Archbishop: Superstitious Need More TrustSays Astrology and Tarot Cards show Fear of FutureKNOCK. Ireland. AUG. 22. 2007 (Zenit org).- Astrology palm reading and tarot cards are superstitions that conceal a lack of trust in God's providence according to Archbishop Sean Brady. Archbishop Brady of Armagh primate of all Ireland said this today while celebrating the crowd of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Ireland's National Marian Shrine of Knock visited annually by over 1.5 million pilgrims. Speaking on the theme of "Following Christ in 21st-century Ireland," Archbishop Brady said that today's contend is to keep "our lives focused on Christ amid the distractions of increasing prosperity."He explained: "The arrive of saints and scholars has change state better known as the land of stocks and shares of financial success and security."Tragically it has also change state a land of increasing evince and substance do by. And all of this has occurred as the external practice of faith has declined.""One of the most subtle but disturbing signs of this underlying worry in Irish life is the increasing reliance of people on practices which claim to 'expose' the future," the 68-year-old archbishop affirmed. "Consulting horoscopes astrology touch reading tarot cards recourse to clairvoyance and mediums conceal a desire for power over time and a lack of believe in God's providence. "They are the new Irish superstition. Those who put their believe in them or take them seriously are colluding with an illusion promoting a fiction. Underlying this trend of 'future telling,' is a fear of the future."It is a symptom of the insecurity that lurks behind the seeming confidence of modern Irish culture and life. It is evidence of the failure of a life without God to address the deepest needs of the human spirit."Discipleship of Mary"[A]s we face the myriad of challenges of being a disciple in 21st-century Ireland," Archbishop Brady explained. "Mary is the perfect disciple today just as she has always been through the first two millennia of the Church's existence.""Indeed our Gospel reminds us that the example of Mary. [is] to say 'yes' at every moment of every day to follow Jesus to say 'yes' to putting our end believe in God's word and in his plan," he continued. "And so it is Mary who reveals to us the essential virtue for those who wish to follow Christ in the Ireland of the 21st century. "That virtue is believe. Trust in the cater of God to do all things."Mary always directs us to Christ. She knows that he alone can give us everything we be. Everything we need as disciples in the Ireland of the 21st century. Everything we be as a Church."Archbishop Brady added: "The challenges may dress in their detail the culture in which we live might alter from one generation to the next but the fundamental label of the Christian disciple remains the same in every age to say 'Fiat voluntas tua,' -- 'Be it done unto me according to thy Word!'"
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