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February 01, 2007
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st. brigid's day   St. Brigid's day today. She is the patroness of Ireland. Second only to Patrick in veneration by the Irish. There are lots of legends surrounding her, but in actuality not much is historically known about her. She was an Abbess and obviously someone who was very holy and to be emulated. And of course there's the cross - made of reeds, St. Brigid's Cross (learn to make your own here). The legend is that she made the cross for a dying man (perhaps her own father) to share the message of Jesus' death and resurrection with him, and he was converted. You can read a synopsis of her legend here.The photo on the top right is one that I took at St. Brigid's Well, in the shrine built around it near Liscannor in County Clare, Ireland. It's an experience to to into one of these little shrines. I never had before this. There are thousands of little  trinkets of all kinds left there as symbols of prayers lifted up for loved ones - pictures of people, children, hats, scarves, necklaces, toys, candles, rosaries, everywhere. I did pray for a few minutes there and I dipped my daughter McKenzie's bandana into the tea-colored water there. She gave it to me to take to Ireland with me and so I brought back a little something for her.It was funny, as I was looking for this well, I passed it right up (it's right next to a pub on the side of the road) and went driving back, back, back into a very deserted country farm area where I saw a couple of quarries, an old castle tower in the middle of somebody's cattle farm, houses along an ocean inlet, and a nasty looking pack of Ravens sitting on some rock walls squawking like a little threatening gang of big mouths. If it would have been dark when I was back there that would have spooked me out and I may not have found my way out. On the left there is a photo I really like that I took while at the literal end of the road looking back. The gate of someone's farm was behind me. I'm not quite sure what I would've done if I'd met another vehicle. Stark beauty there. I've talked about asking Saints to pray for us before. It's something many Christians from a protestant tradition misunderstand I believe. I've tried to help explain it by explaining the Communion of Saints - or in very basic terms, when someone enters the dimension of reality we call "heaven," one does not cease to be a member of Christ's Body the Church and would still be able to participate as a member of that Body - such as praying for their siblings. And praying with a little more of an eternal perspective, "the big clue" I call it. I'll take that. And so... We give you thanks, our Lord and God, technorati tags > saint brigid, st. brigid, ireland, st. brigid's well, saints, prayer, communion of saints Labels: catholic, ireland, prayer, theology 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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