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The green theme on CathInfo is not noticeable to some members who are using tablets or smart phones or whatever.  (they say on another thread that was started four hours after this one was)


It's always something!!  


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After 1400 years and we're still getting miracles from St. Paddy.  

Erin Go Bragh!  





Here's an interesting site:


http://www.stpatricksdayneworleans.com/


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And a happy St. Patrick's Day to all.

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:dancing-banana:will change to :jumping2:in honor of St. Patrick!  I AM 50% Irish, after all!

I saw the new emoticons and thought of you!  :dancing-banana:

Of course, I need to tell you, whenever I browse the Anon section and see a  :dancing-banana:

I'm always sure the author is you Frances. (Only half-Irish, only half green  :smile: ) BUT usually the content of the post makes it clear someone's using your bananas! Or you have triple or quadruple personalities!

How 'bout this emoticon!!!  :surprised: or this:

I just LOVE this, Matthew!

It used to be about being Catholic and Irish, I remember all the banners and zeal for Irish resistance to the Anglo-Prot oppression in Northern Ireland and the local support from Irish Catholics and the Church. St Pat's Day was truly a day to be Irish, Catholic and proud.

Today it's about young kids who have no clue of any of this outside of wearing green and getting drunk, it's become a real travesty and pagan.

This is true, but it's true with almost anything, Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday being probably the absolute worst bastardization of a Church observance ever.  But I hope we still celebrate these observances because we can't let the world dictate what we're celebrating and why. We're the happy people, and our observances of these feast days always gives hope that someone will wonder why the city is turning it's river green (or why people go hog-wild before Ash Wednesday, etc).

And then we get converts!  

And we get occasion to make the Prots wonder why :alcohol: a draught of ale won't send you to Hell!

Thank you Matthew!

And Happy St. Patrick's Day, CI!

O'Reilly was also the name of the first resident priest in Atlanta. He saved the church from being burned down by Sherman.

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The Wolf Tones are really great examples of what Irish Folk Music is all about.  





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Last year for St. Patrick's Day, the Fatima Center distributed the following Hymn as a 4-page pamphlet.  It has a beautiful picture of the Saint on the cover.  I'm always amazed at how ALIVE he seems in the hearts and minds of the Irish.  Here is a man who lived and died over 1500 (fifteen hundred) years ago, 1,553 years, actually.  And he remains as alive now on his Feast Day as he was in the year A.D. 460.  

Today is the 1553rd anniversary of his birthday into eternal beatitude.  If the world remembers me, 1553 years from now, it will be a miracle!  HAHAHAHA  




St. Patrick made this hymn in the time of Loegaire (King of all Ireland from 428 to 462).  The cause of its composition was to protect him and his monks against the deadly enemies that lay in wait for the priests and religious.   This is a breastplate of faith for the protection of body and soul against devils, men and vices.

When anyone shall repeat it every day with diligent intentness on God, devils shall not dare to face him;  it shall be a protection to him against every poison and envy;  it shall be a defense for him against sudden death, it shall be a breastplate to his soul after his death.

St. Patrick sang this hymn when ambushes were laid against his coming by Loegaire, that he might not go to Tara (in County Meath), residence of the high king) to sow the faith.  It appeared to those lying in ambush that Saint Patrick and his monks were wild deer with a fawn.  One of St. Patrick's earliest disciples, St. Beningus, joined him while still a boy and so appeared to the assassins as a fawn following them.  The name of the hymn is thus, "Deer's Cry."  
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I arise today:
    Through a mighty strength received
        by the invocation of the Most Holy Trinity +:
    Through a belief in the Threeness,
    Through a confession of the Oneness of the
        Creator of all things visible and invisible.

I arise today:
     Through the strength of Christ's Birth and His Baptism;
     Through the strength of His Crucifixion and Burial;
     Through the strength of His Resurrection and Ascension;
     Through the strength of His Descent for Judgment Day.

I arise today:
    In the hope of the Resurrection to meet with reward;
     Through the merits of the love of Cherubim;
     Through the merits of the service of the Archangels;
     Through the merits of the obedience of the Angels;
     Through the merits of the prayers of the Patriarchs;
     Through the merits of the predictions of the Prophets,
     Through the merits of the preaching of the Apostles;
     Through the merits of the faith of the Confessors;
     Through the merits of the innocence of all Holy Virgins;
     Through the merits of the deeds of all righteous men.

I arise today:
     Through the strength of Heaven, which creates:
        the light of the sun,
        the radiance of the moon,
        the splendor of fire,
        the speed of lightening,
        the swiftness of the winds,
        the depth of the seas,
        the stability of the earth,
        the firmness of rocks.

I arise today:
     Through God's Strength to guide me;
     Through God's Might to uphold me;
                God's Wisdom to teach me;
          "    God's Eye to watch over me;
          "    God's Ear to hear me;
          "    God's Word to speak for me;
          "    God's Hand to guard me;
          "    God's Way which lies before me;
          "    God's Shield which protects me;
          "    God's Host to secure me:  against the snares of the devils,
                                                         against the temptation of vices,
                                                         against the inclinations of nature,
                                                         against everyone who desires to
                                                             harm me - whether near or far,
                                                             alone or with many.

I arise today:
     Through a mighty strength received
        by the invocation of the Most Holy Trinity +;
     Through a belief in the Threeness,
     Through a confession of the Oneness of the
        Creator of all things visible and invisible.
  Salvation is of the Lord.
  Salvation is from the Lord.
  Salvation is of Christ.
  May Thy salvation, O Lord, be ever with us.  AMEN.




 



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