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*bows to Tinwe's genius*

Although, it is St. Brigid's day... Happy St. Brigid's day everyone! (Not in Ireland any more though. But we celebrated it in style! Whee!)

I forgot to celebrate it! How did you celebrate it?


Lali

So February is being downgraded to a dwarf month, huh?

Sounds like a theme to me.

Is tossing of dwarf months allowed?

I was actually gonna ask about this. Does anywhere outside of Ireland make St. Brigids crosses?

The story goes that she was sitting by the bedside of a dying chieftain and started weaving a cross from reeds. He asked her what she was doing and she explained her faith to him, whereupon he asked to be baptized before he died. In memory, Irish people make the same cross before Feb 1st and get them blessed at Mass. They are then put up in the house for the year, and are replaced the following year by a new one.

Here's a picture and link from Wikipedia


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Brigid%27s_Cross" target="_blank"

We just got drunk last night to celebrate.

There was no mention at all of Bríd in either of the services I sang at yesterday... Candlemas took precedence.

I never heard of that tradition, Alatar. And, what exactly is Candlemas? (I am not RC or Anglican)

Today here is Groundhog's Day!! I have not heard whether he saw his shadow or not. It really does not matter, we always get at least six more weeks of Winter in any case.

I also read that the UK got bombarded with snow, did that also hit those of you in Ireland?

Ah - Groundhog Day, the most sacred day in the Christian calendar. Legend has it that St. Glen, upon arriving in the wastes of Rimouski encountered a groundhog who, through the almighty power of God, began to speak to him with a human voice, exhorting him to spread the gospel, especially the Book of Jude, which the groundhog assured him was the finest piece of literature in the English language.

St. Glen paused for a moment, furrowed his brow, and replied thus: "Um - wasn't the Book of Jude written in Greek?"

"Touché," replied the groundhog. "Oh, hey - is that my shadow?"

Never trust a groundhog from Rimouski.

Watcher, may I steal your line?


Alatar, one year the girls and I made St. Brigid's crosses. I suppose if I still lived in Cleveland and could find an Irish Catholic church, I might have found a mass celebrating this day.

Candlemas is technically the celebration of when Jesus was presented at the Temple to Simeon. They used to bless the candles used in church; I don't know if they still do or not.


Lali

Alatar wrote:

I was actually gonna ask about this. Does anywhere outside of Ireland make St. Brigids crosses?

Yes they do. Fairly common around here.
Then again there is a large Irish Catholic population around here so maybe that's partly why.

tinwë wrote:

March is the best month of the year. March 8 is the best day of the month. ‘Cause I say so, that’s why.

February is to months what catapults are to seige engines - a pale imitation of the real thing and nowhere close to the magnificence of the Trebuchet!

So there - February is nowhere close to the magnificence of the Trebuchet.

I have spoken.

Hey! I tell you what I'm gonna give you, Tinwe. I'm gonna give you to the count of 10 to get your ugly, yellow, no-good keister off my property before I pump you full of donuts! One, two, ten.


So let it be written, so let it be done.





Now I am off to figure out St. Brigids crosses.

Behold! The Holy Groundhog of Rimouski!

Awesome. So awesome.

Does His Holiness the Sacred Groundhog of Rimouski take requests? Because I'd like to sick him on Ara-Anna. Amen.

*hasn't been pumped full of donuts in a while ... sits back ... waits*

What would sicking [sic] (lol) him on her accomplish?

Six weeks of cold or the flu?

We had candles blessed in Christ Church, Lali. Then we went and toasted Brigid.

It's snowing in Dublin right now, TW, but it's all melting pretty instantly. It's pretty and novel, but cold.

Hey, no fair!