The heartwarming ad for a bar in Ireland has moved many people to tears and highlights an important fact.
With Christmas less than a month away, it’s the season for those heartwarming commercials. However, these days, lots of companies use this time of year to remind people that it’s not always a time of good cheer for some, and there are ways we can lend a hand.

The ad for Charlie’s Bar in Co. Fermanagh, Ireland, begins with a sad elderly gentleman making his way to the cemetery. He continues on his lonely journey until he finds his way into the bar where he is met with kindness, companionship, and a little Christmas joy.

The end of the commercial shares a quote from the Irish poet W.B. Yeats, telling us:

There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t yet met.”

And that’s something we can all consider: We should always offer a hand of friendship to those who look to be in need of a little company, especially at this time of year.

While the notion of people being lonely at Christmas is not unusual, often it’s only when we see the reality of loneliness that we are really motivated to take action.

The owner of the bar in Enniskillen shared that it was “so lovely” that the heartbreaking ad has had such an impact on people, according to the Belfast Telegraph. And now hopefully it will inspire people to take action.

A nice little video. 

G.K. Chesterton wrote about how he lamented the loss of the alehouses as a place for the community to meet up. And not only was it a social place, but important matters were often discussed as well. The everyday man's parliament, I think he called it. 

American “Pass it on” campaign another humanist propaganda.  The same kind “secular tear jerker” propaganda from Irish Companies.   All without Jesus.  

They believe people are gods and goddesses. The power comes from the people.   In pseudo American Protestantism it’s called prosperity religion and everyone is a little God.  

I see Christian Queen of music is there.  A divorced remarried Christian who promotes unholy marriage and lifestyles.  

https://www.passiton.com

I'm pretty sure that the Puritans at Plymouth Rock would have agreed with you.

Wow.  That doesn’t make sense.  There is a reason why the Church is in crisis.  Drinking in moderation is one thing.  But  there is a problem with alcoholism, and drugs in Ireland and America.  Pretty bad to go to Ireland and the St Valentine day sermon was to warn against drinking too much alcohol and domestic violence.

That’s why pubs were open on Good Friday.  It was very sad.  Now in USA, you can bring your children to local gαy bar for drag shows and maybe alcohol. 


Plenty of drinking and orgies in Rome too.  How many young boys and seminarians were groomed with booze? 

Father Theobald Mathew (10 October 1790 – 8 December 1856)^[1] was an IrishCatholic priest and teetotalistreformer, popularly known as Father Mathew. He was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on 10 October 1790, to James Mathew and his wife Anne, daughter of George Whyte, of Cappaghwhyte.^[2] Of the family of the Earls Landaff (his father, James, was first cousin of Thomas Mathew, father of the first earl),^[3] he was a kinsman of the clergyman Arnold Mathew.^[4][5][6]
He received his schooling in Kilkenny, then moved for a short time to Maynooth.^[7] From 1808 to 1814 he studied in Dublin, where in the latter year he was ordained to the priesthood. Having entered the Capuchin order, after a brief period of service at Kilkenny, he joined the mission in Cork.^[8]
Statues of Mathew stand on St. Patrick's Street, Cork, by J. H. Foley (1864), and on O'Connell Street, Dublin, by Mary Redmond (1893).^[9] There is a Fr. Mathew Bridge in Limerick City, named after the temperance reformer when it was rebuilt between 1844 and 1846.^[10] The Capuchin church in Cork, Holy Trinity, stands on Father Mathew Quay and was commissioned by him.^[11]
Total Abstinence Society[edit]
Father Mathew monument in St. Patrick's Street, Cork
The movement with which his name is associated began on 10 April 1838 with the establishment of the "Knights of Father Mathew", which in less than nine months enrolled no fewer than 150,000 names. Over time this became the Catholic Total Abstinence Society. It rapidly spread to Limerick and elsewhere, and some idea of its popularity may be formed from the fact that at Nenagh 20,000 persons are said to have taken the pledge in one day, 100,000 at Galway in two days, and 70,000 in Dublin in five days. At its height, just before the Great Famine of 1845–49, his movement enrolled some 3 million people, or more than half of the adult population of Ireland. In 1844, he visited Liverpool, Manchester and London with almost equal success.^[12]
While Father Mathew founded the temperance movement in Ireland, it was a part of a wider effort to improve the life chances of poor labourers. Teetotalism was first organised by the Preston Temperance Society, founded in 1833, and the organisations that followed had a huge worldwide impact in the 1800s.^[13]
A biography, written shortly after his death, credits Mathew's work with a reduction in Irish crime figures of the era:

The number of homicides, which was 247 in 1838, was only 105 in 1841. There were 91 cases of 'firing at the person' reported in 1837, and but 66 in 1841. The 'assaults on police' were 91 in 1837, and but 58 in 1841. Incendiary fires, which were as many as 459 in 1838, were 390 in 1841. Robberies, thus specially reported, diminished from 725 in 1837, to 257 in 1841. The decrease in cases of 'robbery of arms' was most significant; from being 246 in 1837, they were but 111 in 1841. The offence of 'appearing in arms' showed a favourable diminution, falling from 110 in 1837, to 66 in 1841. The effect of sobriety on 'faction fights' was equally remarkable. There were 20 of such cases in 1839, and 8 in 1841. The dangerous offence of 'rescuing prisoners', which was represented by 34 in 1837, had no return in 1841!
The number committed to jail fell from 12,049 in 1839 to 9,875 by 1845. Sentences of death fell from 66 in 1839 to 14 in 1846, and transportations fell from 916 to 504 over the same period.^[14]

In the United States[edit]
The Father Mathew monument in its former location on Dublin's O'Connell Street

[th]The Reverend

Theobald Mathew[/th]


Theobald Mathew, by Edward Daniel Leahy


[th]Born[/th]

10 October 1790 Thomastown, County Tipperary, Ireland

[th]Died[/th]

8 December 1856 (aged 66) Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland

[th]Religion[/th]

Christianity (Roman Catholic)

[th]Church[/th]

Latin Church

Well, I stand corrected.

Evidently, all of the tea-totaling Protestants were right all along about the dangers of "the drink." I wonder what else we can learn from the Protestants? 

Since humans cannot be expected to ever control themselves, control has to come from an outside source. At least that's how the Puritans thought. 

The above source is from Irish Catholicism.  Sacred Heart of Jesus Pioneer pledge is active today. 

It's interesting that the Puritans believed that due to original sin, that human beings cannot really control themselves, and that is why they believed that strict and firm control must come from an outside source, such as government, society, or their church.

Evidently, they were right, and that Catholic Church is wrong.

While I personally thought the commercial was nice, it's also not a bad idea to invite a lonely person to Mass and go for coffee afterwards. I think the information of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Pioneer pledge was an interesting bit of history.