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Sunday, December 28, 2014

"First Annual Report"



A
Year  on, my love,
A Year  since we Parted,
You  to  the  Prayer-wrapped Unknown,
Me  to  a Cell  called Freedom

In  your  Place I have Memory,
stingy  Usurper
Dispensing  crumbs
From  the  banquet  of  your Table

Like  a donkey  in Omeath
Kicking  my Pride
And  your  Laughter
Animating  the  Mournes

OChampagne  Saturday
When  we  whooped  and  Danced
To  new Celestial  Arrivals
On  our Cherished Firmament

Your  light  is on  Dim  now, my love,
Yet  blinding  Flashes of you
Startle  me  awake
From  the  barren  Limbo of  Dreams,

You'll  be  pleased God  is Back,
HLeft  when you died,
Went  a.w.o.l.,
Like  He'd  been  found out
Not  having  the  Answers
And  Permitting  instead  a Soothing Indulgence:
Why  hast Thou Forsaken me

Yet  there  again, my dear,
must  Allow  for Pre-occupation
With  Glamorous  new Arrival,
Introductions  all  round,
Glasses Raised  and  all  that,
Yours  a  spritzer, my love?

That's  about  It  for now, my dear,
Except to  say the blubbering  is Ceased
And  Sorrow's  sickly syrup of Self
Expunged  from  the Menu

Well...in  Hope  and  Prayer,  that  is

My  love


~Gerry Corr
Ireland

~Beannaichte'
28 December, 2014
 


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Händel Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus

Living Space The Holy Family – 28 December (B) | Sacred Space

Living Space The Holy Family – 28 December (B) | Sacred Space

Thursday, December 18, 2014

"Bright Blue Rose"

I 
 skimmed across 
blackwater
without once submerging
onto the banks of an urban
morning
that hungers the first Light
much much more
than the mountains ever do.

And she like the ghost beside
me
goes down with the ease of a
dolphin
and emerges unlearned,
unshamed,
unharmed.

For she is the perfect creature
a natural in every feature
and I am the geek with the
alchemist's stone 

For all of you who must discover
For all who seek to understand
For having left the path of others
You find a very special hand.

And it is a Holy thing
And it is a precious time,
And it is the only way.
Forget-me-nots among the
snow
Its always been and so it
goes
To ponder His death
And His life eternally.

One bright blue rose
outlives all those
two thousand years
and still it goes
to ponder His death 
and His life
Eternally. 

~ Jimmy Mac Carthy

~ Beannaichte'
18 December, 2014 


You find a very special hand.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "Friendship"

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Friday, December 5, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: " How Deep the Father's Love for Us"

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Friday, November 21, 2014

Thursday, October 30, 2014

"Dear Lord I Know"


To let go does not mean to stop caring.
It means I can't do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off.
It's the realization I can't control another. 
To let go is not to enable,
but to allow learning from natural consequences. 
To let go is to admit powerlessness,
which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try and change or be another.
It's to make the most of myself.  
To let go is not to care for, but to care about.
To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to e in the middle arranging all outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective.
It's to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny, but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue,
but to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my own desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize and regulate anybody, 
but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.
To let go is to fear less and love more.
Lord, help me to let go. 

~ Unknown

~ Beannaichte'
30 October, 2014

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "Sacred Reverie"

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Friday, October 3, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "Dovetail"

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "Autumn Prayer"

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "Letting Go"

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Isle of Hope - Tommy Fleming

Beannaichte's Blog: "Irish Blessing"

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "Green Eyes"

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

"And So It Is"

    And so it is .
    The seed is planted
      In the fertile winter soil,
     to be nurtured lovingly
    by earth and rain .
    It blossoms in the warmth of spring,
 paying homage to the sky.
 Its sweet fruit grows unattended, 
   ripening in the sun,
to be gathered in the harvest .


      Another seed is planted .
   And so it is .


~Randy Jaroch
U.S.A.

~Beannaichte'
 3 September, 2014

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Friday, August 1, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "Never Give All The Heart"

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Friday, July 25, 2014

"Ancestries"


                         Much of our power comes from our past.  We have always drawn upon the 
ancient world for knowledge, for enlightenment, even for example.  Our philosophies, our 
political structures, our dramatic expressions have long been guided by the systems of olde 
civilizations.  More narrowly, we also draw upon our own particular ancestries.  Why the 
tradition of family portraits?  How often do we tease apart the branches of the family tree-
and grow fascinated?
                         It seems not to matter much if that olde family thread of ours is frail or
poorly traceable or even if it fades into obscurity.  We need the spirits of our past more than
we need the facts; we need the pride more than we need the proof.  And the more mobile we become, and the farther we travel from our point of origin, the more we seem to want to return.  
That is, if the Irish example can be judged; to have come from Ireland, no matter how long ago,
is to be of Ireland, in some part, forever.
                         Internationally, genealogical research has been one of the world's growing
pastimes.  Within our origins we search for our anchors, our steadiness.  And every one's
journey to the past is different.  It might be found in a legend or in the lore of an ancestor's courage or an  inherited flair.  Or it might be found simply by standing on the earth once owned
by a namesake tribe, touching the stone they carved, finding their spoor.  In all cases we are
drawn to the places whence they came - because to grasp who they were may guide what 
we might become.

~ Unknown

~Beannaichte'
24 July, 2014

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

" Things Worth Praising "


RainSoft rain.  Hard pelting rainSleet and snow.
Clouds: white, grey, darkA spring breeze.
The predictability of stars and moon and sun.

