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blocky · (This post was last modified: 09-19-2009 07:45 AM by Corry.)

I didn't know where else to put this, as I could see there was no such thread! Nixweiss

Anyway, today I found Slovakian, I think, interview, talking about Medjugorje again! I translated it on Google for you, but it's not so good, but anyway here it is:
http://translate.google.rs/translate?hl=...Fkelly.htm

**Glen** · 06-30-2009, 02:33 PM

It has no date on it, but I think it's from 2003.

blocky · 06-30-2009, 02:43 PM

I agree @Glen, it's quite obvious cuz he tells about father's death as of 'last year' and also mentions his solo album as new....

blocky · (This post was last modified: 07-29-2009 02:51 PM by blocky.)

Another one from kath.net:
KATH.NET: Paddy, you have professed the Catholic faith for some time, when did you first come to it and what was the reason? PADDY: My family was always Catholic. As a young man, my father was with the Jesuits for four years. My mother was also very devout, but more for herself, rather hidden. Unfortunately, in the last ten years, through all our successes and the whole frenzy, different values became more important. We were simply diverted from the essential. I had a considerable personal crisis almost three years ago. I had separated from my girlfriend at that time and had also finally begun to process the death of my mother. In any case, I began reading the Bible, and I even bought the Koran. I also had an acquaintance who was well-versed in Buddhism. I was simply on a search. The standard questions were then: Where do I come from? What am I doing here? Where do I go? I was searching for answers. One night I saw a documentary on television about a place of pilgrimage called Lourdes. I found this to be in character and I felt magnetically drawn there. Two or three days later I drove with two of my sisters to Lourdes and spent four days there. We took part in the entire program there. I bought a rosary and began to pray and had some deep experiences there. For me our Blessed Mother Mary implanted a seed in my soul, and with the help of prayer and the sacraments, my faith has grown bit by bit. Then later I drove two or three times to France and Austria to different monasteries, in order to strengthen my knowledge. Today I know that life without God is like a guitar without a case: First it gets a scratch, then still another break, and sooner or later the guitar gets broken (the soul). God has become the center of my life and everything else is secondary. It took a while before I learned to know Our Lord Jesus. It was very strong with Mary and she then led me to Him. For the song "Thanking Blessed Mary," I had tried for almost four months to write the lyrics, and only after I came to know Our Lord was I able to write the last verse.

KATH.NET: How do you live the faith in everyday life? PADDY: I try to live the messages from Medjugorje, that means: holy Mass, reading the Bible, the rosary, monthly confession, and fasting twice a week.

KATH.NET: How did you actually come to Medjugorje and how important was this for your faith life? PADDY: In the summer of 2000, I was with my brother and sister, Jimmy and Barby, on a pilgrimage. We first went to southern France and were then invited by three different people to come to Medjugorje. We were at the youth festival for three or four days and spent one afternoon with Father Jozo Zovko and he asked us to come back to Medjugorje with the rest of our family. We thought of ourselves as a type of bridge for the others. And in such a way the reference came to Medjugorje. In the autumn then my father was again with Jimmy in Medjugorje, and we drove down in March with the entire family and later to the youth festival at the beginning of August.

KATH.NET: In 2000, you were also at the World Youth Day in Rome. Was it the first time you attended a World Youth Day? PADDY: We were already at the European youth meeting in Loretto in 1995. We sang there for the Pope and many young people. In 2000, Jimmy and I went to Rome as private pilgrims.

KATH.NET: What does the Pope mean to you? What effect does he have on you? PADDY: To me John Paul II is like the star which led the three kings to Bethlehem, and in the past, the stars guided ships, so that they didn't get off course on their trips. We met him briefly in 1995 in Loretto. The radiant emittance from him is amazing. You feel such a strong presence of the Holy Spirit, if you see him closely. In Lourdes I had conversion and in Rome, at the World Youth Day at Tor Vergata, I put my life in God's hands. I kneeled and said only: "Totus tuus" completely yours). I took a "liap of faith," and trusted my life to our Lord. In the past I didn't understand why someone should say "yes" to God. Today I understand it better. Mother Teresa said that holiness depends on our will and on the grace of God. In Rome I tried to give a "yes" without conditions. That is simply fantastic. Now I try this daily, I try--as Mother Teresa says--24 hours a day "to live with Jesus, for Jesus and to Jesus." I am not a theologian nor a philosopher, however in the Bible it says: "You will know the tree by its fruits" (LK 6.44) and so far the fruits which I see in myself are very positive. Heaven is my destination, the sacraments and prayer are the fuel and the best way to get there is if God is steering the wheel.

