San Padraig

 This St Patrick's Day,. May God keep the Irish holy and free, wise enough to reject the scourge of abortion which has afflicted this country. May St Patrick intercede to protect his people from domination from European Union which seeks to impose the Culture of Death. Support Youth Defence, the Irish Pro-life Organization which fights to keep Ireland abortion-free. They are on Life on the Rock this week on EWTN. 


My Corned Beef is on the boil, my Irish Soda Bread is filling the house with its fragrance as it rises in my oven, and my little girl is enjoying our CCC video, "Patrick, Shepherd of the Emerald Isle". Buy it here. 
Listen to Ag Criost an Siol and see if you agree about its rare beauty. 
Even before I saw this translation, I knew this was a song of longing for intimacy with Christ in Heaven. It's a blessing to be a daughter of St Patrick. My Grandma Helen Heslin is from Mohill, Co. Leitrim. From Grams did I inherit a passion about music, poetry and the Catholic faith.May I be worthy of the fine legacy she and my mother left me. 

Te mor gra, Grams, and Mom, I'll see you in the Paradise of Graces.

Ag Criost an Siol
Ag Críost an síol

Ag Críost an fómhar

I n-iothalainn dégo dtugtar sinn

Christ's is the Seed

Christ's is the Harvest

Into God's barn

May we be brought.

Ag Críost an mhuir

Ag Críost an t-iasc

i liontaibh dégo gcastar sinn

Christ's is the sea

Christ's is the fish

In the nets of God

May we be caught.

O fhás go haois is ó aois go básdo

dhá láimh a Críostanall tharainn

From Birth to age

and from age to death,

May your two arms,

O Christ, be around us.

O bhás go críochní

críoch ach ath-fhá

From Death to the end

Not the end but a rebirth,

I bPárrthas na

nGrást go rabhaimíd

In the Paradise of Graces

May we be.