A Candle has been lit in remembrance of Israel and Gaza

A Candle has been lit by Lumiere in remembrance of Israel and Gaza. Our thoughts are with all who are suffering, for all who have lost their lives; for their families, colleagues and friends.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10994385/Israel-Gaza-conflict-Obama-and-Pope-call-for-peace-as-child-death-toll-rises.html

Mother and Child; Good Health Lesson 24

MOTHER AND CHILD; GOOD HEALTH LESSON 24
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD

HEALTHY CHILD
A healthy child grows steadily and well. During the first years of the child's life it is essential to protect a child's health by giving enough nutritious food, by following the guidelines of cleanliness, and by monitoring the child's progress at your local Health Clinic.

It is important that your child be regularly checked by your Doctor, Clinic Nurse and Dentist as needed. Protective Vaccinations are needed by your child to prevent diseases. 

VACCINATIONS
Vaccinations protect children against many of the most dangerous diseases of childhood. These vaccinations should be given while the child is healthy. Vaccinations should be given as advised by your Doctor.
At Birth BCG tuberculosis vaccine is due
[BCG stands for Bacille Calmette-Guerin (TB - Tuberculosis Vaccine)] 

At 2 months of age, the 6 in 1 + PCV Vaccination is due
[6 in 1 means - Diphtheria, Haemophilus influenza B (Hib), Hepatitis B, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Polio and Tetanus vaccine]
[PCV means Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine]

At 4 months of age, the 6 in 1 and Men C is due
Men C means Meningococcal C vaccine]

At 6 months of age, the 6 in 1, PCV and Men C is due

At 12 months of age, the MMR and PCV is due
[MMR stands for Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine]

At 13 months of age, the Men C and Hib is due

Parents should always have a record of their children's vaccinations so that they can be checked from time to time. 

This is often also called the Immunization Passport

BCG Vaccine PARENT INFORMATION LEAFLET
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/Downloads/Translations/PDFFile_14027_en.pdf

Recommended Immunization Schedule for Childhood Immunization Schedule 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/Downloads/NewmaterialsApril2011/PDFFile_16756_en.pdf 

Childhood Immunizations 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/ChildhoodImmunisation/ 

Introduction to Childhood Immunizations 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/ChildhoodImmunisation/IntroductiontoChildhoodImmunisations/ 

Primary Immunization Schedule 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/ChildhoodImmunisation/PrimaryImmunisationSchedule/ 

Common Questions 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/ChildhoodImmunisation/YourQuestionsAnswered/ 

Before Immunization 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/ChildhoodImmunisation/YourQuestionsAnswered/BeforeVaccination/ 

Advice after Immunization 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/ChildhoodImmunisation/YourQuestionsAnswered/AfterVaccination/ 

Vaccine Preventable Diseases 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/ChildhoodImmunisation/VaccinePreventableDiseases/ 

Schools Immunisation Program
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/SchoolProgramme/ 

Adult Immunisation Program 
http://www.immunisation.ie/en/AdultImmunisation/ 

With thanks to www.Immunisation.ie 
*Disclaimer; Please note that the information on this Health Post is not meant to replace your Doctor or Health Professional care
 

Dedicated Doctors Inspire Lumiere

LUMIERE CHARITY HAS HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF LIAISING OVER THE YEARS WITH DEDICATED DOCTORS.
Years ago one such Doctor spoke to us about her definition of her work; and the luminous strength of her words have remained with me to this day.

Desperate poverty
She was working in an area marked by desperate poverty and a struggle for survival for the local people.
This is how this dignified lady saw her work among the poor and vulnerable:

The work of a Doctor in charity is to help people in critical conditions from a very low socio-economic situation.
Usually their poverty means much stress in their daily lives.
The Doctor's program is to relieve the immediate emergencies in health care in the short term.
As long term program, it is most important for the families to receive education and social support.
Some people experience prejudices which may discriminate against lower socio-economic groups.
This can facilitate the keeping of these groups in extreme poverty. 
Men, women and children have the right to receive medication attention or education.

