Jesus wants the youth

Appeal
We continue our appeal for help with the new House of Prayer in Belmullet this month.  We just want to take this opportunity to thank you for all the help you have given us so far and to assure you that you are continually in our prayers.
The Messages
Jesus speaks about His Army once again in the Messages, they are emerging, a shoot appears:  “...The Way of My Sacred Heart begins.  It begins to break through the fertile soil of your hearts.  There is but a small shoot that appears now but it shall grow into a mighty cedar and you shall see the fruits of your labours.  You shall see the joy of My Heart as My children are drawn from the darkness...”  Tuesday 24 January 2012
Glimpses of a time
Within these Messages, Jesus excitedly gives us glimpses of a time coming which we have been chosen to be a part of, from the beginning of time.  He said He would not leave us orphans but we must trust in Him: “...You do not read these Words by accident.   There are no such things as accidents in My Kingdom. These Words have been given to you for I chose you at the beginning of time.  I called you and asked would you help Me and you agreed...”  Wednesday 25 January 2012
These new times that Jesus is speaking about is the beginning of Him taking the ground that lucifer has gained back off him and WE are called to be a part of that!
The youth
As you may have read, Jesus has given several Messages over these last months where He mentions His desire for a new House of Prayer in Belmullet.  Jesus wants this House for His young people, so that they may come to know Him.  He tells us that His young people have been neglected and even abandoned by His Church. 
On Wednesday 1 February, Jesus specifically said:  “...there is a false truth being taught within your schools and your churches. Yes, children, I say your for your children are no longer taught My Truth within your schools.  Your churches, that once were Mine, so many of them are no longer Mine but they are human churches where only self is celebrated...”
The young people
We have included some articles in this Newsletter which we hope convey the need for the young people of today to hear and see Jesus in what we do for them. 
However, these articles highlight only a few of the hurdles that young people are up against in these times.  There are many, many more.  They have no chance of ever getting to know Jesus and hearing the Truth unless we tell them. 
Abortion
Another theme that seemed to crop up a lot this month is that of abortion.  We all know the terrible crime that this is and the terrible effects that abortion has on the family of the baby killed, especially the mother.  Perhaps abortion is one of the greatest lies that our youth face today. 

Saturday 14 January 2012 Feast of Love
My children, I welcome you to My Heart.  I call you to see its openness this Day.  I call you to see the Love that flows from My Heart for you.
I ask of you to take that Love into this world for there is an ever increasing darkness that spreads like a disease. 
I ask you to be My Light.
I ask of you to be My Joy.
I ask of you to be My Light.
I ask of you to be My Love.
This world cries out for vengeance; the blood of the innocents cry out.  I ask of you to bring My Light into the darkness with My Love. 
Thursday 26 January 2012
The Light of My Love shines like many suns.  As the sun burns so does My Heart; its fuel is its Love.  Its Love is generous and Forgiving; its Light is knowledge for mankind.  Its Mercy flows like lava and continues to erupt, pouring more and more, the more that it erupts, the more the Love becomes impassioned.
These are the Treasures of My Heart that you seek.  There are many such Treasures there, seek them for they are sweet rivers that flow constantly and, in their constancy, they sustain mankind.  Your God, My child, is a generous God and a Forgiving One, He is a Judge that Loves.

