have been sexually abused were found not to have passed complaints on to the Murphy Commission for unexplained reasons.
In May 2009 the HSE passed a complaint dating back to the alleged abuse of a 12 year old boy in 1961 to the then Director of Child Protection in Dublin who informed Archbishop Diarmuid Martin who immediately informed the Murphy Commission.
The archdiocese then organised a further trawl of its files and found a letter “which showed that there was a awareness among a number of people in the archdiocese that concerns had been raised about Archbishop McQuaid.
In 2010, after the Murphy Commission report had been published, Archbishop Martin revealed that he had received another complaint against McQuaid. The supplementary report of the Commission said “Archbishop Martin was under no obligation to give this information to the commission”. It is understood this allegation became the subject of a civil action against the Archdiocese.
In his biography on McQuaid, John Cooney relates a number of stories that suggest that Archbishop McQuaid had a sexual interest in children. Archbishop Desmond Connell was called on by John Cooney to apologise unreservedly for his allegations that John Cooney’s mentions of McQuaid’s sexual abuse of children in his book were rumour, conjecture and hearsay.
John Cooney stated that Archbishop Connells comments had inflicted huge moral and material damage on him and his publishers the O’Brien Press.
Martin Sixsmith recounts the content of the letter from the unnamed boy handed over to the Irish Times by Noel Browne. Sixsmith claims this letter was used to eliminate Archbishop McQuaids alleged opposition to a Government Adoption Act to remove control over adoption of extra-marital children from the Roman Catholic Church and vest it to the Irish government.
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Sounds as if Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan is modelling himself on Archbishop McQuaid, he is critical of healthcare for women and was blatantly dismissive of Public Health guidelines during Covid 19 pandemic. Another law unto himself is +Cullinan.
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But nobody listens to the idiot. The days when bishops expected to be listened to and obeyed have long since gone. Only the likes of Phonsie thinks that he continues to be relevant….
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9:07 the parents allowing their youth to attend his camps appear to believe Bishop Cullinan.
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9:07 With no disrespect I make a point of listening to what he says. Nothing gives me more pleasure than hearing a bishop chat stupid shit and make a fool of himself while attendance of his cult’s churches continues to fall.
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10:20am it’ll do for their day
They’ll be selling the churches anyway – in the meantime, bishops busy minding their home comforts in their Bishops Palaces.
If you want advice on the latest home gadgets and finishes, make Bishop Tom Deenihan of Meath your first port of call.
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9:51 must be pampered teenagers with moneyed parents already connected to church. Don’t think anyone outside that circle would place such trust in then these days and with all the outstanding cases against the church.
Our kids have to work every weekend as well as during school college breaks and we still have to find money ourselves to help them with travel, accommodation and food in these expensive times.
No surprise, the church was always geared towards those with money.
They won’t change.
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In January 1960, a first complaint about Fr James McNamee bathing with naked adolescent boys at Stella Maris FC was made.
Investigated initially by Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Dunne and reported to Archbishop McQuaid.
McNamee denied the allegations and was believed by the bishops.
Archbishop McQuaid wrote “as he is a worthy priest I agree that we could not refuse to accept his word”.
Fr McNamee moved on from Stella Maris Football Club, but, McQuaid said not immediately “lest he be defamed”.
Many subsequent complaints were made about Fr James McNamee.
See Report into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, July 2009. Chapter 12.9.
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The Health Service Executive claimed a simple case of “human error” as a defence for failing to pass reports of abuse to Murphy Commission.
The Irish Health Service appear to make an enormous number of “human errors”.
The close relationship and cozy deal arrangements between the Irish Roman Catholic Church and the Irish Public Health Service and other government and publicly funded agencies and organisations proves that matters haven’t moved on from the bad old days of Archbishop and his predecessors and successors who continue to influence gains in their favours.
