The dangers of 'mindfulness'. There is a better way

Those seeking to become open to the presence and power of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, may find my little prayer booklets, "The Spirit Powered Life" and "The Young Person's Spirit Powered Life" helpful. See my website www.jesuspowerministries.org for how to get them.
Re God's Cottage and the Bible Chapel, see www.glendaloughprayercentre.org.
I will also be bringing out another little booklet before Christmas, "Do not settle for fake Christianity

[@koenvanbaal4485]

Dear Father, you are so right! Thank you! New age and all kinds of modern spirituality are destructive for our wellbeing because you are always stimulated to achieve spiritually more and more. It’s never enough. They make you believe that you are not enough the way you are and the way you are made. It robs you from your true identity that is rooted in God and after a while of meditating you hardly remember who you are and what it’s like to be human and vulnerable; longing for God and His presence in your life... so you meditate more and more... to end the emptiness, but all you find is more emptiness.I pray for the Holy Spirit to come and touch all the hearts of people who got tangled up in these false doctrines.

[@GodsCottage]

Your analysis is spot on!

[@philomenasmith6327]

Thank you Father.In these very uncertain times we need to hear good ,strong ,positive sermons like this one.God bless you.

[@GodsCottage]

And thank you for feedback. Appreciated!

[@deirdra169]

Thank you Fr I'm struggling with a very chronic family distress and just listening to you gives me hope.warmth and inspiration.Iv always loved Jesus and IV been handing all my distress over to him for years because I still continue to hope as I know that nothing is impossible with God

[@GodsCottage]

Yes family distress is MOST painful. I am currently planning to speak on that subject (if we are not rained out) next Sunday. I will pray for you in Mass tomorrow, and you please pray that the Holy Spirit will guide me because this is a most complex subject. May the Holy Spirit guide me to speak into your situation and that of other people who have written in to me recently.

[@deirdra169]

@@GodsCottageThankyou Fr

[@margaretschumacher2487]

I too struggle every day with terrible emotional pain and distress, I was reduced to tears reading your message but felt very heartened by your words and pray I can hand all my pain over to Jesus too and leave it in His hands and trust He WILL help us both to cope as Father Thady tells us--and to soldier on up the hill of Calvary as Jesus did for us, God bless you Deirdra from Margaret in Australia And yes THANK YOU Father Thady you are a great inspiration and blessing to me,

[@gerrywalsh7677]

Well done fr . Keep it going . We need all the help we can get.

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for feedback. Appreciated!

[@MarcusD-gn7zr]

Wonderful message. New age is all deception, been there, and the Lord delivered me. Throw out your books, artefacts, crystals, whatever you have as they are cursed objects and trust in the Lord.

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for telling people the truth

[@dianebeaulac9989]

You have a Great gift of teaching! Greetings from Canada, Diane

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for support. Appreciated.

[@seanrathmakedisciples1508]

Diane Beaulac yes a great message in Jesus name

[@Eliezer737]

Thank you so much for all your spiritual guidance and care. We appreciate you very much. May God bless you and protect you always. 🙏

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for feedback. Appreciated! And may He bless you too

[@lourdesportelli6565]

God bless Fr pray for the sheeps that lost there faith l pray too God bless l am from MALTA

[@deirdrehastings5672]

Thank you Father for your Blessing. God bless you for teaching us about the love of God

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for feedback. Appreciated!

[@ak99]

Thank you Father!!!! May God continue to work through you!!!

[@GodsCottage]

And through you also

[@patrickcampbell6686]

Father thaddy, you are in my prayers, I believe the holy Spirit is working through you, and you are in my prayers. Thank you and praise God. Love your videos.

[@GodsCottage]

Glad you found video uplifting. Many thanks for response. Deeply appreciated

[@pamelahirt4728]

Thank you, my Lord and Holy Spirit, for convicting me through this teaching. I have taught mindfulness along with other DBT practices in therapy with clients myself. I honestly had no thought about how it works to replace prayer and meditation upon Our Lord. Please pray with me that my gifts will be used instead to bring others to Christ! May God bless you, Fr. D!

[@GodsCottage]

May God now lead you into the fullness of His plan for your life. Before Christmas I plan to publish another wee booklet, "Don't settle for fake Christianity". Meanwhile as you seek to walk with God you may find my booklets, "The Spirit Powered Life" and The Young Person's Spirit Powered Life" helpful. Re how to get those, see www.jesuspowerministries.org

[@pamelahirt4728]

@@GodsCottage Fr., I would love to read your pamphlets but I'm in the USA! Thank you for your encouraging words. I'll endeavor to seek the Holy Spirit's guidance for the work He has for me to do. Pray for me as I pray for you.