Tuesday 3 January 2012
Look to the Truth, My children, and find Me.  Look how many Words I have spoken to you.  See how I care for you, My children, I do not leave you in danger.  Although many of you read My Words and do not take them on, you do not change your lives.
Can you not see how short your lives are?
Do you not see that these lives that you live are only preparation for your Life Eternal?
Wake up, My little ones, wake up and see the Truth.  Remove the scales from your eyes and come, walk with Me.  The more that you understand My Ways, the more the scales will fall from your eyes.  Come to Me in prayer and read My Scriptures; allow Me to Teach you the Truth, allow Me to show you the Way so that you will understand the Path that you must walk.
Come, My little children, I await you; there is little time left and there is much, much Work to be done.  Make haste, do not linger for many are being lost.  Come, My beloved, help Me in this Work of Salvation; help your brothers and sisters to see the Truth by your example.
The Great Awakening is about to take place and you are not prepared.  Spend much time in prayer and fasting so that you will be prepared so that you can become a soldier in the Army of Love.  We, together, shall march across this earth and reclaim that that has been lost: We shall gather the fallen into the Fold, there to be kept safe from the lies of lucifer.  Reclaim My Truth, My children, hold it in your hearts as a Banner of Love and do not falter for My Army rises.
I have set the Path of Truth, a Light before you for you to follow.  If you follow it, you will find the Truth and your hearts will burn with My Love and My Father and I shall reside within your hearts and whatever you ask in My Name shall be granted then this world shall know Me through you and your love of Me.
I Love you, My children, and I need your hands, your feet and your lips in this Work of Mine.  Come, I await your response to Me.  I Love you.
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Come, do not hold back any longer, My children, for there is much Work to be done and there are so few who are willing to do it.  I am depending upon you, My little one, you who read these Words.  Wake up now and see what I am asking of you, see the Truth.  Come walk with Me.  Allow Me to Teach you, allow Me to show you the Path for there is little time left and your brothers and sisters are in great danger.  I Love you, please help Me in this Work of Mine.  I Love you.
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Look only to Me and My Truth, children, do not be deceived by the lies of the evil one. My own shall recognise My Voice and My own know the Truth within their hearts.  So, do not be deceived.  Look to My Truth, look to the Truth of My Gospels and recognise the Footsteps that you must walk in.
My little ones, in order to get to know Me, you must read My Gospels so that you may see what I am asking of you so that you may see the Path that you must travel.  This is not a new Path that I ask of you, within these Words, it is the same Path that I walked when I was upon this earth; it is the Path that a servant must travel.  In order to be My follower, you must become the servant of all for, I did not come to be served, I came to serve and you must do likewise.
Now look at the Truth, My children, look at your lives: are you a servant or are you the master?  This is truth. A servant only obeys the master’s will.  Your brothers and your sisters, your neighbour, your friends, the stranger are all the master and you must serve them in truth by showing them that I am Alive in your life.  You must teach them through love for it is only through love that they, too, will walk this Path.
Come, My children, recognise My Voice and hide from Me no longer for there is much Work to be done, the harvest is ripe and must be gathered in. Come, beloved children of My Heart, and understand these Words for you are living in the last days of this time.  Begin now this Journey of Truth for I mean to return My people to the Path that I have lain down.  I Love you, My children, I Love you.
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Go out to the highways and the byways, children, and tell all that you meet that the Master calls them to the Great Feast.  I call all My children into the safety of My Fold for much is about to happen and My Words shall be fulfilled so the preparations must begin.  Come, beloved of My Heart, and listen to My calls.  Listen to the whispers within your hearts for it is I, calling you to the Feast.
I Love you, My children, I Love you and you must understand that these things must happen in order to bring creation back from the brink of destruction.  Recognise My Words; see the Truth and come, follow Me for there is much to be done and there are so few to do it.  My Army rises, children, My Army of Truth.  Will you be a part of it?  Be among its ranks?  I Love you, My children, and I ask you to make haste for there is so little time left to gather the harvest.  I Love you.
Saturday 7 January 2012
Come, My beloved, come walk with Me and We, together, shall bring many into My Kingdom.  Allow Me to Teach you My Ways allow Me to show you the Truth.  Come to Me in prayer, read My Scriptures, meditate on My Passion and say My Mother’s Rosary.
Do not allow yourselves to fall into complacency but always be willing to fight for My Truth.  Remove sin from your lives through many sacrifices.  The more that you sacrifice, the stronger you shall become and the more you will understand the Words that I speak.  It is only through prayer and sacrifice that the understanding will come for My inspirations will become clear within your hearts and you shall know My Truth.  You shall walk the Path of Light and all shall be revealed.
I Love you, My children, and I am calling you to the Truth, I am calling you to this vigil with Me.  Come, beloved of My Heart, and We, together, shall save many from the path of destruction that they now wander.  I Love you.
Saturday 7 January 2012
Come, beloved, see My Truth, know My Truth and be My Truth for I am calling you this day.  I am calling you out of the darkness and into the Light for you are My soldiers, you are My Truth and it is time for you to take up your cross for there is much Work to be done.  I am calling you, My chosen, I am calling you to walk with Me.  Yes, I speak to you who read these Words.  You are Mine and I am calling to you this day.  I am calling you to be a part of My Army of Love.  You are My chosen for these times.  You are the lights that I will shine in the darkness and once again My Truth will be seen and mankind will know the error of his ways.
I Love you, My children, and I am depending upon you to do this for Me.  I Love you.
Sunday 8 January 2012
Come to Me all you who are heavily laden and I will give you rest.  Do not worry about the things of this world but rather look to the things of My Life and you will find rest no matter how heavily burdened you are. All will pale in insignificance when you find New Life in Me.  I am calling out to you, My children, I am calling out for you to take on My Ways so that your lives will become simple in Me.
When you find Me, your burdens will dissolve and become nothing for in My Hands I can sort all things out in Truth.  Trust in Me, children, trust in My Love for you for I am your Father and you are My child and what father would not want to help his child?
Trust in Me, My little ones, for I am not as far from you as you think; you could not survive without My Spirit so think, children, I am with you at every second of every day.  I Love you, My children, and I ask you to come find Me within the silence of your heart and you surely will have rest.  I Love you, My beloved children, I Love you.
Sunday 8 January 2012
Your hearts are Mine, children, as soon as you take one step towards Me.  So many do not realise how to find Me.  So many wander from one place to another, from one book to another, from one Messenger to another, seeking Me, yet, not realising that they will find Me in the silence of their hearts.  Your hearts are My dwelling place, My children.  Sit with Me and feel within your heart and you shall surely find Me.  You will not find Me within this world for this world hates Me and My Ways.
Come, My little ones, listen to My Words and come sit with Me.
Allow Me to fill you.
Allow Me to show you the Path of Love, Truth and Righteousness.
Seek Me and you will find Me.
Come, I wait on the throne of your heart.  I Love you.
Monday 9 January 2012
Come, My beloved children, hear My calls.  Many things are about to happen and still you do not take heed of My Warnings.  Yes, I know, My children, it is hard to believe in these times as the evil one swamps this earth with his lies.  So few are willing to hold on to My Truth, so few are willing to trust in My Power and so few miracles are seen.  But, I tell you, My children, one will arise; one body with Me and My Power will be seen once again and it shall spread throughout the land as it did at My Resurrection.  I told you, My children, that I would not leave you orphans.  I prepare My children to do battle.  My Army will rise and the evil shall retreat and be driven from this earth.  So, I ask you, My children, to make haste, prepare for this Journey is soon upon you.  I Love you.
Monday 9 January 2012
Come now and listen to My Words.  Cast off the chains of this world and come follow Me for there is much preparation needed for the times ahead and you are not ready.  Look to My Footsteps, look to the Path that I have given to you, die to yourselves: die to the things of this world and take up your cross every day and follow Me for We, together, shall breathe New Life into this world.  It may seem that I am dead within this world but, I tell you, My children, I simply wait for the right time to show this world the error of its ways.  I have allowed the evil one to sift this world in order to remove the chaff.  Soon now, his time is at an end and I shall Come to retrieve My own.
I Love you, My children, and I do all things in order that Scripture be fulfilled so that you may see and understand that I have already spoken before the events take place.  Trust in Me and trust in My Love for you for, I have not deserted you, I simply wait so that many may see and be saved from the lies of lucifer.  I Love you.
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Look to My Truth, My little ones, and do not be afraid to come follow Me.  Read My Gospels and understand what I am telling you.  You have now entered the ‘Time of Revelation’ and many things must come to pass.  Stay close to Me in this time and do not fear for I am your God and I will look after you.
Come, My little children, do the things that I have asked of you and you shall see a New Life open before you.  I do not give you a new Path but this is the Path that I have spoken of when I walked this earth.  Come, now, and follow Me for many things are about to take place.  I Love you.
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Patrick:
I will tell you the truth, I have struggled greatly over the last month and a half to two months. I have fallen and got back up and fallen and got back up for I have allowed the world to influence me.  It is hard to stay focused upon the Path but, I know, that the evil one is trying to trip us up at every step of the way.  I begin to understand that the one who walks this Path and completes it will become very dangerous to the evil one for that person will become a man of faith that this world will no longer have a hold on.
This is what Jesus is asking of us: He is asking one of us to fight and go through this bitter struggle and become the spark that will ignite the War of Love.  As Jesus has said, it only takes one spark to make a forest fire and He is asking one of us to become that spark.
I begin to see and understand if we truly die to ourselves Jesus will fulfil that piece of Scripture where He says that His Father and Himself will reside within us and we may ask anything in His Name and it will be granted.  If one person takes this on and raises the Banner of Truth, many thousands shall flock to that person’s side and also become people of truth that the evil of this world will not be able to stand against.  This is why Jesus is saying, My Army rises for, finally, there are some who are listening and trying to die to themselves.  So, I say, struggle on and become that person, it does not matter which one of us it is as long as one of us becomes that spark that will shine Jesus’ Light into this world.
Tuesday 10 January 2012
All truth must be seen, My little ones, and all truth must be gained through the willingness of one’s free will to die to the desires of self.  The one that can overcome self will understand My Truth and, whatever they ask for in My Name, will be granted for all will be to the Glory of Our Father in Heaven.  My Words are Truth and very few have understood through the ages the Path that I have shown.  Now I point to it, I show you what you must do in order to overcome the evil of this world.
Come, My children, walk this Path and We, together, shall destroy the evil of this time and My Light shall bathe all creation and it shall be renewed.  Come, My beloved, I call you to battle, the Battle of Love where once again My creation will understand and see My Love through you.  I have no hands but your hands, no feet but your feet and no lips but your lips.  I ask you to open your hearts and allow Me to enter so that We, together, may renew all life.  I Love you.
Friday 13 January 2012
Come now, My children, listen to My Words and take on My Love.  Many Instructions I have given to you in order to live this life with Me.  Do not hide from Me any longer but believe in Me and take Me out into this world and find My lost children.  Once again, I tell you, it is by example that you will bring My little ones to My Side; not by forcing them to believe.  I have not forced you to believe in Me so neither should you force anyone to believe in Me.  Simply allow My Love to flow through you to My children: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give the thirsty a drink of water, love the angry, speak to the lonely, show patience with those who are impatient and trust in Me all the time.
Trust in My Love for you.  Feel Me within your heart and allow Me to lead you into the places that you must go.  I Love you, My children, I Love you and I am calling you to stand up for My Truth by the way that you lead your lives.  Be the example to those who do not know Me.  I Love you.
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Come, My little children, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened.  Do not believe the ways of this world for the way of this world will tell you that I cannot be found, that I am mythical, a thing of legend.
But, I tell you, My children, I have not deserted you.
I walk at your side.
I am with you at every moment of your lives.
