So I’m back from my CER weekend in Dair in Derry Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday and if you want to know about CIO you’ll have to go and do it because um I’m not going to spoil the surprise for you CIO is a gift for the church and
What do you do with gifts when somebody gives you a gift you don’t ask well what’s in this gift you’re giving me you usually open it and you’re surprised so that’s what it is CIO is a gift for the the church so if you want to know what
This gift is go up and experience it all I can tell you it is life transforming it is beautiful it is comical it is amazing it is profound it is moving and it felt like the whole church was embracing you it’s a very interesting experience you know the whole dasis you
Know because so many people involved so many people such a beautiful thing so I’m not really going to talk to you about CIO because as I said it’s a gift and everyone has to experience it firsthand for for themselves to kind of understand it but I will kind of go into
My own interior kind of to dig into my own interior uh about my own Journey over the last few days and and that’s really where I want to focus this video on uh and and again I just wanted to to to give a massive massive mass of thank
You to all the the hundreds really of of of Catholic and der uh the priests the carmelites U so I just want to kind of go into my own interior experience on this uh for any of you who don’t know this uh CIO and der is held in a carite
Monastery so it’s it’s you know carite Monastery St Teresa Aila hello happy anytime there’s anything carite I’m happy you know especially uh you know I just love Teresa Ava John of the Cross and uh uh St Teresa of liia um EDI Stein St um St uh St Teresa of you know of the
Of of of the cross I think she took that name and religion but like and I’m just happy there but kind of my own interior Journey on Friday I had some you know very strange experiences in the in the monastery on Friday we were doing an
Event and again you have to do the crer to know what the event was and at at certain time we were said go to your room and blah blah blah and you’ll get we’ve left something in your room so I go into my room and and I and I get the
Thing that they had left in my room and I said do you know what if the whole Irish Church experienced this how how different the Irish Church would be how different Catholics would be it was just such a beautiful thing that they left in my room and again I’m not going to tell
You about it because you have to experience it so this was kind of going through my mind and um anyway I went down and I sat down beside a guy and uh and then this man we were there talking and then this man says the exact same thing oh if the if everyone
In the church did this or if everyone in the church said I just I was just saying that or you know the Holy Spirit probably prompted this inspiration up in my room and I I think it that’s where the Holy Spirit was saying you know if the whole church experienced this love
This gift it is a gift beautiful gift you you you cannot imagine this gift that that people have in teraka if it was just went out to the church how how would the church be transformed but anyway I suppose you’ll have to experience it to understand what I’m
Saying cuz you know not I’m not going to I’m not going to spoil the surprise for other people that go up and doing this because I didn’t know what I was going to experience over the 3 days and it was like oh wow it was like you being
Showered with gifts the whole time it was uh quite incredible and again You’ have to experience it yourself but anyway that was the first experience the first thing the second thing that kind of interiorly what the Holy Spirit was was saying to me the frustration that
God has with us sometimes kind the the frustration that Christ feels when we’re not United to him when we don’t we’re not a we’re not docile Ile vessels of the Holy Spirit you know Christ wants to go out and he wants to evangelize and he wants to do
This and sometimes he encounters with us a lot of a lot of obstacles and so that was what was coming to me it was like Christ was kind of I wouldn’t say annoyed but he it was just like he was sad and frustrated a little bit with me I’m just
Talking about myself here that I’m not more docile to doing what he wants to do in my life and maybe that’s just something I need to work on with was just something that came in prayer another thing that happened to me very very strange one morning I was
Walking in into the bathroom and uh our Lord showed me Satan’s um clergy you know the church is clergy Christ has his Apostles and Satan has the same every time you go or somebody goes to a drug dealer they’re going to Satan’s priests his form of priest you know or an abortion
Or sometimes somebody murders or you know he has a whole hierarchy of Agents of priests that keep people roped in you know we often talk about the importance of frequent confession which is the antidote to all of this you know sanctifying Grace but Satan is trying to