[@octoberdawn1087]

I did not know that catholics were this against DBT therapy which was the only thing that got my autistic daughter out of complete s*dl behavior. My heart is literally broken right now to think that I will have to leave my faith if we are no longer allowed to practice dbt

[@ilsekuper3045]

Thanks again Fr. Doyle! I was led to this path by certain life councellors on UTube, almost felt addicted, but Thanks to God, I was led to a channel of a French Franciscan Sister telling her path to dispair and last rescue out of these pagan practices. I had had my doubts before, and certainly my never ending believe in Jesus finally brought me to this message. I felt so ashamed to not only trusting in Jesus' guidance. I immediately cancelled all abo's and delete all messages popping up which might carry these hidden messages of the wolf in a sheepcoat. Thid infiltration can be sensed everywhere. I have been praying to say the right words at the right time, whenever I meet somebody who has been infected with this sneaky poison. Please pray for me. Greetings from Germany. 😻

[@GodsCottage]

May the Holy Spirit guide you in all things, and may the Holy Spirit put the right people in your path, people who both need to hear and are opening to hear what you share. Meanwhile sincere thanks for your testimony. Deeply appreciated!

[@ursulaherbert9555]

Thank you father ,that was amazing. You have the holy spirit in you .godbless you .

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for feedback. Appreciated!

[@svineont]

I so appreciated your talk Fr.... Tk you very much 😊.

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for feedback. Appreciated!

[@bonkngr2759]

God bless you father

[@GodsCottage]

And bless you too!

[@caroleppenberger3932]

Thank you Fr for this wonderful talk on mindfulness. I agree with you totally. Once people start with doing mindfulness everyday, learning about it all from retreats and yoga etc, they forget all about Jesus. That I know. Carol from Cape Town, South Africa

[@GodsCottage]

Yes, sadly that is true.

[@beasheerhan4482]

Beloved Father - when I began to practice Buddhism, as a young man, I did not not have a clue what was going on in my mind. When I began to work on mindfulness, I was shocked to find horrors in there, many things that had apparently been driving me since my earliest days. Practicing mindfulness, as instructed by Buddhist teachers, within several years my mind cleared out to the point where I could begin to experience peace and contentment, at which point I becamse a much better friend and companion than I had ever been. Ultimately, when Chryst came into me, I believe that, in part, what allowed Him to do that was having cleared my mind of so much negativity , in the first place. Today, I am a fulfilled Orthodox Christian, in a marriage that, happy, has lasted over 20 years. You asked where mindfulness led me, and so I answered. I still use mindfulness today, and, in fact, find that walking the daily walk with Chryst, in full mindfullness, makes things grand. Unlike the vast majority of my childhood friends, who are still in therapy, still depressed, forlorn, and anxious, and still taking psychotropic pills the moment they get out of bed, I have no need for any of that, nor does my wife or our children.

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks for sharing> I fully accept that some people have found 'Mindfulness' helpful. However may I make the following points, 1. Studies have shown that it has had a detrimental impact on the lives of others. I will share more on this in the October issue of The Curate's Diary. 2. For Christians who embrace 'Mindfulness' it often serves as a gateway into a litany of New Age practices. 3. Buddhism contains beliefs, (reincarnation, the need to achieve a higher consciousness) that are incompatible with Christianity, and with accepting Jesus as one's Saviour. 4. You say "When Christ came into me, I believe that, in part, what allowed Him to do that was having cleared my mind of so much negativity." One does not need to clear one's mind of negativity for Jesus to come in. In fact He delights in coming the lives of people who have messed up minds, and then helping them. You comment also causes me to have a wee question as to whether you merely see Christianity as another philosophy, and whether you truly have come to know Jesus

[@beasheerhan4482]

@@GodsCottage Good thinking, Beloved Father. No, I do not see Chryst as just another philosophy, for I never consulted philosophies through prayer, as if they were a living entity, nor did any philosophy inhabit my heart as does The Holy Ghost. However, Kind Sir, there are many philosophies of good Christian living, and, interestingly enough, I have unwittingly bumped correllaries in Buddhism in so many of them. I do not wish to trouble you, by noting this, but, it is so. That said, I do agree with you that there are plenty of people for whom Buddhism can form a permanent impediment to the wonders of The Holy Ghost, for I have seen it. The principle danger is in coming to think of you, yourself, and your philosophies are sufficient, in and of themselves, without Chryst. There is that danger. Somehow Buddhism allowed me to clear myself up enough to actually be open to allowing the Holy Ghost to get inside me, for, before Buddhism, I was so averse to it, it never could have been. Thank you for letting me pick at you, as if we were family, for, though, I have only been aware of your ministry for a week, I am very fond of you.