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9:07. The victim of the cervical cancer screening scandal in the Irish Health Service, the late Vicky Phelan, confirmed though her solicitors and in numerous media interviews in the final years of her life as she battled cervical cancer that the Irish Health Service tried to make her sign a Non Disclosure Agreement in return for compensation for their error which Vicky Phelan, a woman of the greatest courage and integrity, refused to do as this would have meant that hundreds of other potential victims of this same error and their families would be denied justice.
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In August 1960, a British photographic processing company passed on film posted to them from Father Edmondus (a pseudonym for Father Paul McGennis) in Dublin to Scotland Yard. The photographs were of girls private parts. It was passed to the Commissioner of the Irish Police in the Republic of Ireland who asked Archbishop McQuaid to take over the investigation.
Archbishop McQuaid in turn passed it to Bishop Dunne who had grave concerns that a canonical crime had been committed.
Fr Paul McGennis admitted to Archbishop McQuaid that he had taken pictures of the children at Crumlin Children’s Hospital because of his ignorance and curiosity regarding female sex organs. Fr McGennis related his social discomfiture with females as he was raised with brothers (in fact he had a sister).
Archbishop McQuaid and Bishop Dunne finally agreed that a canonical crime had not been committed.
Archbishop McQuaid arranged for Fr McGennis to see a doctor for instruction “to end his wonderment at female genitalia”.
The Murphy Commission believed that Archbishop McQuaid acted as he did to avoid scandal in both Ireland and Rome and “without regard to the protection of children in Crumlin hospital”.
The Commission described McQuaids usage of the word “wonderment” to describe McGennis’ actions as “risible”.
The Commission further added that Archbishop McQuaid’s actions “established a pattern of not holding abusers responsible” which lasted for decades.
It is noted that wherever possible the RCC continues in 2023 to protect various categories of its abusive clerical and lay membership.
The Commission also noted that no attempt was made by the Roman Catholic Church to monitor Fr Paul McGennis aka Fr Edmondus in other placements.
It is also noted that no effort was made to establish if Fr McGennis used more than one alias.
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I do keep commenting here that a notionally celibate priesthood won’t exactly attract the sexually balanced or mature.
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Irish President Eamon De Valera and Archbishop McQuaid co-operated to control the lives of the Irish people for so long in a closed and puritanical society which the writer Sean O’Faolain memorably decried as a “dreary Eden”.
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Yes indeed Dermot. And another writer, Dervla Murphy, writing in 1976 with reference to the RCC “Ne Temere” decree (that children of ‘mixed marriages’ must be reared as Catholics), wrote:
“A few years ago Rome relaxed the laws governing mixed marriages, and most national hierarchies promptly adjusted their local regulations. But the Irish bishops, showing a crass insensitivity to the Northern tragedy, ignored this opportunity to improve inter-church relations all over Ireland”
Her Ch5 (Men of God) of “A Place Apart” casts a shrewd and revealing eye on how the nation was controlled by the Catholic hierarchy, primarily through its hold on the educational system.
MMM
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11:20 Mick, you’re stuck in the past.
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11:20
Dervla was called by the Lord.
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WWW: Sadly indeed she’s gone, but left wonderful memories in her many books. And I wonder did she ‘hear the Lord’s call’ or ,in her own inimitable fashion, just decide she’d had enough?
She described her parents as “essentially orthodox Catholics with a light hearted approach to the peripheral taboos, heartbroken when I drifted away from the Church during my early twenties …a lapse something that had to happen in the course of my maturing, …and I describe myself as an agnostic humanist.” (A Place Apart. Ch 2)
I see many parallels in her description of this journey.
MMM
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The Irish Roman Catholic church and its connections still work extremely hard to bury anything that reflects it in a negative light regardless of consequences & damage to victims.
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10:55 Deliberate and ongoing defamation of character to further church interests is an extremely serious matter.
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There is every reason under the sun to move away from the Roman Catholic church: priesthood and priests, personnel and volunteers.
Christ did not order the confession of sin to romanist priests, but to God himself.
And this confession, priest, is expressed in sincere recitation of The Lord’s Prayer.
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Romanist ‘visionaries’, ‘seerers’, and ‘locutionists’ on anti-psychotics would be joining Luther.