I wish for you to take Me into your hearts so that We, together, can begin to rebuild this world.
I Love you, My children, believe in Me, have faith in Me, trust in Me and you shall see many changes come to pass.  I am calling out to each one of you, children, I am calling for you to open your hearts and allow Me to enter so that the Revolution of Love may begin in earnest.  I Love you.
Thursday 19 January 2012
Come, My beloved children, and take on this Path that I have given to you.  Take on this life that is your birthright and you shall know the benefits of My Love.  Do not avoid Me any longer for this world and its lies can give you nothing for the fruits of this world and its lies are but eternal death.  Come, My beloved children, listen to My Voice: listen to Me as I cry out to you and show you the Path of Truth that leads to My Father’s Kingdom.
Come, My beloved children, I need you, I need your prayers, your sacrifices for your brothers and sisters are falling headlong into the traps of lucifer in their blindness.  Come, My little children, listen to My Words.  I Love you.
Friday 20 January 2012
Look at My Ways and see the Truth.  I am calling My followers to take up the Gifts that I have given and go out into this world and show that I am Alive in you.  Do not be afraid to let this world see My Truth; do not be afraid to show this world that I am Alive in you.  Read My Word, My Scriptures and see what I have taught you.
Look at My Life and know the Truth and come, walk in My Footsteps.  There is much Work to be done, children, and there is little time to do it.  It is time to raise the Banner of Truth and march forward into this world.  The darkness believes that it has won the battle but I rally My troops into life and We, together, shall show this world that Love is not dead.  We, together, shall breathe new life into My people and My Church will begin to shine once again with My Truth.
Come, hear My calls, My children, do not be afraid to walk forward; do not be afraid to march with Me for this world will be tamed and its lies shall be swept away in the Light of My Truth.  My Army rises, children.  Soon, I shall call My two and they shall walk this earth and My Light shall be seen.  I Love you.
Saturday 21 January 2012
My children, I am Coming soon and you must ask yourselves this question, am I prepared?
Look to the Truth and look around you, your times are changing rapidly.  Greed is building throughout this world; throughout the governments of this world and they begin to look at each other with greed in their eyes.
Prepare, My little ones, for there are hard times ahead; these times will be brought about by man’s own indifference to his God.  If you have not got Me to protect you then you are fair game for the influence of lucifer.  It is only through My Truth that you can find protection from his influence; his deceit and his lies.
Come, My beloved children, allow Me to Teach you the Path of Truth; allow Me to show you the reality of this world that you live in.
Come to Me!
Come to Me often in prayer and allow Me to fill your hearts with My Truth so that you may see and so show others the way to travel.
I Love you, My children, I am calling out to you in these Words of Love.  I am calling, ever calling.  I Love you.
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Have confidence in Me, children, have confidence in your God and do not allow yourselves to become confused but allow Me to Teach you the Truth of My Ways.  Allow Me to show you a New Way; a Way of Love.  A Way that you will understand what I am speaking of.
You allow fear to control you.  Fear is lack of trust and faith in Me, your God.  When you begin to understand Me, you will no longer fear for you will understand that all things are in My Hands and I am guiding you.
Trust in Me, children, trust in Me your God for I am with you in this time that you give to Me, I am with you each step of the way.  Do not allow doubts to take you away from this Path that I guide you on; do not allow doubts to destroy the inspirations that I give to you.  Hold on to My Truth within your hearts and believe that I am with you and you shall begin to see the changes that I have spoken of.
The Way of My Sacred Heart begins.  It begins to break through the fertile soil of your hearts.  There is but a small shoot that appears now but it shall grow into a mighty cedar and you shall see the fruits of your labours.  You shall see the joy of My Heart as My children are drawn from the darkness.
Trust in Me, My little ones; trust in My Love; trust in My Way.  Offer Me little sacrifices and tell no one but Me for We, together, walk this Path of Truth and We, together, shall blossom and bloom into this world.  I Love you.
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Come, beloved children, open your hearts to Me and allow Me to sing a Lovesong of Truth.
Allow Me to show you a new way: a Way of Love, a Way of Humility.
Allow Me to show you the Way of Peace.  The Peace that surpasses all understanding!
I stand with an outstretched Hand, waiting for you to walk with Me.
Come, My beloved children, I am Jesus, the God of Peace and I offer Peace to your hearts this day. I offer you My Love and My confidence so that We, together, can walk forth into the dark places of this world and shine My Light.  I await your response to Me, children.  Come walk with Me.  I Love you.
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Come, My beloved children, I await your response to My calls.
I wait to hear My Lovesong return to Me from your hearts.
I listen every second of every day for you, My child, for your heart to begin singing a sweet song of love to Me, your God.
I Love you, My little children, I Love you.
I need you; I need you to come to Me; I need your help; I need your hands, your feet and your lips for there are so many in great danger and so few to help them.
Listen to My calls and answer.
Do not worry for I will show you the Path of Truth.
I will show you the Path that you must take in order to do My Work.
Trust in Me, your God, and do not be afraid for I am with you.
I will not leave you orphans.  I will not desert you.  Allow Me to Teach you and show you the Path of Love.  I Love you.
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Allow Me into your hearts, My children.
Allow Me to sing My Song of Love to you, My beloved child.
You do not read these Words by accident.
There are no such things as accidents in My Kingdom.
These Words have been given to you for I chose you at the beginning of time.
I called you and asked would you help Me and you agreed.
Understand, My child, understand My Lovesong.
Do you not feel it burn within your heart as you read these Words of Mine?
Come, the harvest is ready and the labourers are few.
I need your hands, your feet and your lips for you are surely Mine.
We have much Work to do and little time to do it, so do not delay, My child.
I, your God, am calling you.  I Love you.
Thursday 26 January 2012
Jesus:
Have faith in Me, My children, and do not be afraid of anything; there is nothing in this world that can go against you when you are with Me.  Trust in Me, My children.  Trust in My Love for you and do not fear.  All I see in this world is fear.  Fear is sent by the evil one in order to draw you away from Me.  I Love you, My children, all you have to do is trust in Me, your God.  Trusting in Me is believing that all is in My Hands and that you are cocooned within My Heart.  I Love you, My children, I Love you.
Patrick:
Thank You, Jesus, I love You.
Friday 27 January 2012
Patrick:
We must always look to the Truth if we want to follow this Path for Jesus.  We can never turn away from the Path for, as Jesus says, clean water and dirty water cannot come from the same pipe.  Once we set foot upon this Path, we must continue until the day that Jesus calls us to Him.  We must look only to Him and His Ways.  This is a preparation for the Kingdom of God, this is gathering treasure in Heaven; we must work tirelessly towards this, constantly offering sacrifice so that He can use us to do His Work.
Jesus:
Look to the Truth, My little children, and do not be afraid for I am the Lord, your God, calling to you this day.  Come, walk with Me.
Allow Me to show you the Truth; allow Me to show you what this world is doing to My children. Come, beloved of My Heart, I am calling you in these times to see the Truth of My Ways.  I ask that you enter the Path of dying to self so that I may use you to do My Work.  There are so many who are in need and there are so few who are willing to help.
Come, beloved of My Heart, and do not delay, answer My calls this day and enter this Path.  Begin the fire of love and allow Me to burn away the things that hold you back from Me; the things that this world has placed between you and I.
Come, My beloved children, I am calling to you this day.
Come and hear My calls; I await.  I Love you.
Friday 27 January 2012
Now is the time, My children, that I call you forward.  Come into the Light: do not walk but run towards Me.  Look to the Truth and do not allow yourselves to be deceived any longer.  I am calling My children out; I am calling you out into this Battle.  Do not allow the evil one to draw you into complacency any longer; stand up for the Truth, My children, and do not be deceived.  I, the Lord, your God, am calling.  Go now and do as I have Commanded for, My Armies stir.  I Love you.
Friday 27 January 2012
Come, My little children, look into the depths of your heart and see the Truth of the Words that I speak.  Do not delay any longer but come, follow Me for I am your God and I am calling out to you in these Words.  There is little time left to you and still you have not taken on My Words, My Truth.
Open your hearts, My beloved children, and see what I am saying to you.  See My Truth, see My Way and see My Life.  My children are in need and there are very few who are willing to help them. Be My Hands, My Feet and My Lips.
Show My little ones that I am Alive in you.
Show My little ones that My Love is not dead in this world.
Come, beloved children of My Heart, and see My Truth.  See what I am saying to you.  I Love you.
Sunday 29 January 2012
Look to the Truth, My children, and see what I am saying to you.  Read My Words and allow them to penetrate your hearts.  So many of you read My Words and do nothing with them.  My Words are like a hobby to you, something to be collected but never used.
My Words are Living Water, they are a Fire that will penetrate deep into the darkness and so bring Light.  Do you not realise, My children, I set a Path for all to follow?  This Path can only be travelled by those who are willing to die to themselves.  Look at My Apostles, look at My Saints, look at the marvels that I was able to work through them.  This Path is open to all of you, children, if you are willing to die to yourselves.
My ‘one’ is about to show you the Truth and bear witness to these Words of Mine for, too long, has the evil one been allowed to control this world.  I am about to ignite My Army of Love and this world will be thrown into confusion as they realise I am Alive.  Many will deny Me in this time for they will be unwilling to give up the ways of this world but many more shall return to their God and Love shall be seen and felt once more upon this earth.
Come, My beloved children, walk this Path with Me for We have much Work to do.  I Love you.
Monday 30 January 2012
Trust in Me, My children, trust in My Love for you for, I stand with an open Heart waiting for you to return to Me.  Come, My beloved children, and listen to My calls; listen and understand that your God is speaking to you through these Words.
I Love you, My children, and I need you in this Work of Salvation.  I need your hands, your feet and your lips in order that I can go out into this world and show My little children that I have not forgotten them.
Come to Me and give yourself to Me.  Cast off the shackles of this world, fight against the desires of self and allow Me to Teach you in the Ways of your God.  I Love you, My beloved children.  I Love you.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Come now, My beloved children, and listen to My calls.  Listen as I call out to you in this ever darkening world.  Come, My beloved children, walk with Me, walk this Path of Truth that I give to you.  I give it from the depths of My Heart so that you might have True Life in Me, your God.
I am calling, ever calling to you, My beloved, so that you might see the Truth and know the Ways of your God.
Dark times are upon you, My children, times that My Truth is no longer taught but, rather, there is a false truth being taught within your schools and your churches. Yes, children, I say your for your children are no longer taught My Truth within your schools.  Your churches, that once were Mine, so many of them are no longer Mine but they are human churches where only self is celebrated.
Open your eyes and see the Truth: My Way is a Way of self dying: a Way of Love where everyone is greater than yourself.  Is this taught any longer, My children?
Come, now, listen to My calls and allow Me to Teach you the True Path that leads to My Father’s Kingdom.  I ask you to gather treasure, treasure in the Kingdom of your God.  Do not look to the ways of this world and its wealth for it is nothing in My sight; it is nothing in the Kingdom of Our Father.
Look only to the good of others; be the servant of all, the master of none.  Be My hands, My feet and My lips; carry Me out into this world so that My children can see that I, Jesus, the Son of the Living God, live within your heart.
Come, My beloved children, allow Me to show you this Path; allow Me to Teach you the Truth; allow Me to help My children through you.  I have no hands but your hands, no feet but your feet and no lips but your lips.  Allow Me the freedom that I need, My little ones, for I will not overstep the bounds of free will for this is Our Gift to you.  I Love you, I Love you, I Love you, My beloved children, I Love you.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Come now and see My Words of Truth; see the Light of My Love as it shines forth from these Words.
Allow Me to Teach you, My children, allow Me to show you the True Path that you must take in order to break down the chains that hold you.
Come, My beloved children, come walk this Path of Love so that We, together, may begin the Revolution of Love that will bring Light to the nations.  My Truth shall shear through the darkness and freedom shall be found once again upon this earth and mankind shall know the Way, the Truth and the Light of his God.
I Love you, My beloved children, I Love you.
Come follow in My Footsteps; take up your cross every day and walk with Me for We have much Work to do and so little time to do it.  I need you in this Army of My Love.  I need you to show this world that I am Alive and that My Truth is not dead.
Come, My little ones, do not deny Me any longer but open your hearts to Me this day so that I may breathe new Life into you.  I Love you.

