St. Malachy Biographical Information

When was St. Malachy Born?
He was born 1095, of noble birth

Where was St. Malachy Born?
Armagh, Ireland

When and where did St. Malachy Die?
He died on November 2, 1148 AD, in Clairvaux, France

What did St. Malachy do?
St. Malachy was bishop of Down, Ireland from 1124 to 1148 and bishop of Connor from 1124 to 1136/1137. He was also bishop of Bangor, Ireland.

What is his Irish name?
His Middle Irish name is Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair
His Modern Irish name is: Maelmhaedhoc Ó Morgair

How do we know about St. Malachy?
Much of our knowledge of this saint comes from St. Bernard of Clairveaux.

What is St. Malachy the Patron Saint of?
St. Malachy is the patron saint of 3 diocese: Archdiocese of Armagh, Diocese of Down, and Diocese of Connor

When is St. Malachy's Feast Day?
St. Malachy's Feast Day is 1 day after his death, on November 3, 1148.

Happy All Souls Day

If people do not realize that the day following Halloween is called All Saints Day, even fewer people realize that the next day is called All Souls day. All Souls day is a very specific day within Catholicism. It's a day when we pray for the souls of people who have died before us. But it is not for everybody who has died. We do not need to pray for people who are in Hell obviously because hell is a place of Eternal damnation from which There Is No Escape. At the same time we do not need to pray for the souls of people who are in heaven already because they are already joined in the beatific Vision with God and therefore we do not need to pray for them because they have already attained the ultimate good. Therefore logically speaking the only people that we are praying for during All Souls day are people who are in purgatory.

Although like many believes many people have omitted all form of belief and purgatory, it is still very much part of the Catholic and Orthodox religions. Although not exactly the same the Jewish religion also has certain beliefs in a form of purgatory. However I am not an expert in Judaism and so I refrain from going any further than this. Purgatory for Catholics is a place of purification. In fact this is where the very name comes from we believe that people who died not in a state of mortal sin but in a state of grace you have not attained an adequately high level of perfection must go through a purification process. We know this because we know that nothing that is impure or anything that is not perfect cannot enter into heaven. We also know that many people who died are not yet perfect. Therefore we have two options. The first option is to believe that anybody who is less than perfect will go to hell. Many very extreme people have taken this position. However reasonable people who trust in the mercy of God cannot under any circumstances believe in such a strict belief system. Therefore because God is merciful he allows people to enter into his kingdom even though they are not yet perfect. It is precisely in purgatory that they attained this perfection.

Therefore on November 2nd remember to pray for the souls of people who have died. We have no way of knowing if any particular individual is actually in hell. And for the vast majority of people we have no certain way of knowing they are in heaven. Therefore we can pray for the vast majority if not all people who have died except canonized saints. However let's not just use this most blessed day to only pray for people who have died. Let us in fact use this day to contemplate our own mortality. We too shall face our own demise and will one day be faced with judgment. Will we be condemned to hell or will we ultimately be destined for heaven even if along the way on that Journey we must be purified?

Holy Saints throughout history have received Revelations about the nature of purgatory and it is spoken about to some degree so very little in the Bible both in the Old and New Testaments. Generally what they reveal is that Purgatory is a sort of Bittersweet place because while on the one hand there is great pain and suffering torments of many types as our sinful tendencies are violently ripped from our bodies from our minds and from our souls at the same time these tortured Souls are comforted in the knowledge that their ultimate destination is an eternal peace and joy greater than anything that could ever be attained on earth with the Holy Trinity.

Happy All Souls day everybody.

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You Won't Believe What Alberta Wants to Force on Kids Now...

In a shocking move that plummets Alberta deeper and deeper into the mire of sexual immorality and perversion, the province is now considering forcing all children to be subjected to gender confusion brainwashing. In a dystopia George Orwell couldn't dream of, no one is safe from this from this insidiousness. Administrators and government officials in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada won't be happy until not only the family, but all sexuality and gender is either completely perverted or destroyed.

To be more specific, starting at age 12, children will be forced to sit through hours of gender brainwashing, being asked to reconsider their gender and to experiment with various genders and sexual identities. Many more conservative readers are not aware that many gender extremists have identified dozens of genders, a list which is expanding more and more each day.

Recently I read a story about a 4 year old being dragged through the courts for his mother's right to call him a girl and dress him as such. This kid is FOUR. I feel bad for this poor child who, if he stays with his divorced mother, will doubtlessly end up with massive psychological issues and confusion.

Back to the story. By the way, it keeps getting worse. As part of the initiative to have every child reconsider his or her gender and give them options for several dozen genders (kind of like choosing your favorite flavour of ice cream), these extremists are now suggesting having a drag queen visit classrooms to show the young students how they dress and do their makeup. That's right, the school will invite older men who dress up like women in the most outrageous and gaudy clothes and makeup to "teach" kids what it's all about to be a transvestite.

Oh, but to top it all off and really make Joseph Stalin proud, there is no option for a parent to remove his or her child from this class. That's right, another basic human freedom under assault in Canada. By that I mean the freedom of parents to educate their children. These authoritarian control freak perverts will not rest until they create massive confusion and gender confusion among the entire student body and realize their goal of eradicating families and sexuality.

