Valentine’s Day may have been celebrated on Friday but we continue to celebrate Valentine’s weekend. This photo sums it all up God love you! The main focus this weekend has been romantic love but there are many other different types of love too, spiritual love, sacred love, gentle love, simple love, joyful love, healing love, self love, single love, caring love, family love, friendly love. For me personally it is my firm belief that all love must have a source and this source is our loving God.

Video for the Week🎥 

This is my

latest video called ‘Celebrating Saint Gobnait’.  I recently visited her place of pilgrimage in Ballyvourney and I also got to see the musical ‘Gobnait’ which is currently taking place in Ballingeary. This video is a blend of both.

This was my video last week called ‘Celebrate Your Light’

Here is a simple Grace Before Meals Prayer🙏

If you would like to see a selection of my other videos on YouTube you are welcome to have a look at some of them here: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesMcSweeneyFr/videos

Spiritual Thought For The Week

“We are stronger, gentler, more resilient and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” – Mark Nepo

There was a line this week, during one of the weekday readings that stood out for me. It was from the letter to the Hebrews and it read: ‘Jesus is the same today, as he was yesterday and as he will be forever.’ His message of love, peace, kindness, light, hope, healing and so much more is as relevant today as it always has been. It will never grow old or get outdated.

Even though there may be lots of sad and bad news that makes the headlines every day, we are not to get discouraged. We keep our heads up, we stay strong and spiritually it is our belief that Jesus is with us every day but especially today.

Jesus brings many blessings to people, they are never forced and always ours if we want them.  Tuesday (Feb 11th) was World Day of the Sick and is the feast of our Lady of Lourdes. Everybody needs some healing. The world we live in today can sometimes be harsh with no soft landings. Through healing Jesus always made sure there was a soft landing for everyone. Healing always goes where it needs to go.

The invitation is to pause and pray for healing. Pray for healing that you need right now. Ask your loving God, or Jesus or Archangel Raphael who is dedicated to healing, or to a Higher Power or to whoever fits your story. Whichever way we pray or whatever words we use are unique to us. But pray for healing, gentle healing, loving healing and especially the healing you need right now. It always knows where to go.

The Thought For The Week is updated each Monday