BISHOP MARY BRIDGET MEEHAN AT ORATORY THIS COMING SUNDAY

BISHOP MARY BRIDGET MEEHAN AND TWO OF HER PRIEST COLLEAGUES WILL BE CELEBRATING A EUCHARIST THIS SUNDAY - AUGUST 20TH 2017 AT THE ORATORY IN LARNE AT 12 NOON.

They have been invited to celebrate by Bishop Pat and the congregation that meets at The Oratory every Sunday.

They will stay at The Oratory on Saturday and Sunday nights and will be availing of the opportunity to visit The Giants Causeway on Sunday afternoon.

During the ceremony the women priests will talk to the congregation about their vocations and their movement in the USA and worldwide.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND ON SUNDAY AT 12 AND ALSO TO ATTEND A DISCUSSION AFTERWARDS.

The address:

The Oratory

Prince's Gardens,

Larne. Co. Antrim. BT401RQ

THE CEREMONY

Liturgy: Celebrating New Life as Midwives of Grace

GATHERING SONG AND GREETING

Presider:  In the name of God, Midwife of Grace, and of Jesus our brother, and of the Holy Spirit, our Liberator.  ALL:  Amen

Presider:  My sisters and brothers, God loves us infinitely and is with us always.  ALL:  and also with you.

PENITENTIAL RITE

Presider:  Let us pause now for reflection.  Place your hand over your heart and breathe in God’s passionate love for you…breathe out God’s, extravagant love for everyone….

Open yourself to Spirit energy empowering you…

Now let us praise God by singing Glory to God…

Song of Praise: Glory to God, glory. O praise Glory alleluia. 
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God. (x2)

OPENING PRAYER

Presider: God of Love, Midwife of grace, we experience your grace drawing us to new life in the depths of our mystical souls and in our prophetic call. We rejoice with our brother Jesus, through the power of your Spirit.  ALL: Amen. 

LITURGY OF THE WORD

First Reading Isaiah : 56:1, 6.

Responsorial Psalm 22:9-10

Second Reading Galatians 3:28

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia

Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28

Reader:  The good news of Jesus, the Christ!

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading 1: Isaiah 56: 1, 6-7

A Reading from the Book of Isaiah:

Thus says the Holy One:
Observe what is right, do what is just;
for my salvation is about to come,
my justice, about to be revealed.
The foreigners who join themselves to God, ministering and loving the name of the Holy One,
and becoming God’s  servants—
all who keep the Sabbath
and hold to my covenant-
I will bring to my holy mountain
and they will be joyful in my house of prayer…
for my house shall be called
a house of prayer for all peoples.

These are the inspired words from the prophet Isaiah

Responsorial Psalm: “Spirit of the Living God, Fall Afresh on Me” Sung from recorded music

Reading 2: Psalm 22:9-10

“Yet, You drew me out of the womb, you nestled me to my mother’s bosom; you cradled me in your lap from my birth; from my mother’s womb, you have been my God.” These are the inspired words from the author of the Psalms.

Alleluia: Celtic Alleluia Sung

Gospel MT 15:21-28

At that time, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out,
"Have pity on me, Son of David!
My daughter is tormented by a demon."
But Jesus did not say a word in answer to her.
Jesus' disciples came and asked him,
"Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us."
He said in reply,
"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
But the woman came and did Jesus homage, saying,  “Rabbi, help me."
He said in reply,
"It is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs."
She said, "Please, Rabbi, for even the dogs eat the scraps
that fall from the table of their masters."
Then Jesus said to her in reply,
"O woman, great is your faith!
Let it be done for you as you wish."
And the woman's daughter was healed from that hour.

ALL:  Glory and praise to you, Jesus the Christ!

                           HOMILY

Profession of Faith:  ALL:  We believe in God who is compassion in our world. We believe in Jesus, whose death and resurrection reveals God’s infinite love. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the breath of Wisdom Sophia, who energizes and guides us to live Christ’s presence. We believe in the communion of saints, our heavenly friends, who inspire us to live holy lives. We believe in the church as the people of God, living in faith, hope and love.

GENERAL INTERCESSIONS

Presider:  That we may bring new life into our world, we pray

Response: God of all, love through us

Presider:  That we may foster healing of our Earth, we pray.  R.  