[@beasheerhan4482]

@@GodsCottage One extra thing, Beloved Father - you are so suspicious of any other path than the one you have walked, I doubt very seriously there is anything anyone could do to overcome that. That said, i will say this to you : ------- I did not 'exchange Buddhism for Christianity', for I have not stopped using my Buddhist practices, nor did I go looking for Christ. No, Sir, He came into me, and, after fighting it for a couple of years, I just faced it, accepted it, professed it to my shocked loved ones, and have lived it the best I could. That said, I have not found any conflicts between Orthodoxy and Buddhism, in the near decade since my conversion. Thank you so much for your thoughtful and substantive remarks. I am lucky for them.

[@nicoleb8211]

God bless you Father! Thank you for your wisdom!

[@GodsCottage]

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[@louisachantung8233]

Thank you so much Father. You touched my life this very moment with the love of Jesus.

[@frankcasey295]

Thank you father

[@GodsCottage]

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[@yeahsure9035]

I don't want power. I want God ✝️. The only True Power ✝️ Is God ✝️. U must b careful what u put in2 ur eye gate, ur heart ❤️ gate, & ur ear gate. God ✝️ Bless. drugs r of the devil. This is the best Jesus ✝️ video I have ever seen. Thank you so much.

[@bonkngr2759]

Lord Jesus come into my life.

[@GodsCottage]

Amen. Amen

[@kensmaman]

Every word you say is true, Fr. Thady. I went some way down this path myself out of a genuine hunger for God and looking for him in all the wrong places. Luckily, God looks beyond our foolishness and understands the intention of our hearts. My Jesus and my Mama Mary came to get me back. Now I will never touch this evil New Age junk. The devil too can give us spiritual experiences enough to mislead us. Jesus is the Only Way, Truth and Life.

[@mariacarroll4250]

DEAR FATHER THADDEUS DOYLE WHAT ANOTHER WONDERFUL VIDEO FROM YOU AGAIN LOVELY TO BE ABLE TO LISTEN AND WATCH YOU FR.ON SUNDAY IN PERSON IN GLANDSLOUGH MAKEING THIS VIDEO AND TALKING WITH YOU, YOUR WONDERFUL WELCOME TO MYSELF AND DAUGHTER SHARON THANK YOU FR.GODS.COTTAGE AND THE BIBLE ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND THE PEOPLE WE MET WERE ONLY LOVELY, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR CARE FR. AND YOUR HEALING, GOD GRANT YOU ALL HIS BLESSINGS NOW AND FOR EVER,MARIA

[@GodsCottage]

So wonderful to meet you and Sharon at God's Cottage.

[@mariacarroll4250]

FR. The Bible chapel is beautiful and so is god's cottages beautiful, this all make glendalough more special and spiritual to all people who will visit iloved your wonderful speich to day and as always FR.part of your healing powers god & we people know is true bless you in all you do, Maria & Sharon,

[@bredafallon5995]

Brilliant talk, thank you.

[@rafagajkowski5720]

Thank You Father God Bless You Father

[@GodsCottage]

And may He bless you too

[@anita-qq9iw]

I didnt know about this, but now I know I can pray for children's protection against it. Thanks Fr

[@iliya3110]

Thank you, Father. I'm an American of Celtic (Irish & Scottish) ancestry and I've really enjoyed the videos you've posted. In regards to the dangers of mindfulness, this is a nefarious snare of the evil one. Instead, much better to practice Carmelite mental prayer, lexio divina, or the practice of the Jesus Prayer, after the example of Eastern Catholics/Orthodox. Stay away from the pagan practice of mindfulness, brothers and sisters, and pray to our Lord in the Spirit instead. Thank you, Father. St. Patrick and St. Columba, pray for us! Pray for me, father, a sinner.

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks. But before all forms of mental prayer one needs to come to a living relationship with Jesus. Jesus desires for us to have a living relationship with Him, to know Him as our best Friend, to learns how to bring our problems to Him.