People like Bernadette Soubirous, Joan of Arc, and Jean Vianney.
As for psychsomatic illnesses, that fat Italian friar and fraud, Pio, is a classic example of this kind of mental disorder.
In romanist parlance, ‘seeing’ white mice or pink elephants is not acceptable, but ‘seeing’ the Virgin Mary is!
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@ 8:04am
The vile apostate Jew hating Luther was like yourself the most psychotic of all. I’m sure those great Saints St. Bernadette,St. Joan of Arc.St. Jean Vianney and St. Pio of Petrelcino will assist you on way down to perdition to become burnt toast, by giving you a good shove.
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Roman Catholics appear to believe the church’s bizarre teaching that whispering your sins into some deviant’s ear in a cupboard will somehow result in you getting away with murder!
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Whenever I go in I say to the priest, ‘You go first ‘.
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9:22 and how long have you got!!!?
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Too cold for Hot Tubs this week all indoor.
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The undertakers wife and children won’t be happy to have undertaker and his priest pals inside the house.
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9:48 it is understood that the Judge issued this poor lady with a barring order against her abusive husband who is a close personal friend of several Scottish clerics and other members of the Roman Catholic scene in Glasgay.
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“X” CANNOT use any for his own Curia as they are all named one way or another in the situation.
It will need to be someone impartial and totally independent as Rome will want to see the documentation.
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Our model is Christ and, therefore, his words our instruction. He did not call for the establishment of intermediary priesthood.
It is priests who are choosing to disregard this in favour of their own highly vested interests.
Romanist priesthood has always presented itself as intermediaries.
Consequently, they are depriving believers of access to God’s grace, because it can come through, and from, only one legitimate source, Jesus himself.
If anyone is wondering why, in the history of Christianity, there has been so much immorality, so much sin and suffering, it is in very large part down to priests, who have starved believers of spiritual nourishment from God by usurping the role of Christ in presenting themselves as mediators, a role that Christ alone can fulfill.
These men, priests, even have the gross audacity to boast of this usurption by lionising themselves as ‘other Christs’, when there is, and can be, only One.
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Our time seeking justice as victims, survivors, friends and supporters of same is something like a Lenten journey.
Like any of the Birmingham Six, we are innocents who continue to be gravely wronged.
Like Jesus on the third day, we will RISE.
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Must be depressing to go from someone to nobody over night, tough pill to swallow!
I wouldn’t know!!
I get by with more than a little help from my friends 😇😳😇
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Hark @ Fr Honky Tonk himself.
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The oratory is indeed looking beautiful Pat. Happy Easter to you and your readers!
Spare a thought for the good clergymen and parishioners of Ardagh and Clonmacnois. The erroneous episcopal appointment of Fr Paul Connell is absolutely scandalous and must be stopped. A dark cloud has been cast over the diocese. What have the good clergymen and parishioners of Ardagh and Clonmacnois done that Pope Francis is punishing them like this?
Those who woke early for Dawn Mass can walk with their heads held high! 🔥🕯️🙏 The rain was an Easter blessing! 🌧️☔🙏
Roast lamb for dinner today. 😋😉
Pax
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Happy Easter Seamus
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Go raibh maith agat 8:47! Happy Easter!
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Easter Blessings, Seamus.
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Thank you 1:05! Happy Easter and Easter Blessings to you! 🙏
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8..34: Ah yes Seanus; you undoubtedly have everything materially you want, paid for by parishioners? And other perks as as a priest, making you very comfortable. Since your “FAUX OUTRAGE and your supposed “CONCERN” is pure talk, shut up.
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2:51 The ongoing FAUX LIPSERVICE from the Roman Catholic Church on redress for sexual and financial exploitation of women and orphans and related people trafficking and document forgery is pure talk and high time Fraudulent Frankie and his corrupt international framework shut up and put the money they continue to collect from brainwashed sheep into the bank accounts of victims, survivors and families of those victims who died awaiting redress.
