To the believers of Catholic Ireland

Dear believers,

in this historic moment we, Bishops of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church, are turning to You. We would like to remind hereby that before the referendum we addressed several pastoral letters to You and Your nation. It gives us great pain when we realize that at that momentous hour for Europe Ireland failed. Where is the deep root of this failure? In the betrayal of the apostatical hierarchy! Over the past two decades this hierarchy has kept silent on clerical paedophilia and therefore it practically accounts for moral decay and shame upon the Church. At a decisive moment before the second referendum Bishop Noël Treanor delivered his address and uttered impertinent lies: “I state unequivocally that a Catholic can, without reserve and in good conscience, vote ‘Yes’ for the Lisbon Treaty. There are no grounds to justify a ‘No’ vote in the Lisbon Treaty on the basis of specifically religious or ethical concerns.” Next he claimed that the Lisbon Treaty (LT) would by no means endanger the anti-abortion laws in Ireland, that it would not affect the Irish legislation, that Ireland would preserve its sovereignty and, moreover, that from the moment of the adoption of the LT every Irish believer would get an opportunity to influence the European politics. What was the end of the promises of the traitorous episcopate and EU leadership one year later? Ireland legalized same-sex marriages and gay adoption of children and adopted laws of homophobia connected with it. Now the law lays down e.g. that if an official refuses to solemnize a marriage of a homosexual couple, he shall be punished by 6 months in prison and a fine of 2.000 euros. Who is to blame for the moral decay is the Church hierarchy which, as from 17th November 2009, is under a curse by reason of a betrayal of Christ and of the Church. The Bishops of Ireland were appealed to confess the true faith and to renounce the spirit of heresy, which every Catholic believer should do without hesitation at any time.

1)      Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for us, that means even for you and for your sins, and on the third day He rose again historically and really?

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2)      Do you believe that there is salvation in no one else, only in Jesus Christ?

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3)      Do you consider homosexual activity an abomination and deadly sin?

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4)      Do you renounce historical-critical theology (HCT) and the spirit which is behind it?

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5)      Do you renounce the spirit of syncretism with paganism, the spirit of relativism and false interpretation of the Nostra aetate declaration as well as the so-called spirit of Assisi?

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6)      Do you renounce Satan and demons, especially those which nowadays work through different covert forms of magic and divination (homoeopathy, acupuncture, hypnosis, divination by pendulum or dowsing rod) and through the spirit of New Age?

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7)      Do you renounce the spirit working through Freemasons, through the Rotary or the Lions Club?

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Sad to say, not even a single Irish bishop confessed the faith or separated from heresies and from the spirit of apostasy. For that reason they drew down on themselves God’s anathema according to Gal 1:8-9, i.e. a curse and excommunication from the Mystical Body of Christ – the Church. This curse now works through them all over Ireland.

What is the task of true-Catholic priests?

1)  They should join together and officially appeal to the present Church hierarchs to voluntarily resign from the Church offices and, as apostate bishops, to do penance in any of the monasteries for their betrayal of Christ and of the Church.

2)  True-Catholic priests should choose such candidates who suffered for the sake of the Church and true Catholic doctrine, adhere to sound moral principles and have nothing in common with the spirit of the historical-critical theology or with a false regard for paganism. These should be able to carry out a sound reform within the bleeding Church of Ireland. The priests should then ask the Holy Father to consecrate these candidates as bishops for all dioceses of Ireland.

3)  To organize prayer guards for continual prayer. A well-tried model: To form three prayer groups made up of 24 people each. Every member prays one hour of the day. The first group prays during the first ten days of the month, the second group during the next ten days and the third group during the remaining ten or eleven days of the month. These 72 people shall pray continually for a spiritual renewal of the biblical and Catholic faith in Ireland.

4)  Fasting: 24 hours of fasting on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It is best to abstain from eating from supper to supper.

5)  Celebration of Sunday: Besides the Sunday Mass, small communities should gather together either on Saturday evening or in the early hours of Sunday morning and devote at least two hours to prayer only. On Sunday, this small community should also give some time to God’s Word, yet not in the spirit of the historical-critical theology but in the Holy Spirit who is the Author of the Holy Scripture.

   This all – prayer, the apostles’ teaching and the breaking of bread (the Eucharist) – should be the foundation of fellowship where members of the groups would encourage each other and discuss how to be true Christ’s witnesses (martyres) at the present time, how to perform a true mission, true apologetics and, above all, how to deny oneself and follow our Lord and Saviour in truth. Here they should also seek the light how to defend oneself against the pressure of antivalues and how to protect one’s children from demoralization propagated by the Lisbon Treaty and by the apostates – who inwardly fell away from Christianity. These four principles 1) liturgy, 2) the apostles’ teaching, 3) prayers and 4) fellowship were the foundation of the Church in Jerusalem. This Church has remained a model and an ideal for all times (cf. Act 2:42).

6)  It is necessary to establish a group of prophets – defenders of the faith – in each parish, who will organize public meetings against the crimes authorized by the Lisbon Treaty with its perverted spirit of homosexuality and Satanism.

7)  It is also necessary that the Catholics of Ireland should break with all modern forms of divination, magic and spiritism as well with a false regard for paganism. It would be good if they could make a gesture of renouncement in the presence of two witnesses.

In her apparitions to the Church the Blessed Virgin, who is the Queen of prophets, constantly emphasizes the same foundation as Jesus: “Repentance, repentance, repentance.” (La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima...)

Jesus’ words “Metanoite (change your minds) and believe in the Gospel” (Mk 1:15) as well as “Unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish” (Lk 13:3) are urgently topical nowadays.

Would that the Irish land was filled with earnest prayers and atoning sacrifices through which God may grant the spiritual resurrection of Ireland.

Praying for You and bestowing our blessing on You,

            Bishops of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC)

+ Metod?j OSBMr

+ Markian OSBMr

+ Samuel OSBMr

+ Eliáš OSBMr

Lvov (Ukraine), 3rd September 2010

Copies to:

-         The Holy Father Benedict XVI

-         Mass media of Ireland

Address: Synod of the UOGCC, 3 Sosnova St., Lvov - Bryukhovychi, 79491, Ukraine

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