Baby needed surgery
Doctors doing pro-deo charity work experience many grievous situations.
Babies, lying on rags on the sidewalk, being tended by their siblings.
A baby, wrapped in the largest rag for warmth, being brought to the Doctor by her young sister because something is wrong with the baby. 
The baby found to have malformation of the anus, with severe infection and complicated by malnutrition. 
 Urgent surgery needed, which her family - eking out a living on the streets - could never afford.
Surgeons - those men and women with special gift to save lives by complicated surgical procedures - will realise that the baby needs operations. 
The little one's malnutrition would make the surgery very high risk
.
The pro-deo Charity Doctor would thus create a nutrion plan to ensure the baby receives a specialised diet and medical care free of cost. 
S/he would educate the family and ensure hygienic care (very difficult for the children living on the streets in the company of pigs, dogs and garbage).
After intense care and supervision by the Doctor, surgery is undertaken. 
Difficulties can be experienced in accessing the needed care; the dedicated Doctor in charity undertakes this task.

Doctor in charity
The Doctor in charity ensures that the poor, the vulnerable, the socially marginalised are enabled to receive medicine, food, health care and education, as basic conditions of Human Rights.
Doctors rent houses as places to protect children abandoned on the street, where necessary medical care can be received free of cost.
The luminous Doctor who inspired me when I first started Lumiere told me she called these houses, "Intermediate places, between the antihygienic conditions of the street, 
and the hospital for patients in critical health conditions."

Every day the number of children and disadvantaged forced to struggle for survival on the streets increase. In the spirit of Lumiere, is there anything you can do to help?

If you are a Doctor, perhaps Divine Providence has led you to read these words.

Why not start a pro-deo project of assistance of your own?

The Inspirational Doctor 
http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2012/02/inspirational-doctor.html

People in Desperation
http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2014/06/lumiere-charity-people-in-desperation.html

Good Health
http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2014/06/women-hysterectomy-and-cervical.html

Undocumented Children - Difficulties of Paperless Status

THE JOY IN THE CHARITY was that a young girl was rescued from the street, and from being trafficked. Over the years she did exceptionally well at school, her fees for care and education being paid for by a generous benefactor. Not only did she get through her education, she graduated from post-school training cum laude and got a job. 

Promotion
Then this intrepid little lady received a promotion which would entail travel to another country. 
Thereafter came the unbelievable disappointment; she could not accept the promotion as she could not travel. 
The reason why she could not travel was that she cannot be issued a passport. 
The reason why she cannot be issued a passport is because she does not have a birth certificate. 
In effect, she - this little lady with super sized talents, ability and chutzpah - is a non-person. 
Except that there she was, as large as life, in front of me. Very obviously, not a non-person at all.

Life dealt her shattering blows; she overcame every one of them. 
Yet, the very reasonable need to keep a responsible check on the movement of people has defeated her rise upwards from the streets of her youth.
She has not been trafficked and constrained by life circumstances to earn her living in the hazardous environs of self-sale with the financial proceeds going to others. 
She avoided HIV, brutality, unplanned pregnancy that sometimes come with unplanned and trafficked self-sale.
But she has been locked by her circumstances from the joy of personal fulfilment and development in career and life that many of us have always taken for granted.

As the daughter of parents who insisted on equal and the best education they could afford for both sons and daughters, the right to vote, the right to drive and the right to travel for all their children, I took these facts for granted. As my right. As the way the world is.
I now know that I am among the world's deepest privileged.
Ability to travel, to accept the opportunities that life brings, is the greatest freedom any woman or man can have.
It is the glorious principle of true democracy in action.

Documentation is lacking
Lumiere Charity has seen great strides in orphans and children being rescued from the streets, being well educated and making new lives for themselves. 
However, once the opportunity of natural movement and promotion beckons, the difficulty arises that birth dates are not registered; parents are not known; documentation is lacking. 
Health issues arise; admission to medical treatment naturally and reasonably requires a date of birth. Any application for a pension or social assistance which a citizen is entitled to often requires documentation; possibly a birth certificate; passport number; parents' names and surnames.

The difficulty in providing relevant and reliable documentation for vulnerable children and disadvantaged is not only one facing those working on the front lines of Charity; it is a worldwide phenomenon.
- For orphans
- For displaced persons
- For refugees from war
- For rescued child soldiers
- For children and mature adults rescued from trafficking
- For orphans whose parents emigrated illegally across borders and then died from their HIV status, leaving their little ones stateless persons.

Perhaps Divine Providence has led you to read these words. 