[@iliya3110]

@@GodsCottage Absolutely. That's true. Some might try to use mental prayer in a false way, when the whole point of mental prayer is to converse lovingly with Jesus and grow in intimacy with Him and not to seek "good feelings" like mindfulness teaches.

[@iliya3110]

@Tania Mara We must remember that absolute separation of Church and State is a profound error and the Church condemned it already. Such a State is a like a body without a soul - it's dead. In time Christendom will be restored. A country like America cannot live without a [Catholic] soul. Before the Puritans arrived in North America, it was inhabited by Catholics and pagans converting to Catholicism. I am an American, but I know our foundation is sand. A true patriot desires the conversion of his nation that it might recognize Christ as its King and submit itself to the Church, of which the State, ought to be a member. For this is Christ's commandment, that we baptize all - nations - in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Fiat!

[@domedweller4202]

Jesus I Trust in You.❤

[@GodsCottage]

Amen, Amen

[@juliapetherick1]

Yes Mindfulness is everywhere. I was instructed how to use it in a pain management programme to deal with chronic pain. It was part of a hospital's pain management programme.

[@GodsCottage]

Sadly true. Yet Jesus is always more powerful

[@carolinafarmgirl1057]

Father, you are so right. I used to practice mediumship, tarot cards, new age, and it led to witchcraft. I had a terrifying experience that sent me running back to the church. Now I am fully Catholic & my husband converted. Our marriage was blessed last year by our priest. Demons are as real as shadow & I wish people truly knew how dangerous these things are. I'm still dealing with some oppression after all of these years. (Sleep paralysis) The rosary helps a lot. Thank you for preaching the truth. May God bless you.

[@GodsCottage]

"God works all things for the good for those who love Him" Even our former sins when we repent of them. Thank you for your witness. Do make intercession for anyone you led into the New Age. God forgives our sins, so leave guilt behind, but we still have a responsibility towards those we have hurt or lead astray

[@seanrathmakedisciples1508]

Thanks you are right. We are to meditate on God’s word daily. Be not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds by God’s word. Romans 12:2. Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the word of God Matthew 4:4

[@GodsCottage]

Amen

[@msconnleon]

I really enjoy these videos

[@liamlaffan7142]

Thank you Father , I agree with you totally, it is great to see that Jesus has sent you to make people aware of all the new age practices going on all over Ireland. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR MINISTRY.

[@julieh7456]

God Bless you Father! I am an American lifetime Catholic. I am feeling empty today, even though I had a good hour of prayer earlier. Your passionate homily really lifts me up and gives me hope, because some days I have a difficult time feeling at peace. I’m a sinner, and I repent to the lord. But I see I can’t forgive myself, at times. Thank you Father for giving me hope and encouragement to trusting the lord. I am married for a long time to someone who is not Christian. Please pray for me/us. I look forward to your future videos. 3 Hail Marys to you, Father.

[@GodsCottage]

Sorry to hear life is so often a struggle for you. Glad that my videos help. I have placed your name on the altar where I will celebrate Mass in the morning and will remember you in it. You may find my earlier tutorial videos helpful

[@julieh7456]

God'sCottage Thank-you Father, that means everything for you to include me in morning mass. I truly look forward to watching your past and future videos! Praying for you and all catholic priests, Bishops, Pope Francis, that the lord and Mary will continue to Bless and inspire us in social

[@julieh7456]

In social media and in their Parishes.

[@hilltop521]

Very true people are going in different directions to find themselves if they look at nature and its beauty they wouldn't be going into these past time's

[@giselleyoung8884]

Thank you for this video god bless you

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks for positive response. Deeply appreciated

[@giselleyoung8884]

🙏🙏

[@_Dublin_Girl_]

Very clear explanation about the New Age deception. As the scholar Constance Cumbey says, "They have something for everyone." There are many former practitioners of New Age who have given detailed testimony such as Moira Noonan, Warren Smith, Steve Bancarz, Marcia Montenegro, Roger Buck, Caryl Matrisciana, and Joanna Michelsen. All these testimonies are worth exploring in depth, along with Constance Cumbey's books and lectures. Some are Catholic, others Protestant. Thank you Father. This is perhaps the most important subject to be speaking on, because this sophisticated and powerful deception has infiltrated everywhere, but people don't understand what it is, its final objectives, or how it works to destroy 🙏

[@GodsCottage]

Yes there are loads of testimonies on KZbin. Just Google "from New Age to Jesus"

[@MsLucky443]

Thank you very much for this. I’ve seen this “Mindfulness” many places. I wondered about it. I wondered if it was common sense or yoga in your mind.

