23 July 1997
"It hasn't been easy .........there has been humiliation, lies, twisted stories".
Tom: Christina, you have a very definite focus in life?
Christina: Eleven years ago, in 1985, I saw a vision of Our Lord while praying at Cairns grotto in Co. Sligo. There was no message. I went there looking for peace. I was just like everybody else up to then other that I have been called by God through our Blessed Mother to give a message to the world. I am doing the best I can to do just that.
Tom: Tell me about the House of Prayer. How did it begin?
Christina: Well, the Blessed Mother asked me for a Little House of Prayer for the priests and laity, a place where priests and people could gather and pray and adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. After I was led to Achill, Our Lady told me at a later stage certain things regarding the island and why Achill.
T.S. Can you talk further about that?
Christina: No, not really.
Tom: There were certain explanations given to you?
Christina: "Yes, and I was shown quite a lot of things that will be in the future".
Tom: You were just an ordinary housewife up until the mid eighties?
Christina: Yes, I went to Mass as I was taught to do. I went to Confession in the knowledge of knowing your sins would be forgiven. But I was unaware of the full depth and strength of the Sacraments. I would say the Rosary as fast as I could. Our Blessed Mother told me to pray the Rosary from my heart. So She prayed part of the Rosary with me and I knew then it should be a conversation not meant to be a rhyme or said without thought Our hearts are to be open to receive the grace that Our Blessed Mother has gifted us.
Tom: How often would you have contact with the Blessed Virgin?
Christina: In the beginning I had apparitions which went on for some time and can still go on. The experiences vary. I share those experiences with Fr. McGinnity and from theology of knowledge of books he is able to interpret them.
Tom: You appear to have a certain mission as regards priests?
Christina: God sometimes gives me intimate details about priests when I meet them. He gives me a knowledge of their lives or their faults or whatever their weaknesses may be. Many people except to see the perfectness of God in priests, they forget that a priest is human. When I first saw the human weaknesses in priests it came as a little shock to me. Now I have got to know priests and know their role regarding them.
Tom: Can you feel these faults when you meet priests?
Christina: It's not "feel". When you are meet them you are sitting blank. But in instant I can know an enormous part of their lives. There may have been something in their lives, maybe their childhood that had become a barrier in their priesthood. I talk it through with them and make them see it as a normal human weakness, that everybody is weak.
Tom: Can you say what the future is for the Church in Ireland?
Christina: It is like as in Scripture, the gates of Hell will never prevail against it. The Church will go through the purification as we, the laity, will go through the purification.
T.S. Will the world end as predicted?
Christina: There won't be an end of the world but an end of sin, a purification that will end sin and those who rebel against the Truth and those who refuseto receive the Truth. If people try to come back to God, there will be a merecy shown to them.
Tom: Some within the Church are a bit sceptical of what is happening here?
Christina: Some within the Church, just like laity, can be sceptical. But in the history of the Church what's happening to me is nothing new. It's that laity or whoever may find their hearts are closed, they may find it difficult. If their hearts are open to the Truth they will recognise the Truth. The Bishops have not been too bad. After all, it was the Archbishop (Joseph Cassidy) that opened this House four years ago. He is an extremely good and holy man
Tom: Were you religious as a youngster?
Christina: I suppose I was like any teenager. I went to dances. I thought about praying. I had my little quiet time to pray. There wasn't any deep or long prayer. While a teenager, I was told I had died as a five year old. This was confirmed to me by Our Blessed Mother. I got pneumonia. My heart stopped. I wasn't breathing. I heard a voice. I had known it as God. I did not know of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The voice said He was coming to take me to Heaven. I pleaded that I didn't want to go to Heaven yet. At the end of it, I heard the voice saying:'So be it'. Three of my family , two girls and a boy, died in childhood.
Tom: How does your family now react to your long absences?
Christina: They have come to accept it. They understand and help me. As regards being a mother I have not changed. I am the same as I always was except for the prayer.
Tom: The House of Prayer has become an industry of sorts?
Christina: That wasn't the intention but it is what God wills and desires. I was told to set up a Little House of Prayer. I didn't know about the crosses that went along with this Little House of Prayer. It hasn't been an easy four years any more than it has been an easy ten years. There has been humiliation, lies, twisted stories. They hurt me just the same as anybody else. I am trying to tell as best I know because I prefer humiliation from people rather than to face God not fulfilling what I was asked to do. I had hostility from neighbours, disbelief. I think I was more accepted in America. But the more crucifixion, the more glory to God.
Tom: A lot of people claim cures as a result of meeting you?
Christina: I have no healing powers. I wish I had and I would heal everybody. All I do is pray, Some are healed, I have no choice who. I don't believe in praying over anybody because I don't want them to think I have any healing power. I pray with somebody and if they are healed then the credit and the glory is to God. I can't explain any of the healings. It's God's way of upholding the truth of what he gave me and yet showing his mercy and love to those he heals.
Tom: What are your hopes from the Church Commission investigation?
Christina: I have no hopes as regards anything. I leave everything in the hands of God. It won't ake rom my heart or my mind what has happened to me regardless of what the Church sya. But I will be in obedience to the Church authorities because, after all, Jesus gave to St. Peter the keys of the Kindgom of Heaven . So, for that reason, to the authorities hereafter I will be in obedience for Christ's sake but I will never doubt what happened to me and what I have experienced, seen or heard regardless of any living lperson.