Rope people in and he’s got a vast web over Ireland demonic web over Ireland of his of his Apostles of his agents you know if you’re hooked on a cocaine you’re going to the drug dealer every week you know you know you’re hooked on his agents it was
Just this strange Vision that Christ showed me of what what Satan is doing in Ireland and how we need to break with us and be very very insistent on people that you know to know what Satan does you know often times we say well I don’t want to confess this I’m I’m embarrassed
Or I’m as sham I don’t want to be confessed something to a priest and yeah we’d be very vulnerable in sleeping with a prostitute or somebody who we Mees we don’t know you know we’re we’re strange creatures in a way that we’ll be very Wonder we’ll keep going back to drug dealers
Or you know it’s it’s it’s quite incredible but it was just that vision of Satan’s Army of Satan’s hold it was something that came over me another thing that impressed me and uh you know and I’m going to speak very vaguely on this very very vaguely um there was one
Man at the CIO he mentioned how another man had come into His hostel and had befriended him and helped him now that is what it means to be Catholic you know we be we put on the mind of Christ where would Christ be with those who need
Him you know we have to be the eyes the hands the mind the body of Christ to go to those are suffering if we’re having such a mystical encounter in the Eucharist whatever Mass we go to whether it be traditional Latin mass or the new Mass if we’re having such an amazing
Counter with Christ that is to transform us and when we become United to Christ what would what would anybody do who is truly United to Christ they would be Christ and you go out and you go to those that need Christ you know just offer Christ
Mission you know Mission and so it was I think it was the whole it just encapsulated everything for me to understand if if somebody does CIO and they go out on Mission they going to a hostel they prend befriend a man and they elevate that man and they they help
That man and they and they bring him to CIO and they help him transform his life and they you know they keep that is Mission that’s Christ that’s that’s Unity with Christ you know so you know speaking on very vague terms on on that particular example for me that kind of
The Holy Spirit was powerfully speaking to me this is you know this is what we need to do you know if we are Catholic we are a people of mission you know we are a people of mission we go out you know knock on doors go to the streets prayer roll
I mean the CIO movement is a movement of mission those there doing offering us this weekend were on a mission to us you know Christ was using them on a mission to us you know no and it’s it was just beautiful um that experience and lastly I I think the most mystical amazing
Incredible experience of the weekend was and and I think I I think I just wanted to touch on this because it wasn’t really part of the crer we and it was it was just it was Providence really that happened we were doing a closing Mass uh yesterday and during the mass the wrong
Readings had been read out um actually when the priest was reading the gospel I was saying to myself oh I must I must have got the gospel wrong because we do lexio deina in our men of St Joseph’s prayer group on a Tuesday I try and met and ask the
Men to meditate on the gospel in preparation for for the Sunday so that when you go into Mass the the you’re you’re being fed by the word of God and you’re bringing that gospel into the first two readings you know um it’s just so that we we deep we
Meditate more on the word of God and again I think uh second Vatican 2 got it right in expanding the lectionary and offering us the lectionary so that we we are we we are saturated by the word of God but anyway we had a it was an interesting experience on the Sunday we
Read out the wrong readings and it was our lady at the well you know Christ um uh the revealing his himself as the Messiah to the the Samaritan woman at the well you know sikar and um anyway the priest starts reading out the gospel father uh Steven
Carite and all of a sudden vision of knock comes over me you know knock I’m drawing every time I read that gospel I’m in The Apparition Chapel in KN and why am I in The Apparition Chapel at KN when I hear that gospel because if you’re ever in The Apparition Chapel at
Noock you know you have the whole statues you have The Apparition scene but there’s a stained glass window above the cross you know you have the Lamb on the altar you have the cross and the angels and you look up at the stained glass window and you have our Lord and
You have the well and you have our lady um the woman the the Samaritan woman at at the well and so for me it’s just if if I hear that gospel I’m in knock it was I was in act if you’re in the Parish church sometimes because the