[@lidette711]

Thank you, Father! Thank you for your courage and honesty. I have been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and ADHD two years ago. My doctor advised that I try mindfulness training, meditation, and yoga, so I did. But for some reason, I can't really stick to them. I would do them and they would feel lacking, or altogether wrong. There is, however, a small chapel outside my doctor's clinic, and I would pray there after therapy, and attend Mass if there happens to be a mass after my session. My depression got better in 4 months (instead of 6, as originally predicted by my doctor), and in my darkest moments, I would hear encouraging things that would give me hope and would stop me from harming myself. This year, I've realized that a lot of the things that are "trendy" today conflict with the teachings of God and Catholic Church. I've been so tired of hearing the same things over and over, that I said to myself, "Enough of this! I'm going home." Watching your videos are part of my journey home to my Catholic roots, father. Thank you for reaching us online. 🇵🇭

[@GodsCottage]

I am thrilled that you are finding the videos helpful. Meanwhile it would appear that the Holy Spirit was already guiding you

[@lightowl4345]

Greetings from Washington state Fr. The new age practices are everywhere. Christian's are using these things without knowing that they conflict with church teachings. Thank you for posting. God Bless you.

[@GodsCottage]

Sadly what you say is most true

[@sally-annemartinsen1095]

Greetings from Finland- thank you very much Father , for this enlightening & most relevant video.

[@fr.mhasikholieswiho8252]

Fr. Please keep me in your prayers

[@GodsCottage]

May God's blessing surround you now and always

[@fr.mhasikholieswiho8252]

@@GodsCottage Thank you Fr

[@stephanieb2484]

Thank you Father Doyle. Praying for you. Please persist with battling the 'new age' ideology-- I got so involved with this that I was surely going to hell and had no idea because I believed it was 'good' because all religions were good. Finally I researched my own Catholic Church teachings and was shocked at how many lies I had swallowed with all the new age stuff. Praised be Jesus and Mary, they didn't abandon me and I returned to the one holy Catholic and apostolic Church.

[@stephanieb2484]

PS greetings from Australia

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks for your testimony. Deeply appreciated. May Jesus lead you into an ever deeper relationship with Himself

[@Kyntai]

Father, thank you for calling out the dangers of mindfulness. This is the 2nd video I've watched so I'm not familiar with all of your material. I am a convert to the Catholic faith since 2014 from various Protestant denominations. Father a "red flag" popped up for me when you led your audience into a prayer that I remember quite well from my Protestant background. In general I guess you could call it the "Let Jesus into your heart prayer". At approx 10:50 you said "That's all it requires". Father, can you explain further what you mean? It's very clear in the Holy Scriptures that our first Pope, the apostle Peter at Pentecost called the sinners to baptism, Acts 2:38. Grace flows through the Sacraments of the Holy Catholic Church. Our Catholic Catechism is quite clear on this. I fully understand that there is grace imparted when a sinner sincerely calls upon the Lord. I did this before becoming Catholic. I asked Jesus Christ in prayer to "Lead me into the truth" and He answered that prayer by leading me into the Holy Bible. But it wasn't until later when I became Catholic and received the Sacraments of Confirmation, Penance, and the Eucharist that I was fully healed of some very grievous mortal sins. Praying the Rosary was also a critical component of my final healing. Our Lady led me even closer to her Son. I believe St. Dominic often called for sinners to pray the Rosary for the grace of conversion. I guess what I'm most concerned about is the heresy of Protestantism that has crept into the Holy Catholic Church. I have personally encountered Catholics that see no problem with Protestantism and even embrace tenets of it (such as not going to Confession at all, unbelief in the Real Presence, etc.). Protestants are often very sure of their salvation (I was) after their single prayer to Jesus to come into their heart. But this is not true. It is not supported anywhere in the 2000 year history of the Catholic Church. Would you explain your use of the "Let Jesus into your heart prayer"? Thank you.

[@GodsCottage]

I am delighted that you have joined the one Church founded by Jesus Christ, but that does not mean that everything you learned while a Protestant is wrong. You need Jesus to live within you. Jesus is God. He desires to live in your heart. But first you need to invite Him. That is the first step

[@mememcd4885]

Thank you Father. I am grateful to come across your videos. My mum passed away a couple weeks ago. I have been feeling very down and drinking too much wine. I need Lord Jesus and not the wine. I give in too easily to temptation.