Presider:  That the sick may be healed, we pray.  R.   

Presider:  That we may be forever one with our beloved dead in the communion of saints we pray. R.   (Other Intentions)

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS

Presider:  Blessed are you, God of all life, through your goodness we have bread, wine, all creation, and our own lives to offer.  Through this sacred meal may we become your new creation.  (hold up bread and wine)

ALL:  Blessed be God forever.

(All come around the table to pray the Eucharistic Prayer, background music may be played) 

Presider:  God is with you, abounding in love

ALL:  and also with you. 

Presider:  Lift up your hearts in Christ who lives and loves , heals and empowers through you.

ALL:  We lift them up to God. 

Presider:  Let us give thanks to our God.

ALL:  It is right to give God thanks and praise.

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER

Voice One:  Life-giving Love, You call all persons to be friends of God. United with You, we are one with all beings in the community of creation as we celebrate the new life occurring in our expanding cosmos. We join the angels and saints as we sing:

ALL: Sung “We are holy, holy, holy, you are holy, holy, holy, I am holy, holy, holy” chant by Karen Drucker

Voice Two:  Gracious God, you set the banquet table and invite all to the feast that celebrates your dazzling love in the universe.  As midwives of grace we are Your hands, lifting up those who suffer, the vulnerable and neglected in our world today

Voice Three: We especially thank you, Holy One, for Jesus, the Compassion of God, who came to show us a new vision of community where every person is loved and all relate with mutual respect.

Voice Four:

Jesus threatened the religious and political leaders of his time and so they put him to death.  As God raised Jesus to new life, we trust that your promise of faithful love will be with us in our suffering and raise us up to fullness of life. 

All: (please all extend hands as we recite the consecration together)

Let your Spirit come upon these gifts as we pray:

On the night before he died, Jesus took bread into his hands and said:

This is my body, he said. Take and eat .

 Do this in in memory of me.

Pause

At the end of the meal Jesus took a cup of wine, raised it in thanksgiving to you, and said:

”Take and drink of the covenant made new again through my life in you. Do this in memory of me.

Presider:  Now then, let us proclaim the mystery of the Christ Presence made new again through you:  

ALL:  In every creature that has ever breathed, Christ has lived; in every living being that has passed on before us, Christ has died;  in everything yet to be, Christ will come again! 

Voice Five:  .  We thank you for ordinary people in our lives who show us how to love tenderly and have revealed the heart of our God, especially  (pause to remember and name some of these holy women and men). 

Voice Six: And so, liberating God, Midwife of Grace, we hold our religious ministers and political leaders in the light of Christ Sophia, Holy Wisdom.  We pray for our pope and bishops, the young and the elders, and all God’s holy people.

Voice Seven:  We remember those who are sick and suffering.  May they be healed and comforted.  We remember Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary Magdala, Peter, Paul,  Junia, our patron saints.  We remember our loved ones and all those who have died, that they may experience the fullness of life in the embrace of our gracious God.

ALL:  Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, all praise and glory are yours, Holy God, through the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

THE PRAYER OF JESUS

ALL:  Our Father and Mother . . .

and forever.  Amen.

THE SIGN OF PEACE

Presider:  Let us pray for the peace of Christ in our world as we sing and hold hands in a community prayer for peace (Peace is flowing or other appropriate hymn)

 LITANY FOR THE BREAKING OF BREAD

ALL:  Loving God, You call us to speak truth to power, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live the Gospel of peace and justice, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live as Your presence in the world.  We will do so.

Presider:  Behold the Body of Christ.  All are invited to partake of this sacred banquet of love. 

ALL:  Jesus we are worthy to receive you and become you for others.  We are the Body of Christ. 

Presider:  Let us share the Body of Christ with the Body of Christ!  ALL:  Amen.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Presider:  Life-giving God, You come to birth each day in our universe through suffering death and new life. Your Spirit is moving in us as we love passionately, and extravagantly to bring  your shalom to everyone equally especially the marginalized.

ALL:  Amen

CONCLUDING RITE

Presider:  Our God is with you.

ALL:  and also with you. 

BLESSING

(everyone please extend your hands in mutual blessing)

ALL:  Holy One, Midwife of Grace, we bless one another as we serve others with loving kindness .