KATHNET: Some months ago, you gave a concert in Linz (Austria) and engaged in the "Action Eva" from Youth For Life against abortion. Why did you do that? What does abortion mean to you? PADDY: I believe me abortion is the largest crime that mankind is comitting today. The problem is that it's legal and that today we mistake "legal" with "good." If there are wars or other disasters where many people die, the whole world reports about it, but you see or hear almost nothing about the millions of unborn children who are killed annually in the cruelest way. That is madness.

KATH.NET: Now you profess your faith very openly. What is your message for the fans, those who don't believe and who think that perhaps you are nuts or going crazy? PADDY: For me it is similar to falling in love. One would like to tell everyone everything at once. But faith is something so very intimate. Just as you wouldn't talk with everyone about sexuality. Therefore, it's often hard to speak about without feeling that your intimacy has been penetrated too much. I find it easier to sing about. I see how a generation hungers after what I have found. That is God, that is truth, that is love. Everything makes sense when you discover this. It's like a treasure that I've found. But I'm only fully content if I can share this treasure with others.

KATH.NET: What can you say to someone who is by your confession on the search for God? PADDY: I recommend reading the Bible and prayer to begin with, and then to go to Medjugorje. If someone doesn't have the cash now to drive to Medjugorje, they can also begin at home with prayer. In the Bible and in prayer you will find all the answers to questions in life, maybe not always what you wish, but what is best. God knows what we need. We must only open ourselves and ask that His will be done. Mother Teresa said: "Every person is created out of love, to love and to be loved." "God is love." (1 JOH 4.16).

http://www.kathtube.com/player.php?id=5380
Here is the interview in English:

kathtube: Well, I’m incredibly lucky now and many people will be envious now. Next to me, there is sittig Brother John Paul Mary, right? (he wanted to know, whether to pronounce it French or English, nothing special) But this is not yet the sensation. The sensation is the fact, who he was before: He was the heart throb of many young people, especially many young girls. But he was lead to a different way. Next to me there is sitting a monk, who has chosen a way which is perhaps not so usual for someone who was a big star in show business and now he is a monk in a grey dress. Dear Paddy Kelly, the whole world knows you with this name. How did you come to become a monk?

Paddy Kelly: Since I was a child, I had thought that I would marry, just like my father and have a family. And at first, music was the centre of my life, but as I already said yesterday, there was a moment of my life, when I was approximately 20 years old when we were on the top of our success, so to speak, when I felt a deep emptiness inside. I had everything, the most people dream of – a huge amount of money, we were living in a big castle, we had so much success. So I could have anything, I wanted. But all this didn’t make me happy. Quite the reverse: it caused a big emptiness which no one was able to fill. Additionally, I had broken up with my girlfriend and I noticed that all my ideals of love were destroyed. Then there was something like a depression, an identity crisis. I didn’t really know who I actually was. “Who am I? Am I a star? Am I an artist? Am I really the one, whom I think I am or of whom others think, I am ?"(oh, Lord, was that understandable???) And so I began to search for the truth. During this time of suffering and darkness I found myself asking really deep questions for the first time: “What is the sense of life if this all does not satisfy me?” I didn’t even enjoy the music anymore. “What is the sense of all that, why are we existing? Where do I come from, and where do I go? Do I have a soul? Do I have something which will continue to live after one’s death? And if so, where does it go to?” In my family, everyone was baptized and we were all educated as Catholics. But because of the success and the travelling we didn’t practice our faith anymore. And God was always there with us but we were not always with him.