[@GodsCottage]

I will pray in Mass this morning that you will come to so love Jesus that day by day, even hour by hour, you will starve the urge to drink, and that Jesus will fill the gap in your life.

[@mememcd4885]

@@GodsCottage thank you so much Father. I greatly appreciate that.

[@mememcd4885]

@@GodsCottage Thank you very much Father. I appreciate that so much.

[@jackieo8693]

Thank you for this. I thought "mindfulness" just meant paying attention to what you are doing. Thanks for the clarification.

[@cliffordparmeter6940]

I don't really think it is harmful l use it and it has helped me and l did not join a cult!

[@jaelanderson6263]

Thank you

[@PaddyNinja]

Holy Moly Father, I bought a HeartMath device off Amazon for £160 last week, now I'm gonna have to chuck it in the bin. That was a question I needed answered last month. I should've come to Jesus with my TachyCardia problem. I'm pretty sure the practice of all 4 Holy Rosary's which I started on the 3rd of August 2020 has led me to this answer. Sorry for any grief I give you in the comments Father, but I believe in dialogue not monologue. Having said that I owe you one, or to be more accurate I owe Jesus one. ♥ PS: I said the prayer too : )

[@GodsCottage]

Only a medical person can advise you re HeartMath devices, for I certainly haven't a clue. Never even heard of one

[@PaddyNinja]

@@GodsCottage Oh Father that was a politically correct 5hing to say.🤔👍

[@GodsCottage]

@@PaddyNinja How do you know that there wasn't another person passing it on?

[@PaddyNinja]

@@GodsCottage Because he was the only sick person in the place in as many weeks and then when he went out on sick leave everyone else displayed influenza symptoms.

[@PaddyNinja]

@@GodsCottage A heartmath is a device that monitors your pulse by clipping it to your ear. It knows by the tempo of your heart if you're focusing (mindfulness) or if you're not. When you control your heart rate, your brain waves slow to match your slow rate of deep breathing, this is called heart brain coherence. The energy generated by a steady prolonged coherence builds the electromagnetic force field which surrounds every human called the quantum field. I don't know if I'm correct but I suspect the quantum field exists in the dark matter universe. The scientists at Cern in Switzerland have melted reality itself using something called Quarks which also look suspiciously like a Merkaaba, regardless the higgs boson particles hold quarks together like glue, and the equipment at Cern melts this glue (search Cern BP Earthwatch) BPEarthwatch is an Endtimes watchman. The scientists beamed a laser th

[@domedweller4202]

Thankyou Father Doyle, yes I absolutely agree with you.You gave a powerful sermon Father.God bless you Father Doyle for all that you are doing to bring the Truth of the Gospel to the people.I love to listen to your sermons and always feel closer to God after them.All Praise and Glory be given to Our Lord Jesus Christ.Wouldn't it be lovely Father if they taught the children the Rosary in schools, it would bring peace and better understanding of the Gospel, as well as grace.The children might get their parents involved as well.The family that prays together stays together.Togetherness in prayer rather than alone in mindfulness which is harmful in my opinion.Fathers need to lead in prayer like in the old days.How wonderful that would be.Strong faithful Catholic fathers could change this country for the better.It would be beautiful. God bless you Father Doyle.

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks. Delighted to hear the homilies are helping your. But even before the Rosary one needs to help our children come to a living relationship with Jesus. Jesus desires for us to have a living relationship with Him, to know Him as our best Friend, to learns how to bring our problems to Him. Alongside doing that, teach them the Rosary.

[@domedweller4202]

@@GodsCottage I agree wholeheartedly with you Father.Without Jesus we are lost sheep.Keep up the excellent work Father.You are calling people back to Jesus !!!!! I love your honest but gentle and forgiving attitude,you really are a breathe of fresh air in a world of loveydovey sermons that don't teach us the right and proper way to live as a good Catholics..We need to be told what is wrong and what is right in the eyes of God .We need to learn how to live like true soldiers of God.We are starving for the Truth, which will set us Free. Thankyou .

[@tessd916]

Thank you so very much. God bless you.

