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Reflections on Holy Week

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 Palm Sunday: Palm Branches Wave, will the Rocks cry Out? The children laugh, and the palm branches wave. Welcoming the humble Leader into the city gates. The untamed colt lets the Creator ride, undaunted by the praises sung. The priests are shocked, why would this Man let them praise Him such? Yet the Prince of Peace knows well the Truth, for if the people would not... The very Rocks of the Land would Praise He who was the Living Word, through whom all that exists was spoken into being. Little did the people know, why the Lamb had come... Or how the World would change in just a few days time... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Holy Monday:  No Figs to Eat The Savior hungers, a fig tree to see. No figs to eat, the fig tree now cursed. A temple to clean up... Gone with the money changers... Lamb sellers... Dove and Pigeon hawkers... A house of prayer to restore... If only for a short time... The fig tree has died... Soon to will the Me...

Saint Sheela's Day - Naomh Sheela bean chéile Padraig

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Naohm Sheela Born: 390 Died:  469 Skills: Midwife to midwives, healer, herbalist, protector of nature Symbols: Morart and Pestals, Babies, Shamrocks, Herbs,  Springtime, and Sheela na Gigs Celebrated on her "Death Day" - March 18th, 469AD Sheela, wife of Maewyn Succat Padraig, mother of Bennen, and the two other sons, and 5 or 6 daughters, though these were often later called sisters/brothers of Patrick, as "bishops didn't marry" in later traditions.  She was native-born Irish, and her son Bennen, was the first Native Born Irish leader of Faith.  It is debated as to whether they had been first married when Maewyn was a slave, or after his return, though most traditions have it while he was a slave, with Bennen being born just after his escape, whom he met 8 years later after his return. (Earlier traditions have Maewyn gone from Ireland only a short 7 to 8 years.) Sheela herself was a skilled midwife, healer, and "shepherdess" to her people.  It is said...

Saint Patrick's Day - Naomh Maewyn Succat Padraig na hÉireann

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Naomh Maewyn Succat Padraig Born: 385 AD Died: 461 AD Skills: Shepherd, Pastor, Poet, Leader, Peacemaker Symbols: Shamrocks, Bells, Shepherd Staff, Celtic Crosses, Red Deer, White Dragons Celebrated on his "Death Day" - March 17th, 46IAD Born Maewyn Succat Padraig meaning "the crying white dragon", to the Decon Calpurnius and his wife, Conchesse, somewhere within Romano-Britonic Waels or Southern Scotland, of Romano-Britonic  (Celtic Britons) stock.  He was the grandson of the priest Potius, and some sort of kin to Martin of Tours.   Maewyn married the native Irish woman, Sheela, while still a slave, and upon his return to Ireland would discover a son, Brennen, the foster-son of Sesenen, who would become heir to his legacy.  He and Sheela would go on to have two other sons, and 5 or 6 daughters, though these were often later called sisters/brothers of Patrick, as "bishops didn't marry" in later traditions. Maewyn would first go to Ireland as a slave a...