Catholic in Belfast

I was 13 years old when I started thinking about committing suicide. "My life is not very important! I should not be living! Life is not worthwhile! I do not have the life I want to!" - those were some of the thoughts that used to assault me for 2 years. Some people think that when you are a teenager this is normal and many young people would say that just out loud, just as an excuse to call attention to themselves but not meaning it... How many young people today think exactly like I used to think 15 years ago? Maybe you know someone or heard about people who committed suicide because this burden and so many thoughts inside them were heavier than what they could bear and they had no where and/or no one to run to. Unfortunately! In order for you to understand why I did not commit suicide I would need to share with you a wee bit of my life. I will tell you how I started to think about this, how this became a normal thing to me, how I used to see death and how I overcame ...

Dear beloved of the Father, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, disciples of the Holy Spirit, today - for the sake of the month of May dedicated to Our Blessed Virgin Mary - we will reflect upon a theme that I am sure will be a bother to many people, it will bring discomfort to the lives of some people, it will bring others to think and, for sure, by the grace of God, this text will open the eyes of loads of peoples who are blind to the reality so we all could progress and grow in the grace of God. I will address this text especially for Catholics, those who are part of a Church centered in Jesus Christ, that has as first pope Saint Peter, that has as mother and intercessor the blessed Virgin Mary, which faith based on two aspects: the Holy Scriptures and the Sacred Tradition. These latter two can not be separated and always give complement and foundation to one another. So what do I mean by this very suggestive title, "The offspring of the Woman"? Who are they? Why ...