DISMISSAL

Presider:   Go, bring forth life as midwives of grace in our world.  Let the service begin!  ALL:   Thanks be to God.

CONCLUDING HYMN

God, A Midwife: Psalm 22:9-10 “Yet You drew me out of the womb, you nestled me to my mother’s bosom; you cradled me in your lap from my birth; from my mother’s womb, you have been my God.”

                              Bridget Mary Meehan

Association of Roman Catholic Woman Priests

http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/

www.arcwp.org

PAT SAYS:

I am delighted to welcome Mary Bridget and her two colleagues to The Oratory next Sunday.

I have been a supporter of Catholic Women's Ordination for over 20 years.

As I have said before I ordained Mother Frances Meigh a priest in 1998 and she still ministers as a hermit priest at Forkhill in County Armagh. 

I welcome all those interested next Sunday.

GAY - STRAIGHT versus PROMISCUOUS

I THINK WE NEED A LITTLE CLARITY ON THE WHOLE QUESTION OF PRIESTS - GAY AND STRAIGHT - AND SEX.

The first thing to say is that the RC Church requires celibacy - and chastity - from all bishops and priests - straight and gay - who have not been given a dispensation like former Anglican priests have.

This means that a bishop or priest should - according to Church teaching and discipline - should not be having sex with ANYONE - either a man or a woman.

So if a "celibate" priest has one or many sexual partners - he is breaking his promises or vows.

Many priests say that celibacy is a bad man made and unjust law and that therefore - in conscience they are not bound to obey that law.

 So my first question today to Blog readers is:

1. IS CELIBACY A BAD UNJUST LAW AND THEREFORE ARE PRIESTS, IN CONSCIENCE, FREE TO DISOBEY IT AND HAVE ONE LOVING SEXUAL PARTNER?

That would be my own personal opinion and I have often talked to priests, inside and outside of Confession, who live their lives in this way.

Of course, other people would call them hypocrites in that they are pretending to be celibate and are not.

Others still would say to them - if you need a sexual partner the most honourable thing to do in to leave the priesthood and stop living a lie. some 250,000 priests have done this since the mid 1960's. 

My second question today to Blog readers is:

2. SHOULD THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ALLOW A GAY PRIEST TO HAVE ONE LOVING SEXUAL PARTNER?

My opinion is that the Church should and that the RC Church has got it all wrong on homosexuality - especially homosexuality in the context of ONE loving stable relationship.

Others agree with the Church that homosexuality is a "disorder" and that a sexually active homosexual priest is unfit for ministry.

My third question for Blog readers today is:

3. IS THERE A MORAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRIEST - STRAIGHT OR GAY - HAVING ONE LOVING STABLE PARTNER AND A PRIEST WHO IS A "JACK THE LAD" AND WHO MAKES SURE HE GETS AS MUCH SEX ANYWHERE HE CAN?

My opinion is that there is a moral difference in the sense that there is LOVE in a committed relationship with one person and that being a "Jack The Lad" is all about lust, self-pleasure and using people.

This Blog does not highlight the cases of priests in a loving committed relationship - even though I understand that some people think this is wrong too.

This Blog has been dealing with cases like;

a. The likes of Father Kieran Dallat of Down and Connor who made a parishioner pregnant, left her to have a miscarriage alone in her bathroom and then dropped her like a hot potato.

b. The Case of Father Rory Coyle who used Grindr to show his genitals to a young man - a former pupil of his.

c. The case of Father Eamon McCamley of Keady who masturbated on line at 1 in the morning for all, including parishioners to see.

d. The case of the Raphoe priest who "encountered" a young man in a Derry toilet.

e. The case of another Raphoe priest who hangs around public toilets in Coleraine and the North Coast.

f. The case of another Northern priest who cruises the toilets in the same area dressed in leather.

g. The case of a Dublin priest who was being blackmailed by a young lover/rent boy who it is rumored was paid off by the priest's superiors.

h. The cases of Gorgeous, King Puck, Horny Andy etc of Maynooth and the promiscuous "strange goings on" in that place for decades.

i. The case of a Derry priest with a female lover who was just transferred to another parish with her good self in tact. 

j. The case of a Meath priest cruising truck stops in the midlands.

k. The various goings on at World Youth Day and in "The Meadow" on Lourdes Pilgrimages. 

l. The various cases handled by Sean "The Wounded Healer" Brady solved by a move from a Northern Parish to a County Louth Parish.

m. The case of the faulty computer of Pomeroy.

n. The case of the Maynooth seminarian who lay naked and face down on his bed to "facilitate" "visitors". 

o. The unsolved mystery of the Bray alleged rape.

etc, etc, 

Are folks getting the message?