[@GodsCottage]

Thank you also

[@arminthaller7284]

I have some experience with mindfulness, even served for a year in a house of retreat teaching a practice very similar to mindfulness. I can confirm most of the dangers you described. Differenty from you I do not attribute those outcomes to mindfulness but to a lack of discretion. Many exercises of our Catholic tradition can have similar negarive effects, take fasting as an example. Anorexia is an example of fasting becoming destructive. You surely noticed the negative effect of being absent minded during saying the mass as I do. Maybe you even experienced becoming more focused by the support of some of the fathful not being absent minded carrying the others by their intense prayer incuding me, the priest. If mindfulness is understood as not being absentminded, it helps in worship as well as in the service for our neighbour. One's purpose moving them to become mindful is very important. If it's used as a tool of self- perfection I think it is as dangerous as you described it. If its used to improve one's worship by beiing able to better pay attention to God and the neighbor, it is very useful for some of us. A good spiritual guidance is recommended. A Buddhst won't help one to come closer to Jesus.

[@joanb4282]

Please keep me in your prayers

[@bernadettekeogh639]

Thank you so much. Would you consider a short video suitable for children?

[@1woksape606]

Fatima movie is good- can be rented on youtube or amazon for $20.00

[@patrickcampbell6686]

Once you discover Jesus you will fall in love with God, mindfulness is empty. Power? I don't want it . Serving God is where it's at. It's when I am weak I am strong - it's through Jesus. What a beautiful savior we have been given- Jesus. There is no love in mindfulness.

[@CrummyX1000]

It is all true what Father says.My daughter started delving in New age practices has given up her career is now a life coach , does mindfulness, uses tarot cards you name it. Is making lots of money . I pray every day that one day she will come back to our faith.

[@GodsCottage]

How heartbreaking!! May God bless your prayer for your daughter. I will remember you and her in Mass this morning.

[@sevenswords8781]

First page on google.....states A 1992 study by David Shapiro, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, found that 63% of the group studied, who had varying degrees of experience in meditation and had each tried mindfulness, had suffered at least one negative effect from meditation retreats, while 7% reported profoundly adverse effects

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks for your important contribution. Appreciated!

[@edmondlonergan9915]

good.

[@rosavelez6624]

My Trouble is knowing his way

[@brotherdave2000]

Thank you for this important message, Fr Thady. Did you ever meet John Gillespie of the book "The Miracle Ship"?

[@GodsCottage]

Just heard of him

[@covenant157]

I found renewing of your mind means learning to choose better ways (jesus way) when you have the option to do something bad, instead, choose not to. man cannot nor will choose this way if not having the holy spirit. Facts

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks for positive response. May we see a new movement of the Holy Spirit in our own area

[@cliffordparmeter6940]

But most of all l pray to our good lord several times a day

[@GodsCottage]

Amen. He is the true way

[@PaddyNinja]

Plague of Corruption by Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively and foreword by Robert Jnr. F. Kennedy. This is the truth Father. IF you're interested in that kind of thing.

[@richardfagan2546]

Powerful

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for feedback. Appreciated!

[@hhnnbjnn7968]

Thank you Fr Thady for highlighting this. Its becoming very popular in schools and I have noticed it advertised in some parish newsletters. Praise God. 🙋.frank

[@GodsCottage]

Yes, sadly this is so

[@arjenvandoorne9321]

Mindfulness is of God and avoids the seaman of the danger to be lost or perish by self taking responsibility as Jesus teached at sea. Jesus came not to proclaim himself as God but as an example of belief to God for the by God promised future of life.

[@GodsCottage]

Sincere thanks for sharing the New Age belief that Jesus wasn't really God. It helps to make my point that 'Mindfulness' is based on an understanding of God that is not Christian. Meanwhile "the language of the cross may be illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation" I Corinthians 1:18. If you still call yourself a Christian, you might find a little booklet that I plan to publish before Christmas helpful - "Don't settle for fake Christianity".

[@arjenvandoorne9321]

@@GodsCottage In the end are all called to belief to God Creator after understanding reality. To keep youth for God's promise of eternal life is something else than aging till death. Remember me the cottage from the time of my voyage with my sailboat (09).

[@maryisaac1734]

What time do you holy mass

[@Anon.5216]

Great teaching Father - but I wish you would speak a bit lower.

[@amymarie7403]

Sound warning.

[@Kitiwake]

What's mindfulness exactly?

[@Kitiwake]

"Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment. The best way to take your mind off any problem that bothers you is to say the Rosary. In 20 minutes you are clear minded and calm again and your have stored up some "treasure in heaven".

