CHRISTMAS IS FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY

Christmas is for friends and family,

But by no means exclusively

After all the Three Wise Men

Were strangers in Bethlehem 

MY LOVE ASSENDED

 

My love ascended

To our Father’s care

Silently rising

On heavens stair

Sent on her way by

My whispered prayer

SENT FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE

Sent from the heavens above

An unseen arbiter of love

To help the lovers choose

And with introductions done

The angel ascends

GLAD SATURDAY

 

Glad Saturday

Better known as

Holy Saturday

Is not a Mass

But a time of

Prayer and fasting

And meditating on Christ’s

Passion and Death

His Descent into Hell

And his Resurrection

TGIGF

 

We celebrate Good Friday

And thank God reverently

For our saviour’s sacrifice

Thank God It's Good Friday

THE LONG FRIDAY

 

The Long Friday

Or Good Friday

Marks the day

The Temple Guards

Aided by the Judas kiss

Arrested Jesus

At Gethsemane

Also his interrogation

By High Priest Caiaphas

And the Sanhedrin

Who condemned him to death

Before conveying him before

The Roman governor

Pontius Pilate

Who with reluctance

Ordered his crucifixion

At the place of the Skull

SAD THURSDAY

 

Sad Thursday

Is better known as

Maundy Thursday

The sixth day of Holy week

Which remembers the Maundy

The day when Jesus

Washed the feet of his disciples

As well as the last supper

On the feast of Passover

And marks the start

Of the Easter Triduum,

That commemorates

The passion, death,

And resurrection of Christ

JOYFUL THURSDAY

 

Joyful Thursday

Is better known as

Maundy Thursday

The sixth day of Holy week

Which remembers the Maundy

The day when Jesus

Washed the feet of his disciples

As well as the last supper

On the feast of Passover

And marks the start

Of the Easter Triduum,

That commemorates

The passion, death,

And resurrection of Christ

BLOODY THURSDAY

 

Bloody Thursday

Is better known as

Maundy Thursday

The sixth day of Holy week

Which remembers the Maundy

The day when Jesus

Washed the feet of his disciples

As well as the last supper

On the feast of Passover

And marks the start

Of the Easter Triduum,

That commemorates

The passion, death,

And resurrection of Christ

SORROWFUL WEDNESDAY

 

Ashes are placed on the heads

Of worshipers on Ash Wednesday,

Either by being sprinkled or

More often the traditional way

By being marked as a visible cross

On their foreheads on the day

SAINT DAVID

 

Saint David was born in the 5th century

A scion of the royal house of Ceredigion,

And founded a Celtic Monastic order,

At Glyn Rhosyn, the Vale of Roses,

Which became an important Christian shrine

Where St David's Cathedral stands today

BLOODY TUESDAY

 

Since before the Christian era

Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day

Was celebrated far and wide

And was originally a pagan holiday

 

Changing seasons was a struggle

Between Jarilo the God of brightness

Vegetation, fertility and springtime

And the evil spirits of cold and darkness

 

So they had to help the God Jarilo

And victory meant spring had begun

So they cooked and ate pancakes

Hot and round symbolizing the sun

MERRY MONDAY

 

Part of the traditional English Shrovetide

Falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday

Merry Monday, is a Christian observance

Which more importantly precedes Pancake Day

ROSE MONDAY

 

Part of the traditional English Shrovetide

Falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday

Rose Monday, is a Christian observance

Which more importantly precedes Pancake Day

SHROVE MONDAY

 

Part of the traditional English Shrovetide

Falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday

Shrove Monday, is a Christian observance

Which more importantly precedes Pancake Day

HALL MONDAY

 

Hall Monday or Shrove Monday evening

Was a time for boys to commit petty crime

Now we don’t have it on one special night

Instead now it appears to happen all the time

BLACK MONDAY

 

Black Monday or Shrove Monday evening

Was a time for boys to commit petty crime

Now we don’t have it on one special night

Instead now it appears to happen all the time

COLLOPY MONDAY

 

The third day of Shrovetide,

Once known as Collopy Monday,

Was named after Collops of bacon

A traditional dish of the day

Which was served with eggs.

It’s the forgotten Shrove Monday

THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

 

Candlemas Day,

The festival of lights

40 days after Epiphany

Is celebrated to mark

The Presentation of Christ

In The Temple,

THE FEAST DAY OF SAINT BRIGIT

 

The feast day of Saint Brigit

Is an Irish National Day

When the Irish people

Celebrate Saint Brigit's Day