In the spirit of Lumiere, can anything be done to help?

http://www.ibtimes.com/speaker-boehner-backs-immigration-reform-bill-legalizing-children-1349965

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishops-immigration-book-praised-for-focus-on-family-unity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29&utm_term=daily+news

A lit Candle has been burning in remembrance of all who have lost their lives in Malaysia Aircraft MH17

Lumiere Charity remembers all who have lost their lives in the tragedy of the Malaysia Aircraft MH 17. 

Our thoughts are with all those who have lost their lives, 

and with their families.

A lit candle has been burning in remembrance 

for those who have lost their lives.

Time of Silence In Remembrance of Lt Gordon Matthew Ambelas

A time of silence has been held by Lumiere in remembrance of Lt Gordon Matthew Ambelas, 

who died in the line of duty and at the service of humanity. 

May strength be with his family and colleagues at this time. 

A further time of silence was also held for firefighters, 

and for all who put their lives at risk following 

their call to serve our communities. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/nyregion/firefighter-dies-after-blaze-at-brooklyn-high-rise.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Breaking News; Meet Belfast Prolife

Love Them Both

Belfast Prolifers 

Belfast Prolife 

There's Always a Better Answer than Abortion

Witnessing to Life

Graceful Prolifer - Making the Most of the Day

Photograph of poster from Belfast Rally - with thanks to Precious Life

Breaking News; Thousands Bring Traffic to a Stop In Belfast

Inspirational Bernadette Smyth

YESTERDAY THE SANCTITY OF LIFE WAS HELD SACRED as thousands streamed in from every corner of Ireland to Belfast. Mothers with small infants, families, youth, mature and age-dignified mingled as the crowds chanted, marched and witnessed to the sanctity of unborn life. The determination to resist Abortion Legislation has become grimly entrenched. As marchers wound through the capital, at one point police had to form a cordon of protection for marchers.

Dana
At the Rally the luminous Dana appeared on the platform to resounding cheers that shook the area. Dana spoke of the recent Nigerian Pro-Life Conference, and encouraged all at the Rally to continue to do all in their power to protect life. Cheer after cheer rang through the crowds as the inspirational Bernadette Smyth and Niamh Ui Bhriain took to the stand to empower all present to continue the pledge to witness to Unborn Life. 

Diagnoses of short life
Showers of rain did little to dispel the dedication and enthusiasm of the Prolifers, who pledged yet again to keep our unborn citizens safe from harm. An estimated eight thousand people had come for the day. Three mothers tearfully spoke of their little ones who were found to have diagnoses which meant their lives would be of short, rather than long, duration. They spoke of their and their families' suffering, and of the blessing and joy their little ones brought to them during their short stay here on earth. These mothers were reinforcing that their babies' lives were precious. They also reinforced that abortion - death by intra-utero execution - rather than the coming to their own natural transition to the next life in the arms of their mothers was not an option. Protection in the womb for babies with severe disabilities was called for. 

Why not Volunteer?

Why not join the movement for Sanctity of Life 

of the Unborn Child? 

Volunteers are needed, see links below.

Volunteer Life Institute
http://www.thelifeinstitute.net/about-us/volunteer/

Volunteer Precious Life
http://www.preciouslife.com/contact

Luminous Dana Rosemary Scallon

 BBC News
 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-28177462

Precious Life Facts and Questions
http://www.preciouslife.com/faqs

Major Rally
http://www.youthdefence.ie/latest-news/major-rally-to-hear-that-abortion-is-lethal-discrimination-against-unborn-children-with-disabilities/

Conference in Nigeria
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/06/pro-life-conference-in-nigeria-tells-the-world-africa-opposes-abortion/

With thanks to BBC, Life Institute, Precious Life, Youth Defence, Lifenews

Breaking News; Pro-Life Rally Belfast tomorrow, 5th July 2014

LIFE CONTINUES TO BE HELD SACRED IN IRELAND. All Ireland Rally for Life will be taking place in Belfast at 2pm Irish time tomorrow. The numbers of Pro-Lifers in Ireland continue to grow. Seats have been booked out and people are pleading for lifts to get to Belfast tomorrow.
WHY NOT COME?
Lumiere Charity, Marian Praise and Supportlife Group will be representing dedication to the sanctity of life tomorrow.
WHERE? CUSTOM HOUSE SQUARE, BELFAST IRELAND
WHEN? 2 PM TOMORROW, SATURDAY 5 JULY 2014