Green small hills.  Craggy slopes. Granite cliffs.
Topsoil deep and richThe melody of rivers.
The power of tides.  The cycle of change.

Industry of bee and wormSweet fruit that follows.
Microbes that make cheese.  Ones that cure us.
Profound cooperation that begets lichen.

Birdsong carried on wind.  The shadow of a horse
against a limestone wallA dog's warmth.
BloodFleshBonesHeartsBreath.

A friend's hand, reaching out for help or tea.
A sigh, a song, an honest smile, a body dancing.
Everything that connects and is connected
 Everything.

~ Patricia Monaghan 
U.S.A./Ireland


~Beannaichte'
26 June, 2014

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Friday, June 20, 2014

" Latiarian's Heart "


Three holy women came westward
from France to that place on the border

of Kerry and Cork where the great paps
rise, Danu's giant mist-clad breasts:

Lasair, the eldest, stopped at Killasseragh
and made a hermit's cell her home;

and the middle sister, the yellow haired one,
went along the Blackwater to Dromtarriff

and stopped her journey there; and
the youngest, Latiarian, went to coal-rich

Cullen, where a smith gave her embers
every day to heat her hut.  She carried

the embers back in her apron and spent
her days in prayer and contemplation.

Then one day the smith complimented
her shapely feet and Latiarian's apron

burst into flame and she uttered a curse
that no smith would ever thrive in Cullen

and she disappeared, leaving behind
only a granite stone beside the road.

Her curse still holds.  No blacksmith lives
in Cullen now to give away embers

and compliment the women.  What's
 left of Latiarian?  A heart-shaped stone.

~Patricia Monaghan
U.S.A./Ireland


~ Beannaichte'
20 June, 2014

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

"Poetry"




~ALL
  POETRY
 IS
  PRAYER


~ Samuel Beckett
(1906-1989)
Ireland
   



~Beannaichte'
12 June, 2014
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

"Hope"


After the Rain there is a Rainbow
After the Storm there is a Calm
After the Night there is a Morning. . .
And after an Ending there is a
New Beginning.

~ Unknown

~ Beannaichte'
21 May, 2014

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Friday, May 16, 2014

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

"Strength"


~You

Never Know

How Strong You Are . . .

Until

Being Strong

is

the Only Choice

         You Have . . . 
  

~Unknown

~Beannaichte'
14 May, 2014

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Billy Joe Shaver - When The Fallen Angels Fly

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

" The Edge"


~When
you come to the Edge of Light;
 you know,
and are about to set off
into the Edge
of  Darkness
of the
Unknown,
Faith
is Knowing
that One of two things 
will Happen -
there  will  be
something Solid to Stand on,
or
you will be
Taught 
how to 
Fly.
~Barbara J. Winter
U.S.A.
~ Beannaichte'
13 May, 2014
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

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Sunday of week 4 of Easter

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Friday, May 9, 2014

"Realise"



If  you succeed in cheating someone,

Don't  think that person is a fool . . .

Realise -

That person Trusted you

More than you

deserved . . .

~Unknown

~Beannaichte'
9 May, 2014

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

"Forever"


~ I wrote your Name in the Sky,
But the Wind blew it away.
I wrote your Name in the Sand,
     But the Waves washed it away. 
  ~ I wrote your Name in my Heart, 
and
 
 forever
 
   it will Stay.

~ Unknown

~ Beannaichte'
7 May, 2014

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Monday, April 28, 2014

"Thoughts That Count"

        

          ...But for all the richness of my friend's words, I think the most powerful advice I ever received was from my father, Danny Thomas.
          When I was a struggling young actress of 18, and he was already a famous comedian, I went to him in tears because everyone was comparing me with him.  He said, "I raised you to be a thoroughbred, and when thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions from the other horses.  They run their own race.  That's what you have to do. Don't listen to anyone comparing you to me or anyone else.  You just run your own race."
          My dad gave me so much great advice over the years.  And when he died, I knew how much I would miss talking to him.  But that's when another friend, Mike Nichols, gave me advice I still cherish-and pass along to others who have lost someone they love. "All the things you wish you had said, you can still tell him," he said.  "The conversation continues..."

~ Marlo Thomas
U.S.A.

~ Beannaichte'
28 April, 2014

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Beannaichte's Blog: "The Poet"

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Royal Choral Society: 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's Messiah

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday
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~ Hallelujah!
He
is
Risen! 

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~ Easter Blessings!

~Beannaichte'
20 April, 2014

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Saturday, April 19, 2014

"Not Mine"...


Jesus 
said to His friends:
"My heart is broken with sorrow.
Remain here with Me.
Be on guard and pray.
The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
He prayed to His Father:
"Father, if it is possible,
take this cup of suffering from Me.
Nonetheless, not mine,
but Your 
will 
be
done."

~ From Matthew; Chapter 26

~Beannaichte'
19 April, 2014

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Good Friday – Readings

Good Friday – Readings

"The Stabat Mater"


At the Cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last.

Through her heart His sorrow sharing,
All His bitter anguish bearing,
Lo! The piercing sword has Passed.

For His people's sins rejected,
Saw her Jesus unprotected,
Saw with thorns, with scourges rent.

Saw her Son from judgement taken,
Her beloved in death forsaken,
Till His spirit forth He sent.

Jesus, may your Cross defend me,
And your Mother's prayer befriend me:
Let me die in Your embrace.

When to dust my dust returns,
Grant a Soul, which for You yearns,
In Your Paradise a place.   

~ Amen.

[Blessed Jacopone da Todi ( 1230-1306)]

~Beannaichte'
17 April, 2014

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