Appeal... For the youth
For weeks, we have been feeling the call of Jesus to do, urgently, the things that He needs done. These calls seem overwhelming when faced with the financial burden of all the things that He needs to be done in this world. Asking Him about these things, the answer that He gave is contained in this Message. He speaks of our (the Patricks’) fear and lack of faith:
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Patrick: Jesus, why do I feel these things? They are beyond my understanding of what You want.
Jesus:
My servant, I Love you. I call you in many ways. I call you in the depths of your heart and your heart feels these things. Within you I Am. You feel My Anguish that My children do not listen as they should, you feel the many things that I need to be in place and are not even begun, you feel the Pain that is in Me for the world.
What you feel is the many places that call to you that need what I have given you both; you feel the time as it passes and nothing is done.
Yes, My servant, you feel that you must go and go you must but you are too little to do all of it. What needs to be done, the pile reaches the Heavens. But, I tell you, I, alone, can do all things; the more that you give Me, the more that I can do.
Your heart is open and, because it is open, you feel these things. I will show you where you must go. It is your fear and lack of faith that makes you not see. I Love you.
We, the Patricks, thank you for your prayers and any financial help that you can give us at this time. We place you always in our prayers. May the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus shower you with His Love.

Wednesday 7 December 2011
Patrick:
Jesus, I love You. Will You please speak about Your new House?
Jesus:
My servant, as I have told you in the past, I carry on with My Plans regardless of fragile, weak, human spirits. My Plans for this world are through My Houses. I gather them as refuges, each one is My Heart upon this earth. When the times come, I will have prepared for those who need them most. I Am is the Lord, your God.
My young people know Me little; they have been neglected by My Church, they have been left to run wild. I intend to show them, through this House, that I am Alive and that I Love them. Many pray to Me for their young: In this House, I answer many prayers. I ask of your help in this.
This House will be where My young shall know My Love. I ask that a few, simple prayers be said with them before and after their activities there. I ask too, that a small room be laid aside as a place of prayer and communication with Me. Organise these activities in a spirit of prayer and do not neglect it for I wish My young to know Me as a God of Love. Let this be done.
My children, I need your help. I Love you.

Saturday 24 December 2011
Appeal
My children, I call upon your help in securing this House1 for My little ones. Come and listen to My calls, listen to My Pleas within your heart. Time is short and there is much work to be done. I have not forgotten My promises. These Houses of Mine are the little Lights that I set into this world, they will become the beacons that will call many to My Side but, first, they must be prepared.
Come, beloved of My Heart, and open your hearts to Me in this Work of Mine. I Love you.
1 The new John Paul the Second Youth House in Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

Sunday 1 January 2012 Solemnity of the Mother of God From Mary
My children, it is your Mother who speaks. My children, the night is long and the Journey is long and fraught with much danger. How will you see your way if you have no one to guide you? How will you know where you are going if only self guides you?
On this dark road, you need the Light to help you see. Jesus is the Light. His Heart is an Open Wound from which pours out much Light. Look to Him.
He stands atop every mountain, shedding His Light: He waits for you at every bend in the road, waiting for you to come. Look to the Light of God for He has come into the world to bring Light. His Word is the Father’s Word: He utters and Jesus comes forth. Jesus brings the Light so that mankind will see. He is a Great Torch that has been raised on high so that ALL may see; the good and the bad.
As the Light shines upon you, so it enlightens you with the knowledge that the Light is Love and Love came to bring the Light. The Light calls you to Love.
My Son is calling to you. He calls you to bring His Light across the world in the form of the stepping stones that He places there: His Houses, His refuges. He calls you to be there; to perform the simple act of opening the door for His children. The Houses are His Heart and He gives you the singular Grace of opening it to receive the lost ones. Let not this Grace be given in vain. Allow Him to be pleased with your yes to Him in all things; your effort in making Him known and loved in this world.
I thank you for allowing Me to stir your heart into action for the Glory of Our Father in Heaven. I Love you, My little children.

What chance has the youth of today to know the Truth?

Not been taught
In 2001, Jesus said that  “…A generation has arisen now that has not been taught My Ways and do not walk in My Footsteps.  Only fear will bring them to My Side.  They are all but lost to Me…” Tuesday 21 August 2001
When I look at our young people today, this is exactly what I see, a generation who has no idea about God.  There does not seem to be any moral boundaries to guide these young people; everything is left up to their own conscience.
Well and good
This is all well and good in the face of free will and all that but, to my mind, free will is about making informed choices.
It is as though the Scales of Justice have been tipped for too long and tipped in lucifer’s favour.  How can our young people make informed choices when they only get one side of the argument?
Do they know
What are our young people being taught?  Do they know right from wrong?  If there is no God then who sets the boundaries of right and wrong? 
On what exactly do our young people base their opinions on what is morally right and morally wrong?  Is it a case of ‘if it feels good, then it is ok?’ 
Honestly say
I could honestly say that had I been left solely to my own conscience, I could have justified anything to myself - and I mean anything -especially through those teenage years when you go through puberty and your body and hormones are changing.  We all need some sort of boundaries to guide us so that we can choose between right and wrong. 
Let us take a look at what our young are bombarded with while they are growing up in these days.
Primary one
From as young as primary one, that is the tender age of five, some primary schools introduce our children to ‘sex education.’  Why a five year old would need to know anything at all about sex is completely beyond me, however, people with obviously more intelligence and knowledge than I decided that this should be the case and so our children are taught about sex.  What is quite ironic about this is that at the time it was being introduced into the primary school in Belfast where I am from, it was priests and nuns who were going round the Catholic primary schools promoting it.  What ever happened to the age of innocence?
Contraception
As our children grow older, they are taught all about ‘safe sex’ and contraception.  They learn this in sex education and through the sciences, i.e. biology.  So they are first told what to do then they are told that they basically can have sex without any consequences because there are condoms available free to prevent them from catching STI’s and there are many forms of artificial contraception which will protect against unwanted pregnancies.  So, no need to worry.  Have fun and pleasure and enjoy life to the full.  After all, that’s what life is all about, isn’t it?
Abortion
And then, if something goes wrong and a girl gets pregnant, there is always abortion to take care of that little problem.  No one need know, no harm done.  Any family planning clinic and most doctors will help her if she ‘chooses’ this course of action.  She needn’t feel bad because her parents do not have to know anything about it and all she is really doing is getting rid of a clump of cells.
Homosexuality
And, of course, we cannot discriminate against anyone in this free society.  Our children should be exposed to homosexuality also because if they are gay, then they need to know that that is OK also.  According to the Daily Mail, (Monday 28 March 2011), children as young as eleven were to be asked if they are gay and this without their parents’ consent.  This is a study that is commissioned by the government where teachers, nurses and youth workers are being urged to monitor adolescent sexual orientation because, apparently, children from as young as eight can begin to question their sexuality and apparently we need a record of this because it will help to prevent them from becoming victims of discrimination later on.
Risen dramatically
Interesting to note that since all these ‘freedoms’ and ‘rights’ have been introduced, free sex,  contraception, abortion etc, the numbers of teenagers with sexually transmitted diseases, having unwanted pregnancies, taking the morning after pill  or later having abortions, has risen dramatically in the last twenty years.
Teach morality or chastity
Interesting also, that we never hear of a government initiative set up to teach morality or chastity. 
There is no counterbalance.
Television
However, it is not just from outside influences that our children are attacked.  On Wednesday 10 March 2004, Jesus said:
“…Do you not realise what is happening?  Can you not see what lucifer is doing?  Look around you!  All is in turmoil.  You murder your children before they are born; you feed your children with the lies of lucifer through your televisions; sex, lust, pornography, homosexuality, greed, adultery.  satanism and all sorts of perversions are fed through your televisions that you sit in front of and worship for endless hours at a time…”
Conditioned
We allow our children to be subjected to the propaganda and lies of the television.  Most of our teenagers will watch the soaps.  These promote every sin that we should be in fear of.  We watch the television and do not even realise that we are being brainwashed and conditioned into a certain way of thinking.  Ask almost any teenager if they think there is anything wrong with sex outside of marriage, or abortion in certain circumstances, or artificial contraception, or homosexuality.  They almost certainly will answer you ‘no.’  The reason for this is that they are not given the Truth.  They have not got the counterbalance to fight with, to base informed decisions on.  It is like a multiple choice question with fifty percent of the answers missing.  How can that be fair?
Call you a liar
There are so many false gods out there; materialism, education, lust, greed, self, looking good and sexy, etc, etc.  These are all things that we teach our children as a matter of routine.
Where can they go to hear the Truth?  Even if, as a parent, you try to give your child the Truth, there is no back up.  The television, the media, the schools, all call you a liar by what they teach. 
Moral guidance
We cannot even rely on our church leaders for the few that do speak out are pushed out to country parishes where no one will hear them and be offended by what they teach.  I certainly do not hear the moral guidance that I crave my children to hear being preached from the altars of the churches that I go to.  My children, I know now, are only going to hear the Truth from me.
Taught heresy
On Friday 12 March 2004, Jesus said:
“…They teach children these falsities and they do not teach them the Truth.  A whole generation is being lost to Me as I speak; they are being lost because they are taught heresy.  These innocents believe what they are told because heretics are placed in positions of trust to spread the lies and thus they are lost to Me.  I have spoken many Words that are contained in Scripture but even these are lost for they are changed into something other than what they are.  Intelligent people shun the Truth in favour of the lies; with their intelligence they will not see.  They wear My Cross of Love around their necks but it is only a symbol, a metal symbol, of what they once believed in for now they believe no more.
They have no reward to receive for they reap now what they have sown.  Those who continue to believe in the Truth will have their reward of Eternal Life.  For I have spoken Words that are not believed.”
Shame on us
A whole generation is being lost to Jesus.  Well, shame on us.  Will our souls be required for the payment of the loss of so many?
Let our young people down
We may have let our young people down but, as Jesus said, He will never leave us orphans.  My heart soared with joy when on Wednesday 7 December 2011, Jesus gave this Message.
“...My young people know Me little; they have been neglected by My Church, they have been left to run wild.  I intend to show them, through this House, that I am Alive and that I Love them.  Many pray to Me for their young: In this House, I answer many prayers.  I ask of your help in this.
This House will be where My young shall know My Love.  I ask that a few, simple prayers be said with them before and after their activities there.  I ask too, that a small room be laid aside as a place of prayer and communication with Me.  Organise these activities in a spirit of prayer and do not neglect it for I wish My young to know Me as a God of Love.  Let this be done.
My children, I need your help.  I Love you...”
So much more
Jesus has said it all in these few Words.  He needs our help.  It is not simply getting the money together to purchase this House but there is so, so much more to what Jesus needs in this.  There are the people who will sacrifice hours, days nights and weeks to learning the water sports so that they can teach Jesus’ children, so that in this way they can bring a little bit of Jesus to them.  There will be so much giving required to make this work but Jesus is worth it.  His young people are worth it.  He said that in this House He answers many prayers.  What more can be said?
A school trip
I would just like to finish by saying that on the Day of Love this year, one of our guest speakers spoke of how he came to the House of Prayer.  Among other things, he told us of how he had organised a school trip to the House of Prayer a few years ago where all the children partook of pottery, some water sports, the wood turning and various others things that Jesus had set up.
None of us really know what Jesus did for those children in that time but they did see a different way of life than what this world portrays, a life that includes Jesus.  As the speaker said, we do not know what seeds Jesus planted and how these children may call upon them later on in their lives at a time when they need it.
All can help
The last line of that Message was Jesus saying, “...My children, I need your help.  I Love you...”
We can all help.  Some of us will be in a position to help financially, others will be able to help by volunteering our time and all of us will be able to help by offering unseen prayers and sacrifices.
Let us never forget or underestimate the power of prayer and sacrifice for our young people, after all they are the future.

Monday 3 January 2005
...My servant, I am here with you.  I Love you and I thank you for what you are doing.  Seeing these images of untruth are harrowing for you but I call you to do it.  My people do not yet see the truth of what abortion does to them, even though they are not directly involved.  The sin of abortion weighs heavily on the world and it gives lucifer the right to do many things because sin gives him that power.  This is why I call for many to return to Me before it is too late.
The world calls so loud now that I must shout even louder to be heard.  What used to be a sin is now a right, what used to be love is now sex.  There are so many excuses made around sin that a sin has now lost its meaning.  This is why I call so many to follow Me.
I give My Heart to the world: I tear it from My Breast in order for them to see what I am telling them but they refuse to listen.  All things must be done in truth if any is to be saved for even My own blind themselves to the truth and reality of their own sin...
Discussions on abortion and euthanasia
Whilst I was reading this Message, I thought of the youth of today’s sex-filled world - what chance do they have of knowing the Truth?
I am now thirty five years old and I remember in the early 1990s sitting in a Religion class at school, led by our daily Mass attending teacher, into having discussions on abortion and euthanasia.  I came away from those classes believing that it was alright to have an abortion in the case of rape and that if a person wanted to die, there was nothing wrong with aiding that person to die when they wanted. 
No one there
I now know the Truth that both cases are murder and can never be justified.  I shudder at the way I thought back then in my young selfish teenage years and remember no one being there to tell me what the Truth was.  I was left to form my own unguided, world-filled opinions which everyone around me accepted. 
I believe I only know the Truth from reading the Messages of Love and being in a House of Prayer.
He can do it through us
Twenty years on, Catholic schools have changed: the religious nuns that taught us have passed away or retired and convent schools are more like exclusive expensive businesses so the likelihood of the teenagers being taught the Truth is even slimmer than it was in my day!
I suppose it makes me value and appreciate Jesus’ Houses of Prayer so much because I can really see what Jesus is trying to do.  There is such a need for the Truth to be told in this world today and, if we cooperate with Him, He can do it through His Houses, He can do it through us.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Book Nine
Recently while preparing Message Book Nine for printing, we came across this Message.  In light of the recent request of Jesus to attain the House of Prayer in Belmullet for His young people, we thought that it would be good to print this Message again. 
Wednesday 25 February 2004
My children of this world, I speak to you the Truth.  I speak to you of how the world has encroached My Church.  A child, My people, who is at the age when much can be learned of Me is a sweet innocent. 
In these days, many of these children are abused in many ways but, I tell you, the greatest sin that you commit, My people, is not to teach them of Me and My Ways.  It has been decided to teach My children less of Me and more of atheism.  The people who decided this are clearly not of Me for I did not teach atheism; I spoke only of My Father and believing in Him.  How, from the evidence within the Scriptures and the evidence of many Messages around the world, can you say that I would teach atheism to the innocent?  You have decided for yourself that these children learn not of Me but of the evil one for atheism is a nothingness, a choosing to be away from Me.
You, My children, who know this truth must come out against this teaching for it is surely not of Me.  If you have any common sense at all, you will realize that this is another trick of the evil one.  How, I ask you, can these people, who purport to be so intelligent and sit in high seats of religion, come to this conclusion?  What kind of intelligence is this, that a God who Died for His people would allow His people to do this?  What do you make Me out to be?  Your intelligence has made you stupid; your intelligence has made you incoherent, has made you into a servant of the evil one.  Have I not said that it would be better if a millstone were tied around the necks of those who made these little ones stumble?  I did not say these Words for nothing.
The plight of our youth
I think this Message highlights very effectively the plight of our youth.  Our youth are not in danger of starvation; they do not lack water or food as so many children in other poorer countries.  They do not lack education or prospective futures as doctors, nurses, builders or whatever they want to be, these are all within their reach.
Grave and deadly danger
But our youth suffer from a very grave and deadly danger.  They are not taught the Truth.  They are not taught about Jesus and His Salvation and His Truth. 
This is a great spiritual danger.
As a Christian, I think it is a very cold-hearted and wicked thing to do to send a child out to face life doubting whether or not there is a God.
Life can be very hard for most of us at some time or another and many times I do not know how I would have survived had I not had Jesus to lean on.  There is a song, “Because He Lives” which describes what I am trying to say. 
Because He Lives
It goes like this:
God sent His Son, they called Him Jesus,
He came to Love, heal and Forgive.
He Lived and Died, to buy my pardon.
An empty grave is there to prove my Saviour lives.
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow.
Because He lives, all fear is gone,
Because I know He holds the future
And life is worth the living just because He lives.

How sweet to hold a newborn baby,
And feel the pride and joy he gives
But greater still, the calm assurance
This child can face uncertain days because He lives.

And then one day, I’ll cross the river
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain
And then as death gives way to victory
I’ll see the lights of glory and I’ll know He lives.
Says it all
This song, for me, says it all.  It is not fair to take that away from our young people by not teaching with surety that Jesus Lives and is ALWAYS there for them.
Equality and freedom
We talk so much about equality and freedom of choice.  Can nobody see that there is no freedom or equality when you are not allowed to teach children about their Creator who Loves them?
A different way
It is good to remind ourselves why this new House is necessary.  Our youth need to have the option of seeing a different way, of seeing that Jesus Loves them and that He does not take away their freedom and fun, no, He gives it and He gives it in a way that protects their immortal souls.

Eyewitness to abortion
Interview by AMANDA CABLE, Daily Mail

I read the following article in the Daily Mail and I thought it would be good to print it in our Newsletter.  It is the testimony of a woman whose daughter had an abortion.  I feel that this testimony highlights the effect the whole notion of our ‘rights’ before anyone else’s has had on our youth.  Too me, this girl is simply a victim of ‘society’s truth’ and not Jesus’.  I would also say that although the mother tried to convince her not to have the abortion, she was very much on her own for when you are told by health professionals, by school teachers, etc, that abortion is ok, and it doesn’t suit you to have a child then why would you keep it when you think you are doing nothing wrong?  If something is legal then it gives the impression that it is ok.
The one thing about abortion is that it can never ever be fixed.  Yes, God can and will Forgive you if you only ask but never will that child be given another chance to come into the world again; never will you be given the chance to be that child’s mother, father, granny etc. again.
One more little thing I would like to add is that the grandmother in this article, although against abortion, states that she accepts that there are certain circumstances when abortion is necessary.  From my point of view, I have to say, that I do not agree with this statement.  I do not believe that there is any reason that an abortion is necessary in this age of technological advancement but I did not want to leave out or change one word of this woman’s testimony.

Traumatic times:
Camilla Wilton watched her daughter have an abortion
My first granddaughter would have been six by now.  I often watch children in the local playground and wonder what she would have been like.  Other times, at night, I dream about her vividly, and know the answer.
Blonde-haired, blue-eyed and with a shy smile. Time and time again, I dream that she has just been born, and as she is handed to me, I name her Katie. Just as my heart is about to burst with joy, I wake up and realise that she does not exist.
I shall never know my granddaughter because her life was extinguished before it even had a chance to begin.
The life of her unborn baby
Seven years ago, I took the heartbreaking decision to accompany my teenage daughter to a private abortion clinic where - at twenty four weeks and just inside the legal limit - the life of her unborn baby was terminated.
Despite my efforts, I couldn’t talk my child out of her decision and, faced with the agonising choice of going with my daughter or leaving her to go through the ordeal alone, I went with her.
Fear, pain and suffering
The fear, pain and suffering of the scared teenage girls ushered into that clinic haunt me still, though goodness knows I’ve tried hard to bury those memories.
But the recent case of the fifteen year old girl who wrote about her secret abortion in her diary brought everything flooding back.
I have always been against abortion unless there are genuine medical reasons. I’m not deeply religious but I do believe that it is taking a life.  Even when I became pregnant myself at the age of forty one, I refused any tests to see if my unborn baby had Down’s syndrome.
Despite the risks associated with my age, I knew I would continue with the pregnancy, because I could never face a late termination, no matter what handicap a child might have.
Perfectly healthy
My now teenage son was born perfectly healthy and, just like his older brothers and sister, he’s had everything that money can buy - the best private education, two foreign holidays a year and a five-bedroom detached home.  Of all my four children, my beautiful blonde daughter, Susie, was the most outgoing. 
Never conceive
A talented classical musician, she left her private girls’ school with three A-levels and moved to London to share a flat with friends.
I knew I would miss her but I told myself that her boyfriend, a young actor, would look after her.  They had been dating for three years - since she was sixteen - and they were deeply in love.
The only sadness in her young life had been a diagnosis of endometriosis, a painful condition affecting the lining of the womb. Doctors had told Susie that she would never conceive a baby naturally.
I was devastated but, with her life revolving around her job as a sales manager at Harvey Nichols, designer outfits and parties, she said she didn’t feel maternal.  If she felt like having a baby when she was older, she argued, she could have fertility treatment.
Daughter fell pregnant
Susie was nineteen when she came home for a week in January 1997, complaining of stomach pains.  She looked pale and lethargic, so I took her to the family doctor and waited outside in my car. When she came out, she was ashen-faced, and I knew immediately that something was wrong.
She asked me just to drive home and not to speak. Then as soon as we walked inside, she burst into tears and said: “I’m pregnant.” She started to shake and, instinctively, I took her in my arms and started reassuring her that everything would be OK - I would help her through it.
We would help
As I hugged her, my mind was already racing, trying to find a solution.  I knew immediately that if Susie couldn’t cope with the baby, I would step in.
That evening, when my husband came home from work, I sat him down and told him the news. He was concerned for Susie but agreed with me.
We had a spacious home and plenty of money.  If Susie couldn’t care for her child, we would help her in any way we could.
Determined
The following day, she went to hospital for a scan.  It was then that we learned she was twenty three weeks pregnant.  We were completely shocked.  We had assumed it would be around fifteen weeks.  This was also when Susie announced that she was determined to have an abortion - even though it was incredibly late and just one week short of the twenty four week legal limit.
It made my stomach churn
Over the next few days, I did everything I could to try to talk her out of the decision, offering every alternative I could think of.
But she didn’t want my husband and I to raise her child.  She said she would always come home and feel guilty, knowing that the baby was with us.
I suggested adoption but she couldn’t face the thought of a baby out there somewhere, haunting her for the rest of her life.  Having had scans when I was expecting my own children, I knew how well formed the baby would be.  I lay awake at night, thinking of it kicking inside her.  It made my stomach churn.
Boyfriend’s intervention
After three days, Susie’s boyfriend came and asked me to stop trying to change her mind.  He said: “We are too young.  We don’t want to get married and she can’t cope with the responsibility. Please let us make our own choice.  You are putting pressure on her, and it’s making things worse.”
Our options
Meanwhile, the doctor warned us that our options for such a late termination were limited.  No local hospitals or clinics would perform such a procedure so far into a pregnancy but a private clinic in South London would.
We were given the telephone number.  I was still desperately trying to talk my daughter out of her decision.  But one afternoon, as I went to speak to her in her bedroom, she became hysterical.
Started to scream
She started to scream: “I can’t do this. Whatever you say, I can’t go through with this pregnancy.  If you can’t help me, I’ll go to London on my own and have it done.”
In that instant, I realised that Susie would rather kill herself than go through with the pregnancy.  And I knew that, as her mother, there was only one thing I could do - I put my arms around her and told her that whatever happened, I would stay with her.
Horrified at the number
That afternoon, with a heavy heart, I called the private clinic to arrange a termination.
Two days later, I drove Susie down to London.  We had been asked to check in at the clinic, the evening before, for tests and had been given details of a nearby guesthouse where we could spend a quiet night before the operation.
The clinic looked like an upmarket nursing home.  It was a large detached house, with a brass nameplate and a car park.  Inside, we found ourselves in a packed waiting room.  I was horrified at the number of teenage girls waiting for scans.
No cheques allowed
We were asked to hand over £700 in cash - no cheques allowed - and Susie and I were called into a Portakabin around the back for a scan. My stomach was doing leapfrogs and I thought: “I can’t bear to see this.”  Susie was shivering as she lay on the bench and she clasped my hand tightly.

Picture of the scan
Incredibly, the scanning lady asked Susie if she wanted a scan picture to keep.  She shook her head and I kept looking down.  I knew that if I saw the screen I would burst into tears and if I cracked, Susie would go to pieces.
When we were finished I drove us to a hotel where we would spend a near sleepless night before returning to the clinic the following day for the termination.
Realise what she’s done
Susie kept saying she was nervous and I lay awake thinking: “She won’t realise what she’s done until she is grown up and has children herself.”
The next morning, I felt so awful that I couldn’t even drink a cup of tea. We arrived at the clinic at 8am, to be greeted by a nurse who said briskly: “Say goodbye to your mum, we’ll take you to your ward.”  When I told her I wasn’t leaving, she was clearly displeased but we were taken to a ward with six beds.
Tearful young faces
Five tearful young faces turned towards us and I saw with a shock that the other patients were all girls aged around fifteen or sixteen. Some were sitting hugging themselves, others were sobbing, one was lying curled in a foetal position, facing the wall in miserable silence.  I had never seen such abject misery.
The sobbing continued as Susie and I were shown to the far bed and the nurse handed her a filthy hospital gown.  The bed had clearly not been changed and a dirty grey towel hung from the discoloured sink.
He sneered
A nursing sister walked in and asked me to leave. When I refused she said she would fetch the director. He sneered when I asked him about counselling for the girls: “We don’t do counselling - but your daughter will have a nice tub of ice cream afterwards.”
I was appalled and angry. “My daughter is not six years old, she has not come here to have her tonsils out,” I replied.
Our conversation was interrupted when Susie was called downstairs for an examination.  She came back distressed and told me she had been injected in the hand.
Labour was being induced
Only then did I realise that labour was being induced.
Susie, who clearly didn’t know what to expect, hadn’t been told what would happen over the next few hours and she, too, was starting to sob.
I hugged her and still had my arms around her when the pains started and Susie began to be sick in the sink.  Despite her pain, she was forced to walk to the theatre.  I am only 5ft 2in, and I struggled down the long corridor half lifting, half dragging my daughter.
At the theatre door I summoned up all my courage and hugged and kissed Susie. “Be brave, I’ll be here for you when you wake up and I’ll take you home,” I whispered. Then she disappeared.
Baby left on slab to die
By now the awful reality of a late abortion had dawned on me.  The baby would be taken from Susie and, if alive, would be left on a slab to die.
For one crazy moment, I thought about finding an off-licence and buying something to try to dull the horror.  But, as I forced myself back up the corridor, I was distracted.
Stumbling towards me, choking on her tears, was a skinny little girl in a dirty hospital gown.  As she looked up at me, eyes wide with terror, she said: “I’m scared.  What is happening to me?”  I helped her back to the ward, where she told me she was fourteen.
Too scared
She had been too scared to tell her parents about the pregnancy and her boyfriend had been sent away by the staff.
Far from being worldly, she had never even been in a hospital before.  In between sobs, she said she wanted to go home and cuddle her teddy bear.
The other girls in the ward were just fifteen or sixteen, and all desperately needed reassurance.  They gathered around me and asked why I had been allowed to stay while their own partners or parents had been sent away.
An achingly sad bunch
They made an achingly sad bunch. One girl asked me how much I had paid and told me her abortion cost £300 - her entire savings.  I realised the clinic charged different amounts depending on how much you could pay.
As I had driven up in a brand new Mercedes, I had obviously been charged the full amount.  I was waiting in the room when they wheeled Susie back, semi-conscious and crying with pain.
I let her sleep until seven that evening, when I half carried her out to the car, lay her back in the passenger seat and drove home.
Deep shock
She was silent and in deep shock.  I kept my eyes fixed on the road and tried not to think.  As soon as we walked in, we both felt so dirty that we had hot showers.
Susie went straight to bed, and when I told her father about the experience, he broke down and wept too.
Guilt and the shame
That awful experience has stayed with all of us.
My daughter hardly spoke for a couple of days.  When she did, she never discussed the abortion or the pregnancy.  Somehow, she was able to force it to the back of her mind but she was never the same sweet, carefree girl.
The guilt and the shame has never left and sometimes I see her face clouding over, and I know she is thinking of the baby who never was.
Real irony
The real irony is that she and her boyfriend stayed together and had a child, another daughter, just eighteen months later.  They split up when she was two, and I am sure the guilt of the secret abortion was one of the many factors which tore them apart.
Susie says she wants no more children and I believe that is her way of punishing herself for the awful choice she made.  Last year, my son’s wife went into premature labour and gave birth to a little girl at twenty six weeks.
I burst into tears
Hours later, I arrived at the hospital to meet my new granddaughter and was ushered into the Special Care baby unit.
I sat by Megan’s incubator alongside my son and family and I happened to glance at the baby next to us.  A tiny, red scrap lay fighting for life, her body a mass of tubes and wires.
“How old was that baby when she was born?” I asked a passing nurse.  “Just twenty four weeks but she’s a real fighter,” was the reply.
I stared at the baby’s chest moving in and out and realised that it was the same age as Susie’s baby.  I felt physically sick.  Outside, in the corridor, I burst into tears.
I was crying for the baby who had not survived
My family assumed that I was worried about my premature grandchild.  Only my husband knew that I was crying for the baby who had not survived.
I accept that some young girls can’t face motherhood.  I realise that abortion is sometimes necessary but I am still haunted by the faces of the young girls in that clinic.
I know they never had counselling, I know their parents probably never found out what had happened and, to this day, I wonder how it has affected them.
If my story persuades just one family to seek counselling - and to be prepared for the reality of abortion - then I feel I am right to have spoken out.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-299146/Eyewtiness-abortion.html#ixzz1kKJGRfNt

Disturbing Pieces of News

Truth of God
As we were putting together the Newsletter this month, it seemed clear that there was a running theme and it seemed to be the ‘attack’ on the youth and indeed of the very Truth of God.  It seems that our young people are pulled away from God in every other direction there is which ultimately all lead in the one direction: that of hell.
Pro-abortion advert
Two things stick out in my mind this month.  Both of which have been on the news in recent weeks. 
The first one is the storm of controversy caused by the decision by the Advertising Standards Authority that pro-abortion adverts can now be screened on television and radio.  This means that private abortion clinics, who we must remember, operate for profit, can now advertise their services on TV!  As Dr Dan Boucher, of the charity CARE, put it: ‘The idea that abortions should be freely advertised on TV along with toothpaste and breakfast cereal says something very sad about the way in which the values of our consumer culture, of acquiring and disposing, are penetrating our way of life generally, even our approach to life itself.’
Gain financially
My question is, do we not think that people are desensitised enough about abortion without pushing it right into our young people’s faces?  It’s disgusting and the only way that I can see that the Broadcast Committee on Advertising Practice and the Committee on Advertising Practice wanted this, is because they will gain financially.
I wonder
I wonder whether these adverts will tell our young people that they are likely to suffer psychological problems after having an abortion?  I wonder will they tell them that it is actually a baby they are getting rid of?  I doubt it.
Advanced Cell Technology
The other disturbing piece of news on the TV was “Advanced Cell Technology: Stem cell retinal implants safe!”
This fantastic, wonderful,  new treatment takes healthy immature cells from a human embryo, which are then manipulated to grow into the cells that line the back of the eye - the retina. 
A human baby
Did you get that?  A human embryo.  That is an egg that has been fertilized by a sperm – a human baby.
But sure it’s not a baby until it can survive outside the womb, is it?
To our young
What message are we sending to our young people about the value of human life?  And then we wonder why there are so many murders, so much violence; we wonder why our young people are lost and directionless.
Life is cheap
We teach them that life is cheap by these things.  We tell them that they are number one and it does not matter who gets in our way of getting something, if we want it, it is ours for the taking.  If we get pregnant and it does not suit us, get rid of it.  If we can be ‘fixed’ or healed by using the cells of babies we have murdered in the womb, what of it?  We are all important.
Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder that Jesus has to step in.  Is it any wonder that He is trying to re-Teach His Truth before He Comes again as a Mighty Judge?
As an afterthought, I wonder how many babies they murdered to acquire this new information, this new healing for people who have the misfortune of going blind!  In days gone by, we would have gone to Jesus for healing.
Is it so much easier to do things the devil’s way?

EVENTS CELEBRATED

Christmas Night
We gathered in Padre Pio sitting room and we celebrated Jesus’ Birthday in song and read from Song of the Carpenter, the story of the Angels appearing to the shepherds on the hillside.  The Angels told them of the newborn Baby, the Saviour of the world, wrapped in swaddling clothes.  The extreme, heavenly joy within them was incredible.
Happy Birthday to Jesus
We shared a cup of tea, chocolates and a Birthday Cake for Jesus and sang Happy Birthday to Him.  We also had Christmas Draw.

New Year’s Eve
At 10pm on New Years Eve, we came together to sit in vigil with Jesus and to welcome in the New Year with Him.
It was totally spontaneous with lots of hymns, praise and thanksgiving.
Thank You, Jesus, for this time with You and we trust that the vigil eased Your Pain a little in this time when You are mainly forgotten.

Day of Love Friday
Traditionally, on Friday evening before the Day of Love, the music ministry would practice in the Prayer Room.  Over recent years this has evolved into an annual concert.  It is a good beginning and preparation for the weekend for both the servants and visitors.
SonLight started with some reflective and meditative hymns creating a prayerful mood.  Patrick introduced each song which gave a deeper spiritual dimension to the concert.  For some of the original Songs, he reflected on what he had felt when he was inspired with them and the Message Jesus was trying to put across.  This gave a fresh insight into the Song and helped both the band and the audience to have a deeper understanding of the Words.
As the concert continued, the music built up with more lively songs, bringing the Joy of the Spirit to the evening.  Most of the people were on their feet clapping and of course there were a few dancers in the room!  It was a very enjoyable and prayerful evening and a perfect start to the Days of Love.  Thank You, Jesus, for all Your Songs and Music.
Saturday
The Day of Prayer began at 1.30pm on Saturday with praise and song, glorifying Jesus.  After a Scripture reading, the Rosary was prayed with the meditations given by Jesus.  We were delighted to have two good friends of the Sacred Heart House of Prayer give a talk on how they came to the House of Prayer and what this has meant to them.   The talks were both very inspiring.
Later in the afternoon
Later in the afternoon, a servant shared with us her testimony, about how Jesus had brought her to the House of Prayer.  I believe everyone was touched by all of the testimonies and talks.
The prayers continued with the Chaplet of Love and much praise and song.  This was a very joyful and spiritually uplifting day.
Saturday Night
On the Saturday evening, the two Patricks held a question and answer session where every one was given a chance to ask questions and have Jesus’ Messages explained.  Jesus had given a Message that day and Patrick read it out and emphasized that it is US that Jesus is asking to take His Light and Love out into the world.  The Patricks also spoke about how Jesus isn’t to be found in the world. The talks and explanations helped me to understand better that if I don’t take Jesus out into the world then His Words die inside me and produce no fruit.
Sunday
We started the prayers on Sunday with praise and hymns with SonLight.  Colm, a servant of the House introduced the day.  Scripture was read, John 15:9-27.  We then all prayed the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary followed by more music from SonLight.
Their journey
Two servants gave their testimony of their journey with Jesus in SonLight.  They told us how music touched their hearts and about their nervousness at the beginning of having to sing in front of people.  They shared with us all the venues they have performed at, from weddings and funerals, to parties and halls.
At 3pm we sang the Divine Mercy led by SonLight, which was very beautiful and prayerful.
Manning other Houses
Two other servants of the House, were both then invited to speak of their experiences of manning other Houses of Prayer.  One manned Belgium House of Prayer over Christmas and shared with us the difference there was compared with a Christmas in the world and the gift it was to be able to spend the whole day with Jesus.
The second servant then spoke about the work in the Houses of Prayer abroad and the need then for more people to come to the House of Prayer in Cookstown to work and the urgent need for people to volunteer to man Houses abroad.
The Blessing with the Holy Oil was after the tea break.
The two Patricks
The two Patricks then joined us in the Prayer Room and spoke to us of the importance of dying to self.  Patrick said Jesus is always with us even when we do not feel Him and we can do what Jesus has asked us to as long as we die to the self within us.  He spoke of the joy of seeing Jesus smile and the horror and grief of hearing Jesus scream in Pain.  He also shared a Message with us.
Informal evening
We all gathered in the Conference Room then for an informal evening of chat and questions with the Patricks.
Patrick taught us how to recognise temptations in the little prompts we often give in to.  They spoke about the anchor which Jesus is Teaching us through the Messages.  It was a very joyful evening with plenty of laughs!  The Patricks were asked questions which they answered.  Visitors spoke of how they had enjoyed the weekend and how they had been touched.
The Days of Love underlined the importance of doing Jesus’ Work and of dying to ourselves for Jesus to work through us.
Thank You, Jesus.

EVENTS TO COME

Prayers begin at 12 noon unless otherwise stated.

Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (Foundation Day)
Saturday 11 February 2012

Feast of Saint Claude de la Colombiere
Wednesday 15 February

Sunday 4 March 2012
the House will be closed for a private retreat.

Feast of Saint Patrick
Saturday 17 March 2012

Feast of Saint Joseph
Monday 19 March

Saturday 24 March 2012
Walk Against Abortion at 2.45pm

Monday 26 March 2012
International Twenty Four Hour Day of Prayer and Fasting Against Abortion
Prayers begin at 12 midnight and continue to 12 midnight.

Easter Retreat
From Thursday 5 April 2012 to Sunday 8 April 2012
The Easter Retreat begins with a vigil on Holy Thursday Night at 10pm.
First Friday Vigils from 10pm to 2am:
2 March and 6 April (which is also Good Friday)

WHOSE CHOICE???

Shocked
We have all heard the argument for “A Woman’s choice” which the pro-abortion lobby always use to try to justify this evil.
We, at the House of Prayer, are often asked to pray for specific women who are seeking abortion by people we know who are praying and counselling outside the abortion centres. We are often given a quick story of the woman’s circumstances and in many cases have been shocked at the amount of times it seems that the woman is not actually there by her own choice at all.
Talked into it
More often there is someone close or involved with the woman or even a third party trying to sway her decision towards aborting her baby. Very often the counsellors find that the woman does want to keep her baby but other influential people around them are pressurising them into having an abortion. Some vulnerable women under a great deal of extra stress from those around them can be easily talked into it without it really being their choice.
Frighten
These other people shockingly can be their husbands, boyfriends, parents and friends. On occasion sometimes it can also be third parties such as Social Services for certain people or even doctors can have their say, giving a medical opinion that can frighten a woman into abortion. If so many have a say in a woman aborting her child then how can we say it is totally a woman’s choice?
‘Blood Money’
I recently watched a very good Pro-Life documentary film called ‘Blood Money’ about the abortion industry in America. The thing that most sticks in my mind is of one woman who was still visibly upset by her experience of abortion. Tears streamed down her face as she told of how she was pressurised by her family and fiancé into having an abortion. She said “...It felt like they were screaming at me.  They were constantly insisting, ‘you have to abort him,’ ‘you’ve got to go to the clinic,’ ‘every week you wait just makes it worse,’ ‘go, go, go!’
I finally couldn’t take their pressure and how supposedly I was going to make everyone’s life miserable. It was relentless. They just bombarded me with it. So I guessed I had to carry this burden so everyone else could be ok.”
It’s not her choice
Another woman on the documentary who had worked in the abortion industry also said “I got a call one day from a woman who said ‘I want to book an abortion for my daughter.’ I asked her if her daughter wanted the abortion to which the woman replied ‘it’s not her choice.’”
Ran an abortion centre
One woman who actually owned and ran an abortion centre who only turned Pro-Life after aborting her own baby spoke of how her staff were trained to deal with a woman who had a positive pregnancy test: “We trained our people to grab the boney part of their elbow and squeeze. You see she’s confused, she’s hurting, she’s just got this news that she is pregnant and she’s upset. So you grab the boney part of her elbow and squeeze to get her attention and say: ‘If you have your money, we can deal with this right now.’ You see if she went home, she’d get to talk to her support system at home and may not go through with the abortion.”
Coercion
It is sad to see that, in so many cases, the woman’s choice is so often not her choice.  Joseph Meany of Human Life International says the number one slogan for abortion is pro-choice and the ironic thing about that slogan when you ask women who’ve had abortions ‘why did you have that abortion?’ the number one response is ‘I felt that I had no choice.’ The majority of abortions, about eighty percent, in America happen with some form of coercion. In other words, it’s not a woman’s choice.
Warn other women
I don’t know how the pro-abortion lobby have managed to push this lie of ‘choice’ worldwide.  Millions of people now accept the killing of the innocent on this basis in these times.  So many women are hurt by abortion and want to tell their stories to warn other women not to accept this lie, yet that information is not given freely in the media.  It is suppressed so that the lie of ‘choice’ can continue.  It is time to speak out when someone argues for ‘choice’ and, maybe with Jesus’ help, we can change minds and hearts on the issue of abortion.

Colossians 1:3-6,9
3 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
It is every Christian’s duty to pray for our brothers and sisters, regardless of class, creed or colour.  Every man is our brother, every woman our sister.  We must give thanks and Glory to God for each child as they are unique and precious in the Eyes of God, Our Father and in the Son, Jesus Christ.

4 Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have towards all the Saints.
5 For the hope that is laid up for you in Heaven, which you have heard in the Word of the Truth of the Gospel.
The gift of faith is a very valuable possession and praying to our chosen Saints helps us grow in our faith and love of Jesus and of each other.  By reading the Gospel, the Word of God, we are being fed the Truth of Jesus thus enhancing our faith and love and storing up treasure in Heaven.

6 Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth.
Since the day we heard the Good News, we grow in Gods Grace and bear fruit.  Remember, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches.  If you remain in Me you will bear fruit in plenty.’

9 Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:
Prayer is very important, pray without ceasing, pray constantly, offering to God in prayer.  We need prayer in our lives for the understanding of knowledge of God.  We need prayer for Gods Grace, of the wisdom to know and carry out Gods Plan in our lives.  Otherwise our hearts and souls are empty, devoid of Gods Grace.

Full of fear
Over the past few years, we have had a large number of foreign nationals coming to live in our town - some young men, some young girls and some families -all trying to make a better life for themselves or their families.  Many times when I have met them on the street, I have noticed they just look straight ahead, as if not to make eye contact and do not want to speak, the same reaction when I am travelling on a bus or when standing in a queue in the supermarket or wherever I am they just look straight ahead but then I came to realise they were full of fear. 
How simple
I began to speak to them, when I met them in the street or anywhere, sometimes just a ‘hello’ or ‘good morning!’ or a smile.  How simple it is to give Jesus’ Love with just a smile!  He said in one of His Messages, many people are so quick to judge those they do not even know and can say very cruel things but we must remember that when we treat someone badly we do it to Jesus.  Jesus also said on Saturday 31 December 2011:
“Look, My little children, as you enter a new year of your time. Look how this world quickens and runs ever faster away from Me and My Ways.  Look at the fear in your lives: your towns, your cities, your countries. Look at how you mistrust your neighbour and fear those that you do not know.
Look at how My Love is dying in your streets: these are all part of the evil one’s plans to destroy Me within your lives...”
Prejudice
The Irish are well known for being travelling people.  For centuries we have made our way across the world, settling in different lands and becoming a part of that culture.  We have suffered a lot of prejudice just because we’re Irish so we know what it’s like to feel unwelcome.  It is very hard to be a stranger in a strange land, to try and adapt to that culture and eke out an existence there.  A kind word, a smile and offering to help someone can make such a difference.  Jesus said that smiling at someone is doing His Work. 
To look for work
My own son left his native Ireland to look for work and travelled across the sea.  Thank God, he met some beautiful people who welcomed him with love and he made some lovely friends.
I always think on the Message Jesus gave on Monday 9 March 1998:
“My children, I will speak to you about prejudice.  I have told you that you must love one another.  When I spoke these Words I meant that you were to love all peoples, regardless of status or skin colour.  Many of you betray Me when you do not love those who are different from you.  When you practice prejudice, you do the evil one’s work.... I tell you these things to Teach you, children, for many of you hate your brother because of his skin colour but if you were My follower then you would not see it...”
Jesus’ Love
We must reach out with the Love of Jesus to every person we meet for in reaching out we give them Jesus’ Love through us.  We are bringing Jesus to them.  Saint Thérèse said strangers are just members of our family we just haven’t got to know.

Slavorum apostoli (continued)

VI. THE GOSPEL AND CULTURE
21. The Brothers from Salonika were not only heirs of the faith but also heirs of the culture of Ancient Greece, continued by Byzantium. Everyone knows how important this heritage is for the whole of European culture and, directly or indirectly, for the culture of the entire world. The work of evangelization which they carried out as pioneers in territory inhabited by Slav peoples - contains both a model of what today is called inculturation, the incarnation of the Gospel in native cultures and also the introduction of these cultures into the life of the Church.
By incarnating the Gospel in the native culture of the peoples which they were evangelizing, Saints Cyril and Methodius were especially meritorious for the formation and development of that same culture, or rather of many cultures. Indeed all the cultures of the Slav nations owe their “beginning” or development to the work of the Brothers from Salonika. For by their original and ingenious creation of an alphabet for the Slavonic language the Brothers made a fundamental contribution to the culture and literature of all the Slav nations.
Furthermore, the translation of the sacred books, carried out by Cyril and Methodius together with their pupils, conferred a capacity and cultural dignity upon the Old Slavonic liturgical language, which became for many hundreds of years not only the ecclesiastical but also the official and literary language, and even the common language of the more educated classes of the greater part of the Slav nations, and in particular of all the Slavs of the Eastern Rite. It was also used in the Church of the Holy Cross in Cracow, where the Slav Benedictines had established themselves. Here were published the first liturgical books printed in this language. Up to the present day this is the language used in the Byzantine liturgy of the Slavonic Eastern Churches of the Rite of Constantinople, both Catholic and Orthodox, in Eastern and South Eastern Europe, as well as in various countries of Western Europe. It is also used in the Roman liturgy of the Catholics of Croatia.
22. In the historical development of the Slavs of Eastern Rite, this language played a role equal to that of the Latin language in the West. It also lasted longer than Latin in part until the nineteenth century-and exercised a much more direct influence on the formation of the local literary languages, thanks to its close kinship with them. These merits vis-a-vis the culture of all the Slav peoples and nations make the work of evangelization carried out by Saints Cyril and Methodius in a certain sense constantly present in the history and in the life of these peoples and nations.
VII. THE SIGNIFICANCE AND INFLUENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN MILLENNIUM IN THE SLAV WORLD
23. The apostolic and missionary activity of Saints Cyril and Methodius, which belongs to the second half of the ninth century, can be considered the first effective evangelization of the Slavs.
This activity involved the individual territories in varying degrees, and was mainly concentrated in the territories of the then existing State of Greater Moravia. It principally included the regions belonging to the metropolis of which Methodius was pastor, namely Moravia, Slovakia and Pannonia, the last being a part of modern Hungary. Included in the sphere of the wider influence exercised by this apostolic activity, especially that of the missionaries trained by Methodius, were the other groups of Western Slavs, particularly those of Bohemia. The first historical Prince of Bohemia of the dynasty of the Premyslids, Bozyvoj (Borivoj), was probably baptized according to the Slavonic Rite. Later this influence reached the Sorbo-Lusatian tribes, and the territories of southern Poland. However, from the time of the fall of Greater Moravia in about 905- 906 the Latin Rite took the place of the Slav Rite and Bohemia was assigned ecclesiastically to the Bishop of Regensburg and the metropolis of Salzburg. However, it is worthy of note that about the middle of the tenth century, at the time of Saint Wenceslaus, there was still a strong intermingling of the elements of both rites, and an advanced coexistence of both languages in the liturgy: Slavonic and Latin. Moreover, the Christianization of the people was not possible without using the native language. And only upon such a foundation could the development of the Christian terminology in Bohemia take place, and from here, subsequently, the development and consolidation of ecclesiastical terminology in Poland. Information about the Prince of the Vislits in the Lite of Methodius is the most ancient historical reference to one of the Polish tribes.Insufficient data exist for it to be possible to link this item of information with the institution in the Polish territories of a Slav Rite ecclesiastical organization.
24. The Baptism of Poland in 966, in the person of the first historical sovereign, Mieszko, who married the Bohemian princess Dubravka, took place principally through the Bohemian Church, and by this route Christianity reached Poland from Rome in the Latin form. But the fact remains that the beginnings of Christianity in Poland are in a way linked with the work of the Brothers who set out from distant Salonika.
Among the Slavs of the Balkan peninsula the efforts of the holy Brothers bore fruit in an even more visible way. Thanks to their apostolate the Christianity which had already for some time been established in Croatia was consolidated.
Principally through their disciples who had been expelled from the area where they had originally worked the mission of Cyril and Methodius was confirmed and developed wonderfully in Bulgaria. Here, thanks to Saint Clement of Okhrid, dynamic centers of monastic life arose, and here particularly the Cyrillic alphabet developed. From here too Christianity moved to other territories, until it passed through neighboring Romania and reached the ancient Rus’ of Kiev, and then spread from Moscow eastwards. In a few years, in 1988 to be exact, the millennium of the baptism of Saint Vladimir, Grand Duke of Kiev, will be celebrated.
Continued next month

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