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Offline cassini

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Article in Irish Catholic paper Catholic Voice. They cannot believe it.

https://www.messenger.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Knock-Shrine_Creation-Walk.pdf

A new walkway has been developed in Knock where a vision appeared on 21st August 1879  the same day as Our Lady of La Salette was crowned by the Bishop of Paris.




The welcome plaque at the start states: "When you end the creation walk ... pray for our troubled planet and ask God how to nourish it back to health."
STEP 1&2 refer to "the birth of the cosmos" & "the cosmic dance begins." 
Step 3: Molecules. "We are made of stardust & are bonded to every particle of the universe."
Step 7, The first cells. "Earth awoke into life... all living things are related to these humble bacteria."
Step 13. Five mass extinctions of species. "Most linked to climate change."
Step 17. Mammals. "Mammals evolved from reptiles, a huge evolutionary leap... we humans are mammals.
Step 20. Our remote ancestors. "Creatures with ape-like intruding faces, powerful jaws and small brains began to leave the forest, stand up and walk on two legs.."
Step 25. the new creation. "Jesus emerges both human and divine... with him the final stage of evolution begins, all human kind and all creation is destined to share in eternal glory."
Step 27: The anthropocene era. "We humans began to re-engineer the planet for our own purposes but at a huge cost to nature through climate change."
The end plaque asks "What will happen next? At the end of time... each creature will be resplendently transfigured and will share in the fullness of life with us."

Fr Brian Grogan, SJ the author of the booklet on which ;the creation walk' is based. In an article in 'Jesuit Ireland' Fr Grogan says "We humans, though late arrivals on Earth, are destroying it. We must undergo a painful conversion and learn to live in harmony and communion with all the species that proceeded us.  through us the universe can celebrate itself in a unique mode of conscious self-awareness. It took nothing less than the collaboration of the universe to bring human beings into being. The new cosmology provides common ground for us to live in harmony with one another and with other species. 
(jesuit.ie/books/creationwalk

The Irish Bishops are behind the walk and want to put it in other parishes.


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This walk leads to Hell.

That is where most of the Irish are going. Sadly.

It seems that the most Catholic countries are the ones which fall harder. France is already deep, but I believe that Spain and Portugal have a long way down too.

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This walk leads to Hell.

That is where most of the Irish are going. Sadly.

It seems that the most Catholic countries are the ones which fall harder. France is already deep, but I believe that Spain and Portugal have a long way down too.
those countries were the ones who should have stayed faithful the most, too.