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Whatever it is we're doing in the name of reaching the lost isn't working.
Personal Mission Field/Transformation Irish pastors were a powerful force for social and cultural change.
Personal Mission Field/Demonstration Witnessing is first of all a way of being in the world. It was sweet, it was unique, his skill at priestly matters. To people, inscrutable: he was a shelter to the naked, he was a teat to the poor. - Dallan Forgaill, Amra Choluimb Chille…
Personal Mission Field/Conversation Let who will laugh and scoff. I will not be silent, nor will I conceal the signs and wonders which the Lord has shown to me many years before they happened - He Who knows all the happenings since before the beginning of time. - Patrick,…
Personal Mission Field/Preparation Today I gird myself with the power of the order of the cherubim, with the obedience of angels, with the ministry of archangels, with the expectation of resurrection for the sake of a reward, with the prayers of the patriarchs, with the predictions of the prophets, with…
Spiritual Practice/Seeker ...while it was not of my own choice that I arrived in Ireland at that time when I was almost a lost soul, it was good thing for me, because I was reformed by the Lord and He prepared me to be today what was once remote from…
Spiritual Discipline Every verse of them that thou recitest, expound their texts minutely; speak in thine own character exactly, and fix on them thine understanding; then thou shalt receive [thy request] from the King of the stars, whose protection is never-ending. - Anonymous, Life of Colman Ela (Irish, 17th…
Spiritual Vision One day when they were on the sea, the devil came in an accursed and dreadful form, and settled on the mast in front of Brendan, and none of them saw him save Brendan only. - Anonymous, Vita Brendani (12th century, from an earlier ms.) For we…
Make sure that you love - really love - only what you should.
December/Vision In the fervent, resounding chanting of hymns by thousands of angels flourishing in their holy dances, and by the four beasts full of eyes, and by the twenty-four blessed elders casting their crowns beneath the feet of the Lamb of God, the Trinity receives threefold praise eternally. -…
The experience of knowing the Lord is not exhausted by our reasoning powers. December/Vision "God to whom I pray for help in every trouble, in every way of which my lips are capable: deeper than seas, greater than reckoning, Three, One, more wondrous than can be told." - Broccan…
The Holy Spirit is transforming true believers, from glory to glory, into the image of Jesus Christ.