That was always the goal of public education - easy manipulation of the populace. The lunatics have completely taken control of the asylum, and now they are forcing kids to be subjected to their insanity. We must outright refuse. Forget voting, that does nothing. We must create a revolution and stand up to these disgusting perverts.

If you don't believe me, or for more information, read this CBC article. CBC, by the way, will never report the truth. Instead, they cater to the most extreme leftist, feminist extremists around, so you can be sure if they are reporting this, it's accurate and probably significantly sugar-coated. BTW, CBC must be de-funded also ASAP.

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/should-drag-shows-be-used-as-a-teaching-tool-in-alberta-schools-1.3830417

Happy All Saints Day

Everyone knows October 31st is Halloween. Most people especially most children celebrated by dressing up in funny and scary costumes and going door-to-door collecting candies from anybody who'll give them some. But what very few people actually stop to realize is that Halloween actually means All Hallows Eve. That's because the following day Is All Hallows day. That is the day in the Catholic calendar where we celebrate all the saints who are in heaven. This does not just include Saints who are officially named like Saint Teresa of Avila or st. Padre Pio or st. Francis of Assisi. This of course also includes anybody who is in heaven. Nobody currently knows exactly how many people are in heaven. But November 1st is designated as the official day of the year where Catholics around the world celebrate and ask for the prayers of these holy people in heaven who are very close to God. This year let's not just celebrate All Hallows Eve let's also celebrate All Saints Day which is today November 1st 2016.

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Alberta and Transgenderism

Alberta is jumping completely on the transgender bandwagon. They announced completely over-the-top legislation in relation to schools. Here are some of them:

1) Children pick their own pronoun.
A child determines if they want to be referred to as he, she, ze, it, they or use no pronoun whatsoever. On report cards, when being spoken to by teachers or parents, or in any other way, the school must under all circumstances abide by whatever the child decides. Even if the child is 4 or 5 years old, this still applies and can be changed at any time on the whim of the child.

2) Boys or Girls can play for any team
Boys and Girls will no longer be divided in Alberta based on gender. Rather, each child can pick whatever team they would rather play on. So a boy can decide to play on the girl's team or vice verse. Again, because gender is fluid and can change, a boy can switch to the girl's team and then back again at will.

3) Kids can choose whichever bathroom or locker room they go into
Again, with no other requirement than verbal request, a child can choose whether to go into a girls' bathroom or locker room or a boys'. There are no rules or conditions. They can just do whatever they want in this regard. Also, schools are mandated to have a third, gender-less bathroom for any student who hasn't decided to or doesn't want to disclose their gender.

4) Schools are mandated to have Gay-Straight Alliances.
These are clubs where gay and non-gay students can meet to talk about sexuality and to find ways of ending homophobia and transphobia. In reality, they tell every person to question their sexuality and encourage perversion.

Obviously there are some schools which oppose these measures for religious reasons, and Canada, being a country that recognizes religious diversity and various approaches to raising children, allows exemptions for such groups. LOL, just kidding. There are absolutely no such exemptions. Religious schools will absolutely be forced to participate in all of this.

If a religious school or school board refuses to call a 5 year old boy a girl upon request, they will lose all of their funding from the province. Of course, this is one more reason why public funding of schools needs to end immediately. As the advocates of this system long ago declared, public education doesn't exist because poor people couldn't get an education. It exists so that bureaucrats can more easily force people to act a certain way and for this to apply across the board.

All schools are doing is creating vast confusion for students as they struggle through school. Even though transgenderism only appeared extremely recently and it extraordinarily uncommon, everybody must be subject to its dictates. There is no place for good-willed Christian parents to send their children for school. The measures will only continue to get worse and worse as even private schools are forbidden from teaching real sexuality. Unless you are teaching perversion, you will be forcibly banned from education.

More on this perversion: CBC

Question #9: Do we have to take a Catholic baptism seriously or is it mostly just a fun little ritual?

This is Question and Answer #9 in a series on Godparents. Each day I will answer a question. If you have your own question, please post it as a comment to this post. Thank you.

Question #9: Do we have to take a Catholic baptism seriously or is it mostly just a fun little ritual?

One of my pet peeves is people who attend a baptism and snicker and joke throughout the whole thing. Some parents will purposely goad their kids into “performing” and everyone just pays attention to these kids instead of to the sacred event that is taking place. They take the whole thing as a joke. If it's such a joke, maybe you have to reconsider whether you should even be doing this.

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Question #8 My buddy is cohabiting or living together with his girlfriend and isn’t married. Can he be a Catholic godfather?

This is Question and Answer #8 in a series on Godparents. Each day I will answer a question. If you have your own question, please post it as a comment to this post. Thank you.

Question #8 My buddy is cohabiting or living together with his girlfriend and isn’t married. Can he be a Catholic godfather?

Again, as mentioned yesterday, if he is living in defiance of Church teaching then he’s not a good candidate. If him and his partner are living as brother and sister for the time being, then he would be allowed.

Question #7: Can my gay friend be a godparent at a Catholic baptism?

This is Question and Answer #7 in a series on Godparents. Each day I will answer a question. If you have your own question, please post it as a comment to this post. Thank you.

Question #7: Can my gay friend be a godparent at a Catholic baptism?

If your friend is living in defiance of Church teaching on sexuality, then he is not permitted to be a godparent. Simply being attracted to people of the same sex would NOT disqualify the person however. It’s only if they are openly opposing the Church.