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2:51, roast lamb. A hem-ish, ahem, a hem of course of brandy! Happy Easter!😋😉
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This Easter morning we victims and survivors pray for the many homeless men and women who sleep outdoors, for the many young couples and families in emergency accommodation, for the parents of children with disabilities, for those in long hospital waiting lists, for migrants in temporary shelters, for those who continue to be victimised and persecuted by the self interested Roman Catholic establishment and its cohorts.
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Wish you a very happy Easter Sunday today.
Didn’t read yesterday blog until now.
Through my experience re dabbling with new age at its peak, did experience the existence of Satan.
So i believe that satan exists. Supposing if you don’t believe in God, thus don’t believe in Satan or vice versa.
Pat, think your experiences with Satan very similar to book called ‘The dark sacraments’. They didn’t mention any names but thought it was you when I read your blog of yesterday.
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Wishing you a very happy Easter Day, deaf guy.
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Anon at 9.09am
Thank you, same to you too re wish you and all other victims as well, irrespective of their gender, a very happy Easter Sunday.
👍
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Happy Easter DG!
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Happy Easter Dead Guy- hope you have a wonderful day
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+Pat, you haven’t heard Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus until you’ve heard it sung in Hebrew 😁. The oratory looks lovely. Happy Easter!
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Can you send us a link please?
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Hi +Pat,
It’s on my Facebook. Don’t know if this link will work but here goes:
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No it doesn’t- stop lying to him
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10:39 The camera never lies.
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Happy Easter from us all at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Chapel.
https://www.youtube.com/live/rRngW9yk-uQ?feature=share
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Any sign of Abbot ‘Big boy’ Purcell at the Easter ceremonies in the monastery?
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Chrism Mass is usually where the MIA and the on the fringes clergy reappear in order to cling on to links and make themselves somewhat relevant. All to do with that stuff about once a priest always a priest and the ontological nonsense they picked up at seminary. Even when they are long since gone, they still hang on to their priestly identity. Any sightings in various cathedrals this last week ? It will have been an MIA spotters paradise.
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Now dear, please don’t lower the tone of the day by mentioning his name. I am just about sick of listening about pierced penis and priests with tattoos
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Is there extra satisfaction with having a pierced penis or is it a vanity thing?
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There is nothing to gain by getting one’s penis pierced. There is no extra stimulant or pleasure. It is actually the most dangerous place to pierce and has to be done by a highly trained individual. Most piercings are conducted by heterosexual men, and the majority of them have no desire to train in this. There is one piercing person in NI who can perform this and 17 in ROI.
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Don’t kid yourself.
Big Boy Purcell and his pals have bigger fish to fry this nice long weekend.
Shame for them weather is so nippy but they are intelligent and resourceful so between them and their wealthy benefactors they’ll be just Grand.
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Happy Easter, + Pat.
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You too
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Happy and Peaceful Easter to Mrs Maguire and family of the abusive undertaker. They have been through a lot with him and his gay priest friends.
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12:14 indeed, Missus Maguire and her children are suffering the perils of having a family member so deeply embroiled in the RCC quagmire of crime, corruption and abuse. Mud sticks.
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Here we are at Easter, and in Jerusalem the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians are at each others’ throats. There appears very little to celebrate there. The extremists in all camps thrive on violence and dissension. It’s what keeps them relevant. I’m not sure all the warm and fuzzy words of Popes and Archbishops of Canterbury are going to change very much. Maybe the problem is religion ? Maybe religion has a great deal to answer for ? It’s one of the reasons that I am not areligious and shake the dust of my past and upbringing from my feet. Enjoy your lamb Easter dinner, all….
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Happy Feast day our Pat. Just had Easter dinner in the Glenowen Inn, the soup was disgusting (mushroom) but everything else was satisfactory I guess, will you be having lamb yourself? On to the tequila now for me, enjoy your day.