kathtube: You didn’t notice him, you didn’t hear him…

Paddy Kelly: That’s right. We considered other things more important than Him when we should have seen him as the most important thing. And this search for truth turned into a life of prayer after I was in Lourdes. And I started to read the Bible every day and I also genned up on other religions but Jesus as a person appealed me. It was as if he hadn’t been someone from the past, he was someone who was talking to me that very moment. And the things he did and said, according to those texts, somehow echoed in my heart. So step by step I began to pray, after I had returned from Lourdes in 1999. And then I made my first confession for many years and this really relieved me. I thought, well this is the beginning of a new life.

kathtube: And this new life lead you to give up everything you had and now you are sitting here in your grey dress. And now I wonder, why you chose particularly this order? There are so many orders, why this one?

Paddy Kelly: Well, I took a look at many orders, for example in India at the one of Mother Theresa. I also knew some Benedictines and Franciscans from the USA , from the Bronx. But joining the order of St. John was really God’s sake. I hadn’t understood it until I had joined them. I didn’t really know, why but I noticed their joy. They had answers to my questions and there’ a ‘fire’ burning. It’s not only some kind of ‘life-style’. I knew friars who were millionaires and they left everything behind in order to follow Jesus. And they just had this youth, joy and fire which attracted me and I felt together with them at home. And later I discovered the spirit of St. John.

kathtube: Yes, it’s very interesting that especially these new order attract so many young people although they are much more strict than older orders. And it’s funny, and I like it very much that following God, it is always an adventure. You don’t always know where it will lead you. But now I’ll ask a question which many people are interested in: What about your music, now that you’re a monk?

Paddy Kelly: I’ve written many songs during the past four years, since I joint the monastery and music is still my hobby. But now my songs have turned into prayers. I already started writing religious songs at the time of my conversion. But now, music has become a way of addressing to God. I don’t appear in public. This was the first time, I did that. But God willing, I don’t rule out that this may play a role in my calling in the future.

kathtube: I can imagine that quite well. If God leads someone to be such a famous person in music I don’t believe that He suddenly wants something completely different. I think that it was a kind of preparation. And I can imagine that the charisma of music can be a missionary charisma.

Paddy Kelly: Well, I think, if you take a look at the young people these days, you can see that they all walk around with iPods on them. And if you want to spread His word, then you’ll have to get onto the iPods. And if music is something to tell them the word of God in a way which they are used to and which they like, why not?

kathtube: Then the interviewer invites Paddy to come to Linz to play on another youth festival that he wants to be organized by the monks of St. John.

Paddy Kelly: I’m ready for anything as long as it is God’s sake.

Streetlife · 07-30-2009, 11:44 AM

Paddy Kelly: Well, I think, if you take a look at the young people these days, you can see that they all walk around with iPods on them. And if you want to spread His word, then you’ll have to get onto the iPods. And if music is something to tell them the word of God in a way which they are used to and which they like, why not?

kathtube: Then the interviewer invites Paddy to come to Linz to play on another youth festival that he wants to be organized by the monks of St. John.

Paddy Kelly: I’m ready for anything as long as it is God’s sake.

I think Paddy said all in these sentences!!!!!!!! With his music about faith and God he's trying to "reach" people's hearts and that's so simple to all the people who believe ( I mean all, not only Christians).

blocky · (This post was last modified: 07-30-2009 05:14 PM by blocky.)

Well I believe in God and honestly I find it spooky to hear: 'Get onto iPods, spread his word'! I am very proud that I started believing in God without having my brain washed out!

**Anastazija** · 07-30-2009, 07:54 PM

@blocky: I don't see what is spooky abouot it..."get in to their iPods" I see only as a methaphore for making religious music that will be close to young people...I'm religious and listen to many religious artists (croatian and foreign) and have that music on my mp3 player and don't consider myself being brainwashed because of that... Nixweiss

(hope I haven't missinterpreted sth you said)

Streetlife · 07-31-2009, 03:42 PM

Dear Anastazija, I completely agree with you Luxhello

guste · 03-07-2010, 10:29 PM

i also found God through religious music. as for me, i think that its always touching to hear songs for God. it makes faith so reall i think, cause you can not lie if you love God and want to worship Him. and that is all religiuos music is about.

blocky · 03-12-2010, 06:15 PM

@youngone

You are the last person in this world I would expect to call me or anything I said weird! finger

Please, I said my opinion and you girls said yours and that's fine. But you, @youngone, should try to be nicer and act more like a human and not review and revise me being Christian or not being Christian enough!