Light will shine in on the through the sting glass window you can appreciate it inside the Parish church and it was only one day I was in the Parish church I said oh you know it’s providential to have that stained glass window over the
Lamb of God to the other side so we were there uh he started reading out the gospel and then he’s there obviously the poor the poor man had had uh prepared a homy based on the gospel but he’ read out the other gospel and he gave us this amazing sermon you know
Amazing you know out of his heart really inspired by the Holy Spirit really I would say and connecting it with St Teresa of Avila obviously a Carmelite is going to do this and you know I think we were all transfixed with this beautiful sermon this
Um well it it impacted me a lot and hello anything to do with Teresa Vila you have you have my attention captured immediately you know uh and in three weeks time we’re beginning the school of Mary in knock three weeks time the day before H Pam Sunday Jean K French man is
Coming to Ireland to help us uh with the school of Mary and obviously we’re going to we’re going to saturate people with St Teresa of I John at the cross uh the carite spirituality you know because it is so rich so beautiful it is for our
Times and Le need to you know go into that to that beautiful depth of prayer and also you know knock hello who’s been walking to knock for years who has been walking to knock for years you know what a chance that you would have that gospel read out at that
Mass um actually The Exodus first reading was uh was the you know Moses striking the Rock and you know it was very was they were very powerful readings and I supp you know mistakes God doesn’t make mistakes God sends his message when he when he needs to send his message anyway
Those in Broad Strokes are my own interior Journey over the weekend and as I said it was incredible simply incredible it was like the whole it was like you you arrive to a church in Ireland and it’s you know they’re all embracing you it’s you know it’s like
You’re getting this big hug you know anybody that knows termo backa it’s a a carite monastery in Dairy overlooking the foil up on a hill the setting is amazing you know you have a beautiful carite Community there you have a beautiful Camino um um cruo Community you have lots of good diois and
Priests it’s it’s I mean I mean it’s it’s it’s sad it’s sad not every dasis has that you know what I mean and you know it’s a gift it’s a gift for the church it’s a gift experience it open it up you know get it out and experience it
That’s that’s that’s my um my thoughts on it but I just wanted to Echo something that our lady said to me in magori because when she came back to magori she clearly wanted men’s groups and she said she said men’s small men’s groups set up all across Ireland you
Know she wanted men praying together men working together small prayer groups you know 12 six 12 people in all over Ireland you know and and and I suppose I I I see this linked to dairy in some way you know I really do think it’s linked
To Dairy that we need as men we we need to be vulnerable with each other we need to pray with each other we need to help each other and we need to embark on this adventure of of of um of the spiritual life you know the spiritual life was um you know
Purification you know contemplation Union with God that that that process that that the that the Saints speak about you know that’s in the catechism um you know we have to we have to embark on that and it’s beautiful it’s beautiful once you’re hooked on Heaven once your gravitation your center of
Gravitation is s on Heaven you’re you want that you’re more you want that you’re kind of dragging Heaven down to you you know come on down here and you’re in that Kingdom for a while you know the kingdom that Christ speaks about it’s beautiful it really is
I mean that’s that’s all I can say about this you know you wake up in the morning and you’re thinking about it and I other men have said to me oh Robert I’m all the time thinking about Christ and I’m all the time doing this and and I’m
Completely changed the way I was years ago I said that’s normal that’s you know the more we exercise virtue these virtues the more we use sanctifying Grace you know confession the Eucharist you know we we we dig into this mystery the more captivates us and I think it
Certainly has for me and and it is a call from Heaven our lady is pointing a finger at Derry she has been she has been since a couple of years she’s been pointing the finger at Derry uh she’s been pointing she’s been asking for Unity in the
Church you know and she’s been pointing the finger at Dairy for a long time and I think it’s now we need to this needs to explode out into the church especially In Dary explode out what have we got to lose what have we got to lose being Apostles of Christ you know what