[@thechristiantouch2314]

Here's another video about the dangers of mindfulness: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJ-lYahngb1jras

[@GodsCottage]

Many thanks. May the Lord guide, bless and protect you in 2022.

[@michellecairns7381]

😂❤

[@MrEnniscorthy]

I thought Mindfulness ignores any idea of God

[@GodsCottage]

Yes, but it springs from an understanding of God, and when anyone delves beneath the surface they immediately encounter this often without even realising it.

[@thestupidgamer1779]

me god, god me? Me fool,fool me you mean?

[@GodsCottage]

Yes, one sometimes can't help laugh!

[@liammccann8763]

Mindfulness is rooted in the eastern outlook of Buddhism. Buddhism does not have a God or deity. I do meet people who claim to practice Buddhism and make a point of asking why the Japanese flag has the image of Christ. In fact, all Catholic alters face east, they face the Rising Son, the beating heart of the universe. Ne timeas.

[@GodsCottage]

Yes, mindfulness is rooted in Buddhism. Buddhism denies the Christian concept of eternal life, and so denies Jesus Christ as Saviour. Instead it teaches reincarnation, and that through meditation one can achieve a higher consciousness. Very often mindfulness also serves as a gateway to other New Ages practices that come from Hindu and other backgrounds

[@PaddyNinja]

Didn't agree with the social distancing at the end though. My colleague gave me influenza x2 last year and he was sitting approximately 20+ feet away in the Control center where I work in a local hospital and that's 7 feet further than the 2nd safe distance called by Clown Dr Anthony Fauci in June 2020 which is twice the distance of 6.5 feet that they were originally and are still saying is safe. And my colleague didn't sneeze or cough either time he passed it to me. And I didn't use the equipment he used and being a hospital I wash my hands like a doctor in a clinical setting. But the mask will save us right? Ask a construction worker to remove his mask next time he uses a grinder. The dust is all over his nose and mouth area and the dust particles are at least a thousand times bigger than a virus particle so work that one out. On a positive note, I spoke to the Consultant in charge of the c*r*nav*r*s response in the North personally and he said "superboost your immune system, that will kill the v*rus as it enters your body". Unfortunately I can't publish his name, as the government is forcing him to tell everyone to social distance and wear your mask among other things. Oddly enough, the people at EVENT 201 were told to get influencers in religious circles (wink wink) to encourage fear in the pland*mic, so they would all take the vaccine when it is made to combat phase 2 of the pland*mic. We can all trust Mr. G*tes of course, sure he only recommended Marina Abramovic as performer of 2020, check that one out Father, only say a prayer before you search and a prayer after. The St Micheal prayer should do it. And maybe the Memorare to Our Lady too. Anyway I'm off to juice my greens and eat my fruit Father, organic of course. Isn't it unusual Father that there are tighter restrictions being placed on the "non radiated Heirloom Seeds" which are the only seeds that can be harvested and replanted over and over. The powers that be are telling us to prepare for possible FAMINE as they close yet more cow and chicken farms and plants all over the U.S and U.K and Mr. G*tes and Mr. S*ros are telling us they have new fake meat and protein from locust ready for us to ingest. Now why would anyone do that, when juiced (not cooked) vegetables will kill the v*rus and the workers could all go back to work and the FAMINE would be avoided. Isn't that a strange one Father. Perhaps we should pray on it and watch the "IceAgeFarmer" on youtube to keep up to date with what the enemies of souls are up to. Oh and since I started doing the LemonGingerBlast this year I'm the only one at work who hasn't been sick from the flu. Check out the Four Thieves Oil story Father. The Four Thieves were the only ones who were in many houses (where dead bodies lay) effected by the Black Plague and they were not effected by the Plague. Hmmnn? God bless Father.

[@GodsCottage]

Were you in the same enclosed room for more than 2 hours? The virus can build up in an enclosed room. Meanwhile how can you be sure it was your colleague that you got it from? Or that you didn't touch some object, like a door, that he had touched. Also the flu and Covid 19 react in different ways.

[@PaddyNinja]

@@GodsCottage Because he gave it to 9 other people too. hahahahaha.

[@josephmckernan2388]

Who ever is teaching mindfulness to people need to mind there own business everyone should lay there problems at the feet of jesus with sincerity and ask him to send his holy spirit to all of us to lead us on the right path and also ask our beloved mother mary to guide us all closer to her beloved son jesus

[@GodsCottage]

Thanks for feedback. Appreciated!

[@josephmckernan2388]

@@GodsCottage 👍