Grimly entrenched
Opposition to Abortion in Ireland is now firmly and grimly entrenched. The family loving people are resolved never to accept the legislation. Why not support the sanctity of the newly beating heart in the womb, and stand as witness for the right to life of the newly conceived child and join us at the Rally either in person or in prayer.
  
http://www.rallyforlife.net/

See Facebook for following shared image;

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Supportlife-Group/128274477354743

With thanks to Precious Life

Good Shepherd Church Seminary; What happened to the Church Jesus Christ built?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH JESUS CHRIST BUILT?
It is alive and well, and under attack.
Why not become a dedicated priest of God and serve in His ministry to bring His peace, reconciliation and Grace to a suffering world?
Christianity is in the fortunate and privileged position of having made provision for many different forms and customs in following Jesus.
However, the reality remains that, ultimately, there is One Universal Fold and One Universal Shepherd - the Global Fold of Christians who express their faith in Jesus Christ in different ways, but whose belief is in the one Person; the Son of God. Jesus was sent to save humanity from the path of destruction we were treading, and to redirect us to Heaven.

Build His Church
Jesus promised He would build His Church, and assured His disciples that the Church would not perish (Matthew 16;18). We, His followers, are thus under a Divine Seal of Protection.
Our global Church may be attacked from within and without by forces unfriendly to the Son of God and His Mandate to save humanity, but it will survive - though sometimes embattled - and thrive.
Jesus Christ promised this.

Church of the Living God
We, God's People, form the Church of the Living God (1 Timothy 3;15).
We are to be on the lookout for, and be wary of, false prophets who are wolves in sheep's clothing. That is, they appear to be authentic, but their fruits show they are not true Christians and, instead of wishing to build up the Church of Jesus Christ, they endeavour to break it down.
"By their fruits you shall know them." (Matthew 7;15-17).
 
We form a people special to God. Let us be worthy of that Name.

GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH: ONLINE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD AND ONE OF US IS STILL HARD AT WORK TODAY.
His workshop is the world and each person we meet worthy of His particular ministry.

Good Shepherd Church Seminary is an online theological seminary which grants easy access for training to assist people to ministry, allowing them to lead worship, studies and ministry in their area.

See links below.

Benefits of Being an Ordained Priest;
1. Ordained priests are easily identifiable as ambassadors of God and His Son, Jesus Christ
2. Ordained ministers are dedicated to the Service of God and His Kingdom, and are identifiable as such with a legally recognized ordination
3. Ordained ministers and certain public officials can legally unite a couple in marriage. 
  The family is the bedrock of society. A family value-based nuclear family which is steady, loving and strong helps to form a strong society which both loves God and promotes individual, familial and societal happiness. 
  The priest has the privilege of assisting with marriage and maintenance of societal individuals in strong family units which can survive pressures and challenges of life
4. Ordained priests can officiate at baptisms, during which people formally begin their journey as a believer in God and disciple of Christ
5. Ordained priests can celebrate at the Sacraments instituted by Jesus Christ during His time here on earth
6. Ordained ministers can be called upon by local and global communities in need.
7. Ordained ministers are recognized by peers as a lawful part of the clergy
8. As a recognized minister, you can start or plant a church or ministry

 Desperate needs in Worldwide Church
Please keep in mind that there are desperate needs in the worldwide church at present. 
  Many labourers are needed for God's harvest. 
If God is calling you to be a priest, do not worry whether you are worthy or fitted for the ministry.    When God calls, all we need to do is answer His Call and place ourselves at His Service. 
  To Him falls the task of fitting and equipping us for the Ministry for which He intends us.

Called for a reason
God does not make mistakes. If He has called you, He has good reason. 
  God does not call saints to the priesthood; He makes saints.
  Often the priest reaches holiness on the personal path to priesthood.
  Have confidence that God will help you to face up and master the task He has set you.

  When God called me to the ministry, the one most surprised - I have to say - was myself.
  Surprise notwithstanding, it is both a delight and a privilege to follow and serve as ordained disciple to this greatest of Men, the Son of God - Jesus Christ.
If you wish to become a minister for free and for life, click in the following link; 
http://www.ulcseminary.org/ordination.php


Good Shepherd Church
http://lumierecharity.tripod.com/good-shepherd-church.html

Good Shepherd Church Seminary Course
http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2015/07/good-shepherd-church-gsc-training.html



With thanks to Universal Life Church