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The food in there is distinctly average, and they got a one star for hygiene rating last year. But risky eating in there, although their alcohol is cheap, but they serve them in dirty glasses
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You just can’t help yourself, Pat I have every sympathy for alcoholics but when that man boasts about it constantly I find it revolting. He is a bad influence on your younger readers who may see his behaviour as acceptable.
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Hardly the worst influence that young readers could pick up for this blog?
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In the unlikely event that there are any young readers on this blog, if it bothers Abbot Dick Purcell and his colleagues that the “future” may read about them, all they have to do is stop feeding the machine.
F… Up & +Pat & many other international outlets will rightfully report it in the interests of public health and safety.
Once again, the Holy Ones & their cohorts are reminded that Buckley’s Blog deals with abuse, corruption and criminality in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Eamon be careful I started off with an addiction to alcohol and it has lead me to heroin, please get help while you can mate, it’s too late for me
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Happy Easter Pat, many thanks for saving my life all those years ago, when I was caught and arrested cruising public toilets with a whole host of other men. I never looked back and changed my way of life, I am still happily married to my wife and we have twins now.
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Awk isn’t that just a beautiful story? That’s the resurrection in action xx
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I’m sure Jesus would be proud of you and your actions
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David Delargy is a very angry individual
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You can sing your way out of certain situations
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If God isn’t a Prod then why does the sun always shine on the 12th?
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It rained last year all over the 12th and they were all soaked to the bone
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@1:30pm
God’s good.!
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Easter is all about life and family, yet RN was up at 4am making YouTube videos about Our Lady sending him messages to save Priesthood.
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When does that man sleep? He is asking for an early death
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He certainly doesn’t like to go near garlic, so what does that tell you
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The man who was on a mission to rid silverstream of evil, then back tracked and is focused on ridding the world of young men masturbating
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Poor Robert is going through a tough time with all them voices in his head,I don’t envy him
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The alter in the Oratory is looking so beautiful. I love the wooden tabernacle & lectern, the trailing flowers, and Lile na Cásca.
Happy Easter to you Pat and your husband.
Happy Easter to the contributors.
He has risen, Hallelujah!
Upwards and onwards.
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Kevin Connolly knows a lot of what went on in Maynooth, how much did it cost to silence him
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The answer to this conundrum can be obtained through Kevin Heery 🤔
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Paddy McCafferty just can’t help himself, Easter Sunday and he is still harping on about abortion and the upcoming elections, bore off
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I love the picture of Charlie McQuaid. Notice the cloud? His head is similtaneously IN the cloud, as well as being UNDER it. And it’s a dark, menacing cloud indeed that he’s under. Symbolically clever.
The former, I suppose, signifies his clericalist aloofness and exceptionalism; the other, the moral betrayal of his own people. And the essence of this betrayal is symbolically behind him, at either shoulder: his right, the betrayal of pregnant, young women (and their unborn/born children) through the Magdalene laundries, and, at his left, the institutionalisation of this betrayal through seminary in Ireland, which ensured that more moral dictators/oligarchs (priests) would descend, like locusts, on the vulnerable populace. Had there been no Roman Catholicism in Ireland, no priesthood, these harrowing chapters could not have been written. (Maybe ‘St’ Patrick, like Albert Einstein, could now mutter that he would rather have been something else in life… something other than a Christian missionary…, had he known the destruction his efforts would bring.)
McQuaid deserves the lion’s share of blame for this, but not exclusively so. Not one Catholic priest in Ireland during McQuaid’s too-long tenure spoke out, publicly, against these unchristian and appalling abuses. Not one. Why? Weren’t they servants of the courageous Christ? Actually, no, they weren’t: they freely served an institution ‘corrupt, and riddled with corruption’. (And to these discredits can be added ‘cowardly’.) In Ireland, Charlie McQuaid was its de facto figurehead and representative.
All Catholic priests, then and now, are moral cowards and charlatans, precisely because they each elected to serve this institution.
There is, so I’m told, no such thing as a free lunch, and the Catholic Church expects absolute loyalty from the locusts in return for feasting on its harvest (largely, human beings), even if this loyalty does conflict with the will of God. And it frequently did, and continues to do so.
As for the publications at McQuaid’s feet, his corrupt legacy?
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@ 1:34pm
What a load of rubbish those halcyon days under dear Doctor McQuaid were indeed wonderful. It’s only people like you who believe anything negative about a real Catholic Prelate. So different to the useless shower we now have.
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I find it a disgrace that all shops close today to celebrate a Christian holiday, what about us non Christian’s and atheists? The world is mad, closing shop because of a fantasy book.
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Yet here you are on a Christian blog? If I were you I would talk to a journalist
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And not just any journalist.
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Sammy even Christian’s are not perfect
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Brendan Marshall
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A “CHRISTIAN blog!”
Looking at some of the stuff written about here I’m bound to wonder!
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Happy Easter Bishop Pat. We had a wonderful Easter Vigil in Armagh Cathedral last night. I know he isn’t your favourite person but Archbishop Martin is really excellent when celebrating the big occasions in the church.
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Thank god it’s coming into summer for I have been freezing all winter and spring, price rises are a disgrace they really are
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It hasn’t even been that cold, just wear extra clothing
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Maybe if you were never out of the fridge love, you would be warmer
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I haven’t any summer clothes and I can’t afford them this year, thank god for charity shops
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Hope you got a few Easter eggs Pat, I didn’t get one. My wife nes are all selfish – but remaining positive it will mean a healthier Easter than normal for me
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There’s more to life and Easter than chocolate eggs
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3:33 your wasting your time and energy on that mob. It’s all been done before. You may as well take a pee into the North Atlantic wind!
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Bishop Buckley please keep me in your prayers. My fiancé dumped me on Good Friday and I’m devastated. I know he is the one and I hope God helps him realise this.
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He might be the one, but it doesn’t sound like you are- think about it
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There is no such thing as the one, there are billions of people on the planet for a reason, open relationships all the way
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Think mc quaid biggest regret was not getting his RED HAT or was he bypassed for another prestigious position 🤷♀️.
By the way, already sent photo of mc quaid as it took place 1970 or 1971.
The reason for his visit was that he founded that school in 1955 as he gave it to the nuns- daughters of cross of liege. However his well meaning intentions at that time, but that led to all forms of abuses which had irish govt disgusted as their barristers or redress board didn’t want to talk about it.
That much was very clear to me.
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DG PUC OF MC QUAID ADDED TO BLOG ABOVE.
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Pat at 2.27pm
Thank you. 👍
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2.30
Are you in that photo, DG?
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How will poor GC cope with his Redemptorist “friend” leaving the Holy Family parish in Dundalk???? The parish is now under the control of the other Dundalk clergy for 6 months until a permanent appointment is made.
DR is moving to Mullingar for 2 months……. diesel is expensive from the countryside of the Orchard County….
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There is nothing religious about Gemma Collins
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I’m sure Gemma isn’t interested in a gay redemptorist. And she’d have to beat away his boyfriend first 😉
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Gemma could eat her way out of any situation
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Anon at 5.21pm
No,im not in that photo but my ex teacher is in that photo. She was a beautiful woman at her age that time. She’s still alive living in South Dublin as I heard as all remaining nuns from 1955 were dead.
Was told that photo was taken in 1970 or 1971. Cos Bishop mc quaid visited and opened new extension to original school 9f 1955 .
Thats reason for his visit but I don’t remember him visiting etc.
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Even if DR is moving further south, he and GC will still be together. And if it’s not meant to be then they’ll know what to do. Both of them are gorgeous looking guys so neither will be single for too long.
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Where is the evidence that they are in a relationship? Why can two priests not be close friends without constant speculation that they are in a relationship? Honestly you do your blog an injustice by letting people throw rumours about. GC recently lost his mother and does not need this
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It’s days like these I thank the lord for creating me and making me a big lesbian, I love my life and sexuality.
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Everyone should love themselves like you do Roberta, I love your self confidence but I was homophobically verbally abused in Asda last month and it has knocked my confidence, why shouldn’t I have short hair and a sleeve tattoo on my arms if I want to?
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Well I see our parish priest doesn’t take seriously not eating meat on Good Friday. I was out shopping on Boucher road and there he was out of uniform munching on a sausage roll outside Greggs, bloody disgrace
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That’s an old myth Maureen based on the best selling fantasy book of all time
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Bishop Buckley would you offer me some advice, I was thinking of becoming a Priest. Your blog has intrigued me for a long time now. To be honest it has put me off applying, there seems to be a lot of rotten eggs in the RCC.
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Become an Anglican, they can get married and have good sex
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McQuaid looks like a wizard in DG picture – awful looking man
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@ 3:06pm
Away and look at yourself, Dr McQuaid was fine, blame that painter it is not a good likeness, and not good portrait.
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Did two priests genuinely have sex in a monastery scullery? Jesus wept
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Yes, and one of them was found morally and spiritually competent to be on the visitation team of Silverstream Priory.
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Happy Easter Pat to you and all on the blog
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Happy Easter Monsignor Toddus.
Luimneach Abu!
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Great win today again. We are in a golden age
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Let’s not forget our IRA heroes from the Easter rising of 1918, those before them, and those after them. Without these heroic men, the Good Friday Agreement would never have been possible. Martin McGuinness, RIP VIP
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1918!! Lay off the altar wine will ya! Fr Freebie.
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@ 4:00om
Let us not forget those murdering terrorists, who won’t be resting in peace. Remember their victims who will be resting in peace.
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The Pope looked so radiant and healthy today, God save our Pope
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Yes but he will still be dead by the years end I think
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@4:01pm
Oh Please! get that eye test, God save us from that Argentinian.
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He didn’t. He presided in a polyester cope and could barely stand, and then they wheeled out the slightly less decrepit Cardinal Re to recite the canon of the Mass. I don’t think Fanny had the strength even to raise the Host and Chalice. It reminded me of the latter days of JP II and the gymnastics involved in propping him up.
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5:20pm A stark reminder that none of us can cheat Fr Time.
This also highlights the ongoing coercive control being executed by Church and State in deliberately and knowingly delaying the finalisation of redress and compensation schemes that would bring long awaited acknowledgment and peace to many elderly victims and survivors of church related abuse.
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Bishop Deenihan is getting eye surgery on Thursday Pat, say a prayer for him.
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4;25 — How utterly poetic.
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Monday is a Bank Holiday so +Tom Deenihan should finalise his business with the persecuted Dom. Benedict Andersen on Tuesday, Wednesday am latest whilst he still has an eye in his head.
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Best of luck Tom, hope it all goes well
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6.08: I don’t believe you’re a priest. Absolutely not. This kind of comment has been printed frequently. And I’m sure if you had any real, serious issues about priesthood, you’d not come for advice to this blog. You’d have spoken with your close priest friends whom I’m sure would be kind to you and sensible in their advice. What have you done with your salary at 58 years? Most of us try to save a little. You feel stuck…and it’s not a crock of s**t. Most of us get on with our work despite many setbacks.
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@5.33 pm I have no close priest friends. My best priest friend died last year at 73, and he was disillusioned. I have nothing in common with the rest of the clergy in the diocese, many of whom are effete and careerists and who would think nothing of breaking confidence. In England, we receive a salary of £5,000 a year. Once a holiday and car are paid for, it isn’t easy to save.
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5:33
Yes, Bishop
No, Bishop
3 bags full, Bishop
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7:26
How high, Bishop
I’m too old to jump higher, Bishop.
Sod off, Bishop.
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+ Pat, I want out of ministry and the church. I am 58 and thinking, why did I waste my life studying the filioque clause and signing up for this croc of sh!t? I’ve no pension and no savings, and I feel stuck.
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Get out while you can ya all
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6.08
We may e classmates. Were you in Maynooth?
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At mass this morning in Haddington Rd parish and believe it or not a Croatian priest hearing confessions during the mass
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