Have we got to lose go out to that man or woman that’s suffering you know bring bring them bring them in to the love of that’s in the church all of Satan’s Apostles you know these Satan’s Satan’s minions they offer no love they offer false Beauty false satisfaction false
Pleasure but no depth you know a mirage of good a mirage of what’s true good and beautiful but there’s no depth there there’s no there’s no Community there there’s no love there there you know a drug dealer only sells drugs to make money a prostitute only prostitutes her body to make
Money an abortion clinic only offer abortions to make money you know a bashing shop only offers bashing you know to make money you know Satan only offers these things to destroy us to distract us from that amazing encounter with Christ and um so you know just something to think
On um I had my my kind of checklist of what I wanted to see on the weekend you know um I wanted to see certain things at this CIO that that you know I could I could engage with and I suppose one day father Shane mentioned the word
Theosis and when father father sorry Father Steven mentioned the word theosis and when when I heard that word theosis I said you sold me you sold me any priest that talks about theosis understands the spiritual life understands priorities of where we need to be going you know and so I said oh
You’ve meold here you know what is the purpose of all of this where what is the purpose of the church salvation of souls you know and so there’s this there was a a good serious um engagement in that and again that’s that’s is all I’m going to say
That’s all I’m going to say you if you want to experience C you have to do it and again it was such a beautiful thing and if I if I’d have filmed it just to give you an idea it would have got thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of views
Because it was so emotional it was so beautiful it really put it it really um changed my heart and and I’m just saying that um and there was real Brotherhood there was real friendship there was real fraternity there was real love it was just incredible that’s you know so I
Just wanted to give that big big massive thank you to uh to all all of the people that were there the hundreds of people I think that were at some point in time there and um obviously to the the clergy to the to the monks um the carites to um
Bishop donel obviously who supports this uh and to everybody that that that did it I I I had wanted to do this weekend for a long time and now was the right time so you know I just we’re scratching our heads we’re scratching how can we
Reform the Church how can we you know start with what is the purpose of the church and work backwards from there work backwards you know the purpose of the church is salvation of souls it is so that we have Union with with Christ personal relationship with Christ Union
With Christ and you know we need to take we need to take the mechanics of this you know that the lot the Saints have spoken about trees of aage on the cross trees of lzo the carite Saints and other Saints the church fathers you know we
Have a wealth of these Saints they spoke about the mechanics as such of of of this process of sanctification and we need to bring those in take these tools and use them you know sanctifying Grace confession holy sacrifice the mass you know um the the the prayer
Understanding how to pray prayer of the heart you know so it’s it’s it’s it’s really important that we we we use these tools we dig out these tools we get formation on these tools and that’s what we’ll do with the School of prayer um to try and give people the
Tools now to to to that the same Saints gave us the doctors of the church gave us to be Saints and there is no other option for Catholics other to be Saints and Saints understood in its true meaning is just it’s just friendship with God it’s Union with God it’s your
Life given to God it’s just an incredible journey and so you know thank you very much and thank you to everyone that came and thank you for um making me feel so welcome and uh and I said say to any other Catholics in Ireland you have
A Hidden Gem in da you have a Hidden Gem in that carite Monastery you’ve a hidden treasure and it needs to come out into Ireland now you know it needs to explode into Ireland You’ have a Hidden Gem um and I think any of the faith leaders
Around Ireland or any of the priests around Ireland you need to go up and experience that Gem and and bring it down to Ireland today because so many people people are suffering so many Christ is showing me what is happening in Ireland you know he said you
Know we’re not leaders as men we’re not leaders of the faith anymore we’re not leaders in the faith you know there’s so much confusion in the church and very little leadership and that I point the finger at myself at lay people but you know we have to lead souls to Christ and be
Serious about it anyway God bless you take care bye-bye
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