What you said in your comment is everything but Christian to me!

Who gave you the right to say something like that to me?! Do you know me and if I am Christian enough for your standards?! I mean, your comment is strange... and rediculous!

I hope you realize that in whole my post you question something that is so personal and private that it just makes me sick what you said!

As for religious music - if anyone of you is so interested (and I am sure that you youngone are) - yes, I like it too! Since you are so interested,a s you show you are, I spent my childhood, more precisely 8 years singing in church choir so I don't have anything against religious music! But I do dislike Paddy's words! Which I know is - oh, so very tough for you Stasha! badly

And I spoke my mind about it, which the members above have quite respected so don't get me misunderstood! yes

I think music is fine when it reflects your love for God, but I still don't find it powerful enough to actually make you start loving God!

Watch your words @youngone - as far as I am allowed to notice, I wasn't the only member here who was very tolerant to all kinds of posts you made concerning Paddy recently, so please - try and be tolerant towards me, especially when the thing is about something so private and unknown to you as my faith.

**babausis** · 03-12-2010, 08:05 PM

@youngone - what if a person never felt "a hint of His glory"... Then what? Smile

Then I think loads of people out there, who are "proud" as you say...

The Grumpy Paddy · (This post was last modified: 03-13-2010 08:28 AM by The Grumpy Paddy.)

So, I find his arguments very convincing, because almost every day an mp3 player or an ipod has. Why not use these things as a "mouthpiece of God"!? If we look back now, 10 or 20 years, there was only TV, radio and the church. Today we live in a world where we all can agree on so many different and communicate. And the majority of the population uses it too! Look us here! That's crazy what we now can do everything. Smile

And I do not think that you now youngone so "personally" to attack, Jelena. So let's here no public squabbles unsubscribe. A does not fit the theme and B can be also regulated by the PM. Pray

blocky · 03-13-2010, 12:01 PM

@TheGrumpyPaddy

First of all - welcome for the very first time that you post anything here!

Second - as a creator of this thread I know the best, better than you, what its purpose is!

You are really under no obligation to spread peace amongst us or to help us make up, or what ever it is that you are trying!

I have a full right as a human being to be hurt by someone's words and to react back with the same measure if needed! And just for your personal information, I wasn't discussing the matter of Ipods at all anymore, but one very personal matter!!!

Since you are so convinced this thread is not about what we posted above, than why do you make the conversation further? As I see above, you have also replied to something that you claim we are senselessly 'fighting' about!

I cannot pour common sense adn brain into someone's head, although I would really like to. Due to that, I am perfectly aware that some tasteless comments and words are not obvious to someone else, as they are to me.

I am very sorry if I misunderstood some of your words due to your English! Pray

Again it seems to me, that I am the only one here who cannot make an honest and sincere comment about something, in this case as usually Paddy, just because my opinion is very different and obviously too honest!
Opinions are always different, but none of them is mopre or less significant. And as for me and @youngone, my comment and her comment towards me weren't at all a matter of opinions but a matter of personal insult!!!

I had a full respect to members above who have claimed that they do find importance in religious music (which I still find I know more about than the very, very few above; I don't have to explain to who do I refer) and yes - as for that, I can't find myself and my opinion not respected enough!

But anyway, maybe you should all start talking more about the interviews and keep some opinions to yourself, in order not to provoke the other one's that you might dislike and show that off quite intensively! Well, I guess that's a common rule!

Lullenito · (03-13-2010)

(03-12-2010 04:51 PM)youngone Wrote:
(07-30-2009 04:26 PM)blocky Wrote: Well I believe in God and honestly I find it spooky to hear: 'Get onto iPods, spread his word'! I am very proud that I started believing in God without having my brain washed out!