This is not about a good and human priest falling in love with one person.

This is about the "homosexualisation" of the Catholic priesthood in Ireland and internationally involving seminarians, priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals etc.

And it is about that "gay cabal" becoming so big and so influential, and so widespread as to represent a threat to the Church and the priesthood - not to mention morality.

I happen to be a gay man.

But I do not want the Church transformed into a Gay Church, A Straight Church, A Transexual Church, A Bisexual Church. a Male Church, A Female Church, A Clerical Club Church, etc.

I want the Church to be for EVERYONE.

I want the Church to tolerate and love and accept EVERYONE.

I want the priesthood to be the same - representative of humanity and society as a whole.

I want there to be DIVERSITY within UNITY. 

That cannot happen if any particular TAIL is allowed to wag the WHOLE DOG.

Is that not what we have had with the HIERARCHY TAIL wagging THE WHOLE DOG?

And one very large tail - the gay cabal tail - from New York to Rome to Maynooth is a very problematic tail - and has been so for the last 3 or 4 decades. 

It's got to the point now that celibate gay seminarians and heterosexual seminarians are being driven away!

Catholic woman bishop on recruitment drive in Ireland

• The Irish Times
 
• 15 Aug 2017
 
• PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent

BISHOP MARY BRIDGET MEEHAN (centre) with Rosemary Smead (left) and Barbara Duff

Bishop Mary Bridget Meehan celebrating Mass. She hopes to encourage other women to ordination while in Ireland.

Five women who believe they have a vocation to the Catholic priesthood have contacted a US delegation visiting Ireland this month to recruit female priests.

From the US-based Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests (ARCWP), the delegation is being led by Irish-born Bishop Mary Bridget Meehan, who is accompanied by Rev Mary Theresa Streck and Rev Joan Chesterfield.

Speaking of the five women seeking ordination, Bishop Meehan said they “already have theology degrees and diplomas in spirituality”.

A Mass celebrated by Bishop Meehan, in a community centre on Dublin’s South Circular road, was attended by “35 to 40” people earlier this month, while the delegation met a similar number more recently in Drogheda.

NOIRIN NI RIAIN

They have also visited Glenstal Abbey at Murroe, Co Limerick, where they met former Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman and Nóirín Ní Riain who was ordained Rev Nóirín Ní Riain, minister in the One Spirit Inter Faith Seminary Foundation, last month.

DOM HEDERMAN

Bishop Meehan said she had also met Limerick parish priest Fr Roy Donovan who last week called for the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood and objected to the introduction of a male-only permanent diaconate in his Cashel archdiocese before completion of a report by the papal commission on women deacons.

The meeting with Fr Donovan was “very open” she said, and he had put her in contact with a woman who believes she too has a vocation.

FATHER RPY DONOVAN

Bishop Meehan was raised to the episcopacy in 2009 at Santa Barbara, California, after ordination to the Catholic priesthood at Pittsburgh in 2006.

Her family is from Crosskerry, near Rathdowney, Co Laois, but they left Ireland for the US in 1956. Nowadays, she holds weekly liturgies, including Mass, at the Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community in Sarasota, Florida.

In 2007, she and fellow women priests were excommunicated by Pope Benedict. He decreed that anyone “who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive a sacred order” was automatically excommunicated. However, this decree has been rejected by the ARCWP.

In North America, there were about 250 Catholic women priests and 11 women bishops, Bishop Meehan said. Their ordinations were valid “because of our apostolic succession within the Roman Catholic Church”, she said.

Ordain

“The principal consecrating Roman Catholic male bishop who ordained our first women bishops is a bishop with apostolic succession within the Roman Catholic Church in communion with the pope. Therefore, our bishops validly ordain deacons, priests and bishops,” said Bishop Meehan.

As well as in the US and Canada, the ARCWP has members in Latin America and, increasingly, in the rest of the world.

