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[Father Willie Doyle Association @FrWillieDoyle]

O Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! who would not love You, who would not give their heart’s blood for You, if only once they realised the depth and the breadth and the realness of Your burning love? Why not then make every human heart a burning furnace of love for You, so that sin would become an impossibility, sacrifice a pleasure and a joy, virtue the longing of every soul, so that we should live for love, dream of love, breathe Your love, and at last die of a broken heart of love, pierced through and through with the shaft of love, the sweetest gift of God to man.
https://t.co/XF9lC4Maop

[CGS @ccsbaker]

@MattWalshBlog Or as I heard a Dublin woman say some years ago ..

“Why would I deny God’s goodness to me ?”

[Father Willie Doyle Association @FrWillieDoyle]

26 May 1917: Fr Willie's anonymous letter in the Irish Catholic
"Dear Sir — One is often struck, on glancing over the papers, at the numerous appeals made to provide ‘comforts for our troops,’ but no one ever seems to think that the souls of those who have fallen in battle may possibly be in need of much greater comfort than the bodies of their comrades who survive.
With all the spiritual help now at their disposal, even in the very firing line, we may be fairly confident that few, if any, of our Catholic men are unprepared to meet Almighty God. That does not mean they are fit for Heaven. God’s justice must be fully satisfied, and the debt of forgiven sin fully atoned for in Purgatory. Hence I venture to appeal to the great charity of your readers to provide ‘comforts for our dead soldiers’ by having Masses offered for their souls. Remembrance of our dead and gratitude are virtues dear to every Irish heart. Our brave lads have suffered and fought and died for us. They have nobly given their lives for God and country. It is now our turn to make some slight sacrifice, so that they may soon enter into the joy of eternal rest. — Very faithfully yours, NEMO."

[CGS @ccsbaker]

That’s fantastic. A wonderful tribute to a powerful artist.

[Olivier Cornet Gallery @OC_Gallery]

OCG artist Eoin Mac Lochlainn wins the Friends of the RHA Award at the academy’s 196th annual exhibition. Well done Eoin.

This beautiful work is part of a series titled ‘An ghaoth aniar / This too will pass’ recently exhibited at our gallery.
https://t.co/xtfUzU9KlG

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

When Adi Roche first entered a children's orphanage in the former Soviet Union, she said the scene resembled a concentration camp - a sight that shook her to the core and compelled her to devote her life to those children. I spoke with her this weekend for the BBC: https://t.co/MXqusrE7Kl

[Michael Robinson @MJRobinson1571]

Birth rates are collapsing across the world.

You cannot build a civilisation on radical individualism, endless consumption and the belief that children are an inconvenience.

[Irish Columbans @IrishColumbans]

#PopeLeo’s first encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' addresses #artificialintelligence and the protection of human dignity. Five years ago #Columban #Missionary Fr Seán McDonagh tackled the issue of #AI in his book 'Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs' https://t.co/vdaRdvBIsA

[Pro Life Campaign Ireland @prolifecampaign]

See how your TDs voted on the Social Democrats’ abortion bill 🗳️
Last night’s result was a stunning, hard-fought pro-life win. We’ll have more analysis later on how it happened and what it means for the issue - including the opportunities it creates and the ongoing challenges ahead. But for now, well done again to everyone who contacted their TDs in the 72 hours before the vote. It made all the difference!!

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Thousands of pilgrims are gathering in the Shrine of Fatima tonight to commemorate 109 years since the apparitions of Our Lady. This is how the shrine looks on the eve of her feast day, which is May 13th. In this place, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in 1917.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

On the day I was entrusted with the ministry of the Successor of Peter, exactly one year ago, the Church celebrated the Supplication to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of #Pompeii. I therefore had to come here, to place my service under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. #PastoralVisit https://t.co/uui9x3qPhh

[The Irish at War @irelandbattles]

#OnThisDay 1916 Éamonn Ceannt was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He wrote to his wife:
"I die a noble death for Ireland’s freedom."
He also penned
"Ireland has shown she is a nation. This generation can claim to have raised sons as brave as any that went before".
#Ireland #History

[The Irish at War @irelandbattles]

#OnThisDay 1916 Con Colbert was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He told a comrade that he was;

“proud to die for such a cause”.

Before being executed, Colbert told the soldier to pin the napkin nearer to his heart & then shook his hand.

#Ireland #History

[Dermot Kearney @DermotKearney3]

I am very pleased to report the birth of another beautiful baby girl in the South of England (early hours 6th May) whose mother reached out & received Abortion Pill Reversal treatment in early pregnancy after regretting she had taken Mifepristone. At least 77 UK APR babies now.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Life is the most beautiful gift from God!

[CGS @ccsbaker]

@frcraigfullard There is no better place to bring the family. Remember that when Our Blessed mother appeared there, she also brought her family with her. Her husband St. Joseph , her beloved son Jesus and her adopted son St . John.
You will be following in her footsteps. Enjoy the trip.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Vatican News @vaticannews_it]

Nuovo appello per la #pace di #LeoneXIV: la minaccia contro il popolo dell'#Iran non è accettabile, ci sono questioni di diritto internazionale ma molto di più è una questione morale. Vorrei invitare tutti a pensare ai tanti bambini innocenti, agli anziani. Si torni al #dialogo