What a very strange comment...and all have come short of the glory of God...if you have ever really felt even a hint of His glory, you wouldn't be so proud.

I think you would be thankful rather than proud.

Are you serious Youngone...The only strange comment I see here is from you... Let people have their opinions.

I also believe that becomong a believer should be much deeper than doing this because you like some artist/music... But I'm not here to judge. I just say how I see it.

youngone · (This post was last modified: 05-25-2010 03:23 AM by youngone.)

(03-12-2010 08:05 PM)babausis Wrote: @youngone - what if a person never felt "a hint of His glory"... Then what? Then I think loads of people out there, who are "proud" as you say...

Then that is sad...and I haven't been on the forum in quite a while so I hadn't seen what you all had written. I just really don't think Brother John Paul Mary wants to brainwash anyone.... Nixweiss

Well..I agree with Brother John Paul Mary that God should be first in one's life, and I have been trying to work on that. That is one reason that I haven't been on the forum.... Angel

And...Why do you all attack me all the time?!

Oh forget it; but what Brother John Paul Mary has spoken of the Brothers of St. John is very true; they have much joy.

(03-13-2010 08:15 AM)The Grumpy Paddy Wrote: So, I find his arguments very convincing, because almost every day an mp3 player or an ipod has. Why not use these things as a "mouthpiece of God"!? If we look back now, 10 or 20 years, there was only TV, radio and the church. Today we live in a world where we all can agree on so many different and communicate. And the majority of the population uses it too! Look us here! That's crazy what we now can do everything.

And I do not think that you now youngone so "personally" to attack, Jelena. So let's here no public squabbles unsubscribe. A does not fit the theme and B can be also regulated by the PM.

Why do you all attack me all the time?!

Oh forget it; but what Brother John Paul Mary has spoken of the Brothers of St. John is very true; they have much joy.

(03-13-2010 03:23 PM)Lullenito Wrote:
(03-12-2010 04:51 PM)youngone Wrote:
(07-30-2009 04:26 PM)blocky Wrote: Well I believe in God and honestly I find it spooky to hear: 'Get onto iPods, spread his word'! I am very proud that I started believing in God without having my brain washed out!

What a very strange comment...and all have come short of the glory of God...if you have ever really felt even a hint of His glory, you wouldn't be so proud.

I think you would be thankful rather than proud.

Are you serious Youngone...The only strange comment I see here is from you... Let people have their opinions.

I also believe that becomong a believer should be much deeper than doing this because you like some artist/music... But I'm not here to judge. I just say how I see it.

Uh...and I think God reaches people in multiple ways; music can be one of them, if the person is really listening to the words. God can touch someone through music.

Blocky, if I have offended you, I apologize. That was not my intent, but it came across to me as if you hadn't considered the other side of things...that being that missionaries use many forms to reach people and to help their faith grow. Perhaps for some people wishing to reach God, music is the best way they know; others paint, and others preach...still others might tell stories. We all have our own talents. I am still trying to discover my own, personally.

And I did not claim to know ANYTHING about your faith; I don't know what you believe nor was I asking. I only know how I interpreted your post and I too am a fallen creature, a human being so we all make mistakes; we all offend, and we all stumble.

The only thing one can do is ask for forgiveness and hope it is given, but even forgiveness cannot be forced.

(03-13-2010 12:01 PM)blocky Wrote: @TheGrumpyPaddy

I personally never intended to attack your faith, and I don't even know what you believe....??

And Blocky, if I have made a mistake, it is because I am fallen and still learning as a Christian and yes, I am blessed enough to be given some direction from one of the Brothers of St. John! I never even thought I would know a religious Brother, but I have always been attracted to the Catholic faith, and life events led me there..but I am glad life led me there! hurray

youngone · (This post was last modified: 05-30-2010 03:24 AM by youngone.)

Aw...COME ON!!!!!!!!!!! Will everyone stop being angry with me now?! crying