They seek equality for women in the church at all levels, including at decision-making and ordination levels, and prepare and ordain qualified women (and men) to serve as Catholic priests.

Theirs is “a renewal movement” within the church which aims at “full equality for all within” as “a matter of justice and faithfulness to the Gospel”, she said.

She and other members of her delegation are back in Ireland for August and hope to encourage other women towards ordination while here.

They would also “love a dialogue with the bishops” in Ireland and believe there is “a new spirit in the church” since the election of Pope Francis in 2013. They feel “in harmony with a lot of what Pope Francis is saying”.

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AND NOT TO FORGET THE "STRANGE GOINGS ON" IN ARMAGH

THE PRIESTS OF GOOD OUL ARMAGH

(Sung to the tune of "The Boys From The County Armagh"

There's one quare diocese in Ireland,

With clergy so gay and so lewd;

Where Grindr has lavished its bounty,

It's an Eden for those looking screwed.

I love Saint Patrick's cathedral,

Where Rory did broadcast his pubes;

And it bears in the heart of its bosom,

Amy Martin's attachment to boobs.

It's our own Irish see,

Once home to Tomas O Fee;

And though it often shocks us,

It also provides us with glee.

So though we often chuckle,

'bout Phonsie and Shirley Bassey,

My heart is at home in Ard Mhaca,

With McCamley and lovely Keady.

I've travelled each part of the county,

Dungannon and Ryan so blue;

Castle Dawson where Thomas developed,

His love for lace and and the Twirl;

Pomeroy with its famous computer,

Magherafelt with the priest's little girl.

And where are the guys that can pull  them,

Like the priests of good old Armagh.

It's our own Irish see..........

IS PAT ANTI CATHOLIC?

In response to every single Blog, I write I get called "anti-Catholic" by a predictable number of comment makers - many of whom are obviously priests - and members of the Catholic Clerical Club. 

I am tired saying that I am not "anti-Catholic" but rather I am anti the widespread corruption that has invaded the Roman Catholic Institution. 

MY ORDINATION PIC - PENETCOST SUNDAY 1976

I have wanted to be a Catholic priest since I was 4 years old. This year I am 41 years a Catholic priest and I love being a priest today more than I did when I started out.

For me being a priest is about TWO BASIC THINGS - 1. Having a close relationship with God through prayer and reflection and 2. Being available to serve God's People 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Of course being a priest is rooted in being a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - and trying to live, as best you can, as Christ lived.

When I look at the life and teachings of Jesus I see two things:

1. The Jesus who came to comfort the disturbed.

2. The Jesus who came to disturb the comfortable.

Jesus was a HEALER and also a REVOLUTIONARY. 

He said himself:

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:34).

Every disciple of the Lord is called upon to be a healer and a revolutionary - to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

And for me, that involves working towards the much-needed revolution in the Roman Catholic Institution which has wandered very far away from Christ and his teachings.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT CATHOLICISM:

I am A Catholic Christian and I am not and do not want to be a "Protestant" or any other kind of Christian.

The things I love about the Catholic tradition are:

1. The strong view of God as Trinity.

2. The Bible (properly interpreted - not literally interpreted) - especially the New Testament.

3. The Seven Sacraments.

4. The original and good theology of priesthood as service.

5. The centrality of the Eucharist and the belief that Jesus Christ is truly present.

6. The (rational) writings of the Church Fathers.

7. Liturgical ceremony and symbolism.

8. The recognition of the role Mary played in Redemption - but without making her a "goddess". 

9. The example and writings of many of the saints.

10. The priest's Breviary.

There are many others.

WHAT I DISLIKE ABOUT INSTITUTIONAL ROMAN CATHOLICISM:

1. The development of the Hierarchy into middle ages monarchism.

2. The dysfunctional-ism of Vatican centralism.

3. The development of the male, patriarchal Clerical Club.

4. The almost universal exclusion of women.

5. The dysfunctional and harmful Roman Catholic view of human sexuality.

6. Compulsory celibacy for clergy.

7. The horrible things done in Roman Catholic institutional history.

8. The vastness of Vatican and church wealth.

9. The alignment of the RC Institution with the establishment and with States.

10. The RC brainwashing that has ruined the lives of countless of millions.

11. The absolute arrogance of the current Hierarchy.

12. The hypocrisy in the Church and priesthood about sex with bishops and priests living promiscuous sex lives while demanding chastity of all others.

