QUOTE="HeavenlyHosts, post: 420135, member: 5309"]We are in Code Purple Air Quality in DC and Maryland. I have never in my life experienced such a thing. I’ve lived in Maryland since 1950. This is definitely apocalyptic. The final stage after this is Code Maroon. God help us. I went to church to confess today and the smoke was so thick over the river that the surface was almost invisible. It looked like dense fog. It’s frightening. I feel unwell but I’m still breathing, thank God.[/QUOTE]
Yes. It started May 1 here from Canadian fires in Alberta. All that distance. Now the smoke is from Quebec, all the way down the East Coast. Someone said even as far as Alabama. This seems very suspicious to me. Yes, the mask is a good idea. Hopefully the winds will shift to coming from the south this weekend. Thank you for your prayers. All of us in the path of this could use prayers.
I see that a "right to die bill" is being debated here in ireland this week.It gets me to think how and why has ireland fallen so quickly and so far.It like we just stepped over a cliff.Is it the church scandals that our people can't stand hypocrisy,is it that the faith was not properly taught to children,or was the whole thing built on sand?.I read before that in ireland i the last 50 years the women were the ones to pass on the faith at home and that is admirable but spiritually the father is the head of the household and he must lead maybe this is what happened?.Just looking for your thoughts.
These laws are being forced through illegally by corrupt government. The Irish Constitution specifically recognises and protects your right to life (Article 40.4). Your right to life also means the right to have nature take its course and to die a natural death. In the same way the nefarious abortion legislation an illegal act in light of the original Constitution.
Went to Clonard Novena this morning as Eucharistic Minister, so I had to sit through a ten minute Homily praising Pope Francis to the rafters. I knelt down for the concecration nearly everyone else at the altar sat. I was the only Eucharistic Minister who did not wear a mask. You can feel the chill factor all around you. The funny looks. A cold, Cold home to go.
Wow, how scary and bizarre for you all. I am watching a few things posted in French, though not too much because it is disturbing - in fact in one video, it looks like there was liquified fire on the ground. A guy who lives in Quebec was saying that the air quality is fine where he lives and he does not understand why smoke would leap over his town and turn the sky orange in NYC and spread down the NE coast of the USA. Am I wrong to say that the big cities are affected by the smoke but not always the outskirts - why is that? Anyway, I am reading headlines that give me chills and remind me of the "2 weeks to flatten the curve": thousands of people are being told to evacuate for a short while, some in Quebec left with almost nothing and told they would not be allowed back for 5-6 days. Hopefully they can go back home! But if no one is there, who will report on what is going on? Prayers for all those affected by these terrible fires.
The Church scandals laid the foundation, I think. The scandals themselves were appalling, but the 'reaction' by the Church in Ireland was worse. Simpering, hand-ringing, equivocating bishops. No resignations of a single bishop, except Casey who was the actual perpetrator in his case, one which was one of the less scandalous, anyway. 'Do as I say, not as I do' is not a strategy likely to succeed, so the bishops' authority instantly and totally evaporated. All this happened in a background of growing Jacobin and feminist anti-Catholicism, propagated primarily by RTE and the Irish Times and the latter mindset has opportunistically filled the vacuum. In a perfect storm, the Irish political establishment has treasonably sold out to the EU Central Bank which had to bail us out for their incompetence and to the US IT and Pharmaceutical sectors which have a near-colonial influence on this country. Combine this with our neighbour the UK (but excluding the North of Ireland, thanks mostly to Ulster Protestantism) embracing the most advanced form of wokeism on the planet and it's unsurprising that we're ripe for corruption.
That's bizarre, at this stage. Almost a cult of 'COVIDism'. Not my experience, in fairness. Our parish priest did the minimum, which he abandoned as quickly as possible. Anecdotal evidence tells me he continued to visit the sick throughout the so-called 'epidemic', although he is in the vulnerable cohort himself. He can have woeful taste in hymns, but that's rather unimportant!
Every Church I know has dropped the masks except Clonard. It is controlled by the Redemptorists who appear to be out and out Modernists and Ireland's biggest Francis fan club. There seems to be some kind of link to being a Covid Fear Monger, being left wing and being a Modernist. It must have something to do with the need to control people. Every time I see a mask now it chills the blood. Crazy.
Aye the Ulster protestants held. But they will be taken out soon enough. Probably easily too. They'll no doubt have a plan to dismantle them. The most terrifying part of the attack on Ireland for me, is the influx of fighting-age, foreign males. And the most phantasmagoric aspect to this is that not one person is asking where these people go when the hotels turf them out!?! I mean, the answer is easy; the media will begin to villify holiday home owners. And the public outcry will allow them to take it to the next level. A dumbed down public will fail to realise that once they take one home, one person's private property; all private property is gone forever. Ireland indeed has fallen. It is now only a matter of time.
I remember Clonard from years ago, when in my youth I was going with a West Belfast gal - and spent quite a bit of time up there. It was so very holy and regarded by the local people. Its really sad to hear of its demise. I can't post photos for some reason on this site. But I was in Bundoran this morning. I went into the chapel. I took a picture (and sent it to John earlier, actually) of the holy water font on the way in. It was a disinfectant, hand sanitizer thingy. I was shocked. And also, the red light/candle above the alter wasn't burning. Which unsettled me.
It used to be considered a Mortal Sin for a priest to allow the red light to go out before the Blessed Sacrament. But if you don't really believe that Christ is really present in the Eucharist why would you bother keeping the Lamp lit? Why not shuffle the Tabernacle of to the side where its not in the road for when you are having concerts? Why would would you genuflect? Why would take the host on your tongue? Why would you have Adoration? Why would you have Benediction? Why not stick the tabernacle up in the attic or out in the garage? Anywhere where its not getting in the road of really important things like Climate Change and Synodality...and Pride events. You can tell right away whether or not folks believe the Eucharist is the Real Deal or not by the way they approach it.
Last Christmas my parish requested I return as a Eucharistic minister. I informed them I wasn't vaccinated and I was not going to wear a mask. We had a new parish priest who wasn't wearing a mask and he had no problem. All the other Eucharistic Ministers continued to mask up. Every time I carried out my duties people were coming up to me after Mass thanking me for not wearing a mask. I also received Holy Communion on the tongue. Now a few others do so also. Now all the ministers have dropped the mask. We are lucky with our new parish priest. He is a breath of fresh air.
Gript news and Radio Maria Ireland are the only media I watch or listen to. "Gript" give a good alternative to the mainstream toxic news in Ireland. They are well worth checking out.
Thank you, Byron. We’ve had several days of break from it. Today we heard that there’s more smoke coming, this time from Minnesota. Not as bad, supposedly.
