Author Topic: Seeing Green (Read 3892 times)

Stubborn · « **on:** March 17, 2016, 05:06:35 AM »

Ahhh, I missed that!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

MaterDominici · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2016, 01:20:26 PM »

F5 to see green :jumping2:

Matthew · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2016, 01:28:57 PM »

:smile:

cassini · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2016, 03:46:27 PM »

Greetings from Ireland on this St Patrick's day.

At Mass this morning we all got blessed shamrock to wear in our lapels in memory of St Patrick.

For those of you who may not know the shamrock is a little plant with three leaves and thus represents the Trinity.

There are other such little plants called clover, but only the shamrock is pure green. Others similar three--leaf stems have white inside them. Kind of like one true Church and many other pretenders. As kids we knew the real thing from the blemished ones.

St Patrick's day over here now has been hijacked by secularism and the saint's Catholicity is never mentioned anymore.

Now that St Patrick's day is celebrated all over the world, even in China now, the last thing they want to celebrate is his Catholic zeal.

Matthew · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2016, 04:32:35 PM »

Here on CathInfo I always turn the site green on St. Patrick's Day, and usually keep it that way for the rest of March (sometimes partway into April! hahaha)

Because on my father's side, we came from Ireland. My father's ancestors lived in Wisconsin for a few generations after immigrating from Ireland.

I hope to keep alive the Irish spirit of fighting for the Faith against great odds. I also hope to promote in myself and others the Irish love of truth, frankness, and honesty.

My ancestors must have all stayed Catholic, or else my grandfather and father wouldn't have been Catholic.

stgobnait · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2016, 04:46:44 PM »

In a vision, Saint Patrick saw the Light of Faith almost disappear from Ireland, But not completely, Saint Patrick, come to our aid, in our battles take part.....

Maria Regina · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2016, 06:18:44 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Here on CathInfo I always turn the site green on St. Patrick's Day, and usually keep it that way for the rest of March (sometimes partway into April! hahaha)

Because on my father's side, we came from Ireland. My father's ancestors lived in Wisconsin for a few generations after immigrating from Ireland.

I hope to keep alive the Irish spirit of fighting for the Faith against great odds. I also hope to promote in myself and others the Irish love of truth, frankness, and honesty.

My ancestors must have all stayed Catholic, or else my grandfather and father wouldn't have been Catholic.

Aha!

I thought the kelly green bars had something to do with St. Patrick's day.

Yes, my family line goes back to County Cork, Ireland.

Prayerful · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2016, 07:28:14 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Here on CathInfo I always turn the site green on St. Patrick's Day, and usually keep it that way for the rest of March (sometimes partway into April! hahaha)

Because on my father's side, we came from Ireland. My father's ancestors lived in Wisconsin for a few generations after immigrating from Ireland.

I hope to keep alive the Irish spirit of fighting for the Faith against great odds. I also hope to promote in myself and others the Irish love of truth, frankness, and honesty.

My ancestors must have all stayed Catholic, or else my grandfather and father wouldn't have been Catholic.

Thank you Matthew.

There is an old superstition that 'green is for grief' but to me it's the nicer colour. I'm biased being Irish, but maybe keep the green.

Maria Regina · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2016, 10:29:41 PM »

Thank you, Matthew, for sharing the green.

poche · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2016, 11:14:10 PM »

Happy St Patrick's day

cassini · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2016, 03:58:21 PM »

These are actual vocal recordings of kids at school in Dublin. Enjoy a time when kids left primary school young theologians.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #11 on:** March 28, 2016, 12:30:25 PM »

Quote from: Matthew (Mar 17, 2016, 5:32 pm)

Here on CathInfo I always turn the site green on St. Patrick's Day, and usually keep it that way for the rest of March (sometimes partway into April! hahaha)

The Web site for the local independent Catholic church shows its Lenten purple (d.b.a. "violet") theme on the date of the saint's feast, because Ash Wednesday always falls between February 4 and March 10 (inclusive), and Lent never ends earlier than March 22. Sigh.

Quote from: Matthew (Mar 17, 2016, 5:32 pm)

[...] on my father's side, we came from Ireland. My father's ancestors lived in Wisconsin for a few generations after immigrating from Ireland.

Attracted by seeing a map locating a place named "Green Bay"?

'Twas many decades before science would show that the modern population of Ireland has the world's highest percentage of genetic tolerance for dairy products (or to take the rare opportunity to flaunt the Latinate--thus overtly more Catholic--word newly learned this year from Canon Law: lacticinia), notably including cheese.

I can claim no better than 1/8 Irish blood, calculated unscientifically as having 1 pureblood-Irish great-grandmother, who, altho' born in a Yankee state during the War Between the States, was the very devoutly Catholic daughter of native Irish, and was married post"Reconstruction" in a neutralized border state (i.e.: one south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but north of the Deep South).

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #12 on:** March 28, 2016, 03:49:11 PM »

Quote from: Matthew (Mar 17, 2016, 2:28 pm)

(No need for a cow-poke to go west to Cali-for-nee, ~~begorrah~~, there's gold raht hyar!)    :smile:    

Ah, yes. I see that the shamrocks flanking the CathInfo logo are actually part of it. So much for the temptation to simply, um, borrow them.

I'm curious about how well equipped CathInfo's readers are with Unicode. That's relevant to this topic because it provides 2 single-symbol substitues for an actual image of a shamrock such as Matthew uses. On this special occasion, I'm specifying an overly large character size that's almost always too large to be appropriate for all but the rarest text on an Internet forum:
· 'SHAMROCK' at U+2618 (decimal 9752): ☘
· 'BLACK CLUB SUIT'

at U+2663 (decimal 9827): ♣

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Note #: Arguably originating as a printable character by abuse of the ASCII ENQ control code (thus CTRL-E) in the graphic-adapter ROMs of the original IBM PC.  But 2 separate published interviews said otherwise:
· one with IBM's PC-project manager Philip "Don" Estridge (r.i.p.)[##], which I recall as the earlier one by several years; and
· another with Bill Gates & Paul Allen [###].
Both interviews docuмented that the subject character was among the character codes that were perpetuated from earlier Wang word-processors, which were very popular in the business world in the early 1980s.

##: Some IBM-PC-anniversary issue, e.g.: 5th, thus 1986,
or 10th, thus 1991, of
· either the main U.S. PC-focused magazines, e.g.: BYTE, PC Magazine, or PC World;
· or perhaps some employee-or-stockholder publication from IBM itself.
That being perhaps 1/4 century ago, I just can't recall the source, but I do recall reading something in it about working out the character-set on a plane trip from some IBM Hq. site (typically in N.Y.) back to IBM's Boca Raton Lab (where IBM's original PC was developed).

###: Fortune Magazine, October 2, 1995 (this citation via Wikipedia "Code_page_437").

Desmond · « **Reply #13 on:** March 29, 2016, 02:16:43 PM »

Little green goblins (or whatever they are) are blasphemous and unbiblical.

Nadir · « **Reply #14 on:** April 01, 2016, 12:59:13 AM »

:mad:I've never heard a leprechaun blaspheme; besides we are not protestants here.