The Eclipse, Nineveh and Akita 2019 prophecy

padraig · Apr 11, 2024

One of the wonderful things about reading the lives of the saints is that we get such a birds eye view of their lives and growth day by day.

In our own lives things can seem so plodding , ordinary and day by day. But for the saints too that was how it was. Day by day, step by step.

Perhaps that is one of the reasons St Therese is so appealing, step by step ordinary and plodding. No great miracles and wonders. Pure ordinary. This gives great hope.

maryrose · Apr 11, 2024

padraig said: ↑

For those who love God all things work together unto the good.
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I remember when he died over 30 priests came to celebrate his funeral Mass including a representative from the Bishop and he was buired in the priest's plot in the graveyard. It was extraordinary. He was a devoted Irish speaker so a teacher from his school organised his tombstone in Gaelic and there is picture of St Therese on it.

AED · Apr 11, 2024

maryrose said: ↑

My mother's family had a strong devotion to St. Therese. My uncle Pádraig on my mother's side of the family never married. He had wanted to become a priest. He was born in 1914. At that time the regulations for being accepted into the seminary were very strict. They were a poor farming family and my mother was the only girl. Their father had died and money was scarce. My mother got a job looking after children in a wealthy family and she sent her earnings home to help her brother. He was accepted into Maynooth which was a great source of pride and joy to the family. At that time it was a 7 year program. In the early years he had a swimming accident and sustained a burst eardrum but he progressed OK. He always had extraordinary devotions to St Therese. At the end of year 6 he came home for summer holidays. He had actually been told that he would not be able to go forward as he was essentially deaf in one ear and that could be an impediment to his ability to hear confession. He did not know how tell the family and was praying to St Therese to help him. My mother saw a book in his room 'story of a soul' and started to read it and found the letter in the book so all was revealed. Funnily they had accepted the news when he was contacted again to tell him that they had changed their minds and he returned for his final year. Unbelievably the exact same scenario occurred just before ordination and my mother found the letter in the book again, so that was that. He went on to become a teacher. He founded a school and he was instrumental in helping many of his students to go forward for priesthood. He and my mother really had great devotion to Therese and in later years visited Liseuix every year. In recent years I have found her myself.
Sorry for being so long winded.
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What a wonderful story in your family. What a simple good soul he was. God is so masterful in how he weaves our lives.

sparrow · Apr 11, 2024

non sum dignus said: ↑

'You make me think of a very little child who is just able to stand upright but does not yet know how to walk. Intent upon reaching the top of the stairs so as to get back to his mother he lifts his foot to climb the first step. Fruitless endeavor! At each attempt he falls without advancing in the least. Well, be like that little child; by the practice of every virtue keep on ever lifting your little foot to climb the steps of sanctity, and do not imagine that you will be able to mount even the first! No; but good will is all God requires of you. From the top of those steps He is watching you with love; and won by your unavailing efforts He will Himself soon come down, and taking you in His arms will bear you away to His Kingdom, never more to quit Him. But if you cease to lift your little foot He will leave you a long time on earth.'
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The key is to gaze into the loving Father's eyes with longing (Love), not giving up and playing with toys (detachment from comforts, possessions, power).
Stay at the foot of the stairs (perseverance in the evangelical virtues of poverty, chastity, obedience) gazing on His face (prayer).
He will come and lift you (Transforming union) if you persevere and abandon yourself.
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This is a beautiful explanation nsd! Thank you! I'm going to keep it and send it to my sister and daughter

padraig · Apr 11, 2024

maryrose said: ↑

I remember when he died over 30 priests came to celebrate his funeral Mass including a representative from the Bishop and he was buired in the priest's plot in the graveyard. It was extraordinary. He was a devoted Irish speaker so a teacher from his school organised his tombstone in Gaelic and there is picture of St Therese on it.
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This reminds me of Don Dolindo. They ordained him a priest and then never let him say Mass.

Seagrace · Apr 11, 2024

maryrose said: ↑

My mother's family had a strong devotion to St. Therese. My uncle Pádraig on my mother's side of the family never married. He had wanted to become a priest. He was born in 1914. At that time the regulations for being accepted into the seminary were very strict. They were a poor farming family and my mother was the only girl. Their father had died and money was scarce. My mother got a job looking after children in a wealthy family and she sent her earnings home to help her brother. He was accepted into Maynooth which was a great source of pride and joy to the family. At that time it was a 7 year program. In the early years he had a swimming accident and sustained a burst eardrum but he progressed OK. He always had extraordinary devotions to St Therese. At the end of year 6 he came home for summer holidays. He had actually been told that he would not be able to go forward as he was essentially deaf in one ear and that could be an impediment to his ability to hear confession. He did not know how tell the family and was praying to St Therese to help him. My mother saw a book in his room 'story of a soul' and started to read it and found the letter in the book so all was revealed. Funnily they had accepted the news when he was contacted again to tell him that they had changed their minds and he returned for his final year. Unbelievably the exact same scenario occurred just before ordination and my mother found the letter in the book again, so that was that. He went on to become a teacher. He founded a school and he was instrumental in helping many of his students to go forward for priesthood. He and my mother really had great devotion to Therese and in later years visited Liseuix every year. In recent years I have found her myself.
Sorry for being so long winded.
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No, Maryrose, not longwinded at all. A truly wonderful sharing. God has indeed set out special paths for each one of us.

Mario · Apr 12, 2024

non sum dignus said: ↑

The key is to gaze into the loving Father's eyes with longing (Love), not giving up and playing with toys (detachment from comforts, possessions, power).
Stay at the foot of the stairs (perseverance in the evangelical virtues of poverty, chastity, obedience) gazing on His face (prayer).
He will come and lift you (Transforming union) if you persevere and abandon yourself.
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non sum dignus,

Thank you; a wonderful insight! Therese was unflappable. When privileged to attend a papal audience, the determined lass broke protocol and knelt before Pope Leo XIII begging to be allowed permission to enter the Carmel a year earlier than was customary. Such audacity produced a chorus of gasps!

St. Therese, pray that we may possess the grace of humble simplicity!

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