13. The vile sexual and other abuse of children, women, and men.

14. The systematic cover up of all this abuse. 

15. The widespread dysfunction in seminaries perpetrated by staff and seminarians.

There are many others.

Quite simply, my point is this:

I am NOT anti-Catholic.

I AM anti Catholic abuse and corruption.

I write this today to RESTATE my position.

I know I will be attacked by "MY MOTHER RIGHT OR WRONG" Catholics.

And those most in the attack will be those among the clergy who want to preserve the Clerical Club and those who want to inhabit the dark places they inhabit inside and outside of the seminaries.

It's really a battle between TRUTH and LIES

And between REFORM and THE STATUS QUO.

SINEAD O'CONNOR - RECENT VIDEO

Sinead O'Conor's latest video from a motel in New Jersey USA which she published on her Facebook page has made world news and has been watched by many millions of people.

Some large newspapers have praised her for highlighting the problems and stigma around mental illness.

I found the video disturbing and my heart went out to Sinead.

In spite of what many believe I have never met Sinead O'Connor and had absolutely nothing to do with her ordination as a Catholic priest in Lourdes many years ago.

Around that time I did speak to her by telephone and we had very interesting conversations.

I had no problem with Sinead being ordained a priest if her motives were "pure" which I'm sure they were.

But I do think that EVERYONE who wants to be a priest needs to spend a serious amount of time in preparation for ordination. 

That preparation involves spiritual, personal, psychological, intellectual and psychic formation.

It was only when watching the above video that I learned that Sinead suffers, as she said, from THREE mental health issues. She did not tell us what exactly their nature.

Any person who has truly lived life will have experienced mental health challenges at various times.

Thank God I have never suffered from depression - but I have in the past suffered from anxiety and panic attacks - and these were frightening moments for me.

But I always believed in the power of both TALKING and CRYING as part of managing one's mental health life and I have talked to many people about my own challenges and I have often cried. 

In the late 1980's I made a very firm decision to enter psychotherapy as a client. This time coincided with my dismissal from the Catholic Church by Cahal Daly.

I managed to do great work with one psychotherapist and through that work, I explored many unexplored areas of my life and that work was very, very healing.

I also went to England to work, as a client, with the famous Primal Therapy psychiatrist Dr. Frank Lake. 

DR. FRANK LAKE

The result of all this was that I resolved many issues and came to a place of great self-acceptance, great peace of mind and the freedom to be - both in private and in public, MY REAL SELF.

I have never looked back thank God and I am so grateful that I had the wisdom to engage in this work and the opportunity to see it through. 

In fact, through all of this, I came to realize what the FREEDOM OF A SON OF GOD really means. 

I have a peace of mind and contentment today - and for many years now - that is a great blessing. But this blessing only comes through suffering, pain, perseverance and hard work.

CAN SINEAD BE "CURED"?

I'm not so sure that "cure" is the right word when talking about these issues.

Life is tough and very unpredictable and I think it is far better to think about GOOD LIFE MANAGEMENT than it is to talk about "cure". 

If Sinead asked me to advise her what would I advise?  I think I might advise the following:

1. Find a good psychiatrist/psychotherapist and stick with them especially at those painful times you want to run away from them and appoint a new one.

2. Do not be afraid to take medication as a temporary crutch if you are advised to take it. In fact, some mental health issues require life long and well-managed medication.

3. Make a decision to trust in God / A Higher Power - and stick with that decision especially when you FEEL that God is not there or does not really care.

4. When you do not feel "normal" make yourself behave "normal" and you will begin to feel "normal".

5. Force yourself to go out - shopping, walking, exercising, going for a coffee, and you will feel the better for it.

6. Join a gym and exhaust yourself physically. Physical exhaustion and exercise have a calming effect on the mind. A lot of mental thunder and lightening can find an earth in physical exercise and exhaustion. 

7. Finally throw yourself at the feet of God and cling on there until the storm passes. 

I think that the 12 Steps of AA offer a good spiritual framework for tackling any addiction or any issue:

1. We admitted we were powerless over xxxxxxxx - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to OTHERS and to practice these principles in all our affairs.