Rob Tú Mo Bhoile

Out here praying and serving Christ. Raid parties don't interract.

[artofthedarkages]

Gospels, MS 58, Trinity College Dublin

[glumshoe]

but maybe I WANT to walk on my knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Tá brón orm má tá sé seo ag cur tú ar an bhfód, mura bhfuil Gaeilge agat. Ach is maith liom do chuid oibre anseo!

Tapadh leibh!

[finnlongman]

"may this great plague pass by me and my friends, and restore us once more to joy and gladness"

Feeling a powerful kinship with this scribe from 1350 today.

[finnlongman]

OTD (Christmas Eve), 670 years ago

[girderednerve]

[For example, a note on p. 36 gives the text a definite fourteenth-century date and a Mac Aodhagain provenance to this manuscript:

It is one thousand three hundred and fifty years tonight since Jesus Christ was born, and in the second year of the coming of the plague to Ireland was this written and I myself am full twenty one years old....and let every reader in pity recite a ‘pater’ for my soul. It is Christmas Eve tonight, and under the protection of the King of Heaven and earth I am on this Eve tonight. May the end of my life be holy and may this great plague pass by me and my friends, and restore us once more to joy and gladness. Amen. Pater Noster. Aed, Mac Concubair mac Gilla na Naem, Mic Duinnslebe Mic Aodhagain wrote this on his father’s book the year of the great plague.

The following year he wrote at the top of the same page:

It is just a year tonight since I wrote the lines on the margin below; and, if it be God’s will, may I reach the anniversary of this night many times. Amen. Pater Noster.

Translation by R.I. Best.]

[finnlongman]

Thank you for transcribing the image! I always forget to do that.

[finnlongman]

It is just a year tonight since I shared this... may we reach the anniversary of this night many times.

[english-history-trip]

From MS 1316, Trinity College Dublin:

You can see Aodh Mac Aodhagáin's notes at the top and bottom of the page.

[isabelofwraithmarsh]

Medieval Irish Cat Names

~Pangur Bán - A white cat belonging to a monk in the famous 9th century poem of the same name. 

~ Breone - “Little Flame”, acc. Kelly. Murray suggests that it’s closer to “Meone”, possibly representing the purring of the cat. Responsible for “purring and protecting”. 

~ Glas Nenta - “Nettle-Green” 

~ Meone - “Little Meow”. Called in the text, “A mighty cat that mews.” Pantry cat. 

~ Crúibne - “Little paws” (Alt. “Little Claws”). A cat that guarded the barn, mill, and drying-kiln.

~ Rincne - POSSIBLY “Spear”, Kelly wasn’t sure on that one. Murray suggests it might come from “tears, mangles.” It referred to a child’s cat. Both kittens and dogs are referenced among common children’s playthings.

~ Folum - A cat who herded cattle. 

~ Íach - Suggested by Murray to have something to do with mousing. 

~Baircne - Kelly suggests it’s a basket for women’s cats, Murray believes that it’s a type of cat, specifically those used for women, that were, to quote the original texts, “On a pillow beside women always.”

With the exception of “Pangur Bán”, all names refer to specific types or classifications of cat that would have been found in the medieval Irish world, but, at the same time, I personally think that they would make excellent names. All references taken from Fergus Kelly’s “Early Irish Farming” and Kevin Murray’s article, “Catṡlechta and Other Medieval Legal Material Relating to Cats”. Alternative spellings exist across the various texts, when in doubt, I used the ones that seemed most standard. 

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Bless the ground so the snakes stop biting people.

[apenitentialprayer]

A 7th Century Irish Catholic Creed

Our God is the God of all men, the God of heaven and earth, of the sea and the rivers, God of the sun and the moon and all the stars, the God of high mountains and low valleys; God above heaven and in heaven and below heaven, He has His dwelling in heaven and earth and sea and in everything that is in them. He breathes in all things, makes all things live, surpasses all things, supports all things; He illumines the light of the sun, He consolidates the light of the night and the stars, He has made wells in dry earth and dry islands in the sea and stars for the service of major lights. He has a Son, coeternal with Him, similar to Him; the Son is not younger than the Father, nor is the Father older than the Son, and the Holy Spirit breathes in them; the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are not separate.

Bishop Tírechán, Collectanea (26:8-11)

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Some of you are unrepentant warmongers and it shows.

St. Patrick’s Letter to Coroticus. More or less. (via oldirishmonasticsuggestions)

[terpsikeraunos]

who hasn’t fantasized about illuminating manuscripts by candlelight in a medieval scriptorium tbh

[eadfrith]

Carpet page from The Lindisfarne Gospels introducing the Gospel of Matthew - made for “God and St Cuthbert”  folio 26v

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Irish Missionary Tells You To Stop Eating People Who Swim In The Loch (You’re Nessie) [ASMR]

[the-busy-ghost]

Nessie says she tries to avoid eating people during Lent but since nobody can agree on the correct date of Easter she’s unclear as to when that is. Can you help?

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

In theory, on this blog we go by the Celtic Rite.

But even so, has Nessie considered........ not eating people at any point in the liturgical year?

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Good morning to hermits, navigators, women raised by cows, runaway swineherds, vigilante beekeepers, white cows with red ears, exiled penitents, and the Loch Ness Monster.

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Treat confession as a private matter. 

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Respect the seal of confession.

[sonia-marmeladova]

gang, you ever think about becoming a monastic to escape the world?

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Chastise your cat for walking all over your manuscript.

[oldirishmonasticsuggestions]

Write in prose.