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History of St. Patrick's Day
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| 3/15/07
| Jake Kilroy
Posted on 03/15/2007 5:05:35 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
03/15/2007 5:09:23 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Alex Murphy
I proudly wear ORANGE on St. Patrcik's Day, just like my dear father taught me.
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posted on
03/15/2007 5:13:29 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Generally I spell it correctly, but not always.
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posted on
03/15/2007 5:14:31 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Congratulations on being Irish. Part Irish here too!
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posted on
03/15/2007 5:15:24 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
Saint Patrick
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Lorica of Saint Patrick I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through a belief in the Threeness, Through confession of the Oneness Of the Creator of creation.
I arise today Through the strength of Christ's birth and His baptism, Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial, Through the strength of His resurrection and His ascension, Through the strength of His descent for the judgment of doom.
I arise today Through the strength of the love of cherubim, In obedience of angels, In service of archangels, In the hope of resurrection to meet with reward, In the prayers of patriarchs, In preachings of the apostles, In faiths of confessors, In innocence of virgins, In deeds of righteous men.
I arise today Through the strength of heaven; Light of the sun, Splendor of fire, Speed of lightning, Swiftness of the wind, Depth of the sea, Stability of the earth, Firmness of the rock.
I arise today Through God's strength to pilot me; God's might to uphold me, God's wisdom to guide me, God's eye to look before me, God's ear to hear me, God's word to speak for me, God's hand to guard me, God's way to lie before me, God's shield to protect me, God's hosts to save me From snares of the devil, From temptations of vices, From every one who desires me ill, Afar and anear, Alone or in a mulitude.
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I summon today all these powers between me and evil, Against every cruel merciless power that opposes my body and soul, Against incantations of false prophets, Against black laws of pagandom, Against false laws of heretics, Against craft of idolatry, Against spells of women and smiths and wizards, Against every knowledge that corrupts man's body and soul. Christ shield me today Against poison, against burning, Against drowning, against wounding, So that reward may come to me in abundance.
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me, Christ in the eye that sees me, Christ in the ear that hears me.
I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through a belief in the Threeness, Through a confession of the Oneness Of the Creator of creation
St. Patrick (ca. 377) |
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posted on
03/15/2007 5:16:29 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
Thank you. And Congratulations to you, too. I admire the Irish for their poetry and their love of family and their crystal.
But I've never understood how a country surrounded by water (and thus lots of fish) could suffer a famine when the potato crop is off.
Perplexing. 8~)
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posted on
03/15/2007 5:21:49 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Well, Dr. Eckleburg, that's because the potato failure wasn't the reason people starved.
To: Dr. Eckleburg
oh that's easy....England hoarded all their other produce, they had taken off with livestock years before that. Food was literally rotting on the docks waiting to be shipped to England. All that we were left to subsist on were potatoes.
I lost too many family members in the Potato Famine.
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posted on
03/15/2007 6:39:57 PM PDT
by
mockingbyrd
(peace begins in the womb)
To: Salvation
Now the real deal is when you hear this set to the music of C.V. Stanford. Highlight of every St. Patrick's day for me.
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posted on
03/15/2007 6:41:26 PM PDT
by
mockingbyrd
(peace begins in the womb)
To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
03/15/2007 6:54:07 PM PDT
by
JerseyJohn61
(Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
To: mockingbyrd; StPatricksBreastplate; Alex Murphy
I'm not sure which Irish potatoe famine you guys are talking about, but the one I learned about in school is listed here in Wikipedia...
IRISH POTATO FAMINE
"The Great Famine or the Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol) is the name given to the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. The Famine was due to the appearance of "the (potato) Blight" (also known as phytophthora) the oomycete that almost instantly destroyed the primary food source for the majority of the island's population. The immediate after-effects of The Famine continued until 1851. Much is unrecorded, and various estimates suggest that between 500,000 and more than one million people died in the three years from 1846 to 1849 as a result of hunger or disease. About 12% of the population. Some two million refugees are attributed to the Great Hunger (estimates vary), and much the same number of people emigrated to Great Britain, the United States, Canada, and Australia.
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posted on
03/15/2007 9:45:34 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Siobhan; Maeve
I proudly wear ORANGE on St. Patrcik's Day, just like my dear father taught me.Ladies..... ;-)
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posted on
03/15/2007 9:50:10 PM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
that would be the one....it was so deadly due to the lack of any other available food.
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posted on
03/15/2007 10:09:42 PM PDT
by
mockingbyrd
(peace begins in the womb)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Alex Murphy; StPatricksBreastplate
here are some good links with a more detailed history....
Irish Potato Famine
ethnic America
The Great Hunger
This last link properly points out that it is erroneous to refer to it as a famine, since only the potato crop failed.
This would be why Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for Britain's role in the Irish Potato Famine, in 1997.
Oh the praties they grow small, over here
Oh the praties they grow small
And way up in Donegal
We eat them skins and all, over here, over here
We eat them skins and all, over here.
Oh I wish that we were geese, night and morn,
Oh I wish that we were geese
Till the hour of our release
When we'd live and die in peace, stuffing corn, stuffing corn
When we' d live and die in peace, stuffing corn.
Oh, they'll grind us into dust, over here
Oh, they'll grind us into dust,
But the Lord in whom we trust
Will return us crumb for crust, over here, over here
Will return us crumb for crust, over here.
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posted on
03/15/2007 10:26:40 PM PDT
by
mockingbyrd
(peace begins in the womb)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Me mudder was born in Germany. Me Fahter's folks were from
the Auld Sod. I am the white in the flag of Ireland.
Having to balance, segregate and unify the forces that were.
A Lutheran and a Catholic that argued about everything
except religion. Go figure and get over your self DOCTOR
eckleshietzterburger. If not, then just go and run along
now and enjoy orange as I do . Carving a Jack-o-lantern
around Halloween. Or didn't ya hear; the Kelts invented
that too. Oooops! Bad we are....JJ61
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posted on
03/16/2007 6:01:20 PM PDT
by
JerseyJohn61
(Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
To: Alex Murphy
My both parents were born in Ireland and my dad's name was Patrick. And my parents didn't drink! How did that
happen? LOL
Grew up on Irish music - and it is the BEST!
To: Alex Murphy
"I'm so sick of people who aren't Irish trying to use St. Patrick's Day as an excuse to drink," said Tina Ganjifard, a 21-year-old Lighten up, Tina.
Besides, you're 21. You've barely had time to become sick of anything.
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posted on
03/16/2007 9:35:47 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Duncan Hunter 2008)
To: Alex Murphy
To: Alex Murphy; All
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posted on
03/17/2007 6:07:44 AM PDT
by
murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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