Irish blessing

[CelticAingeal]

Hi Everyone!!  

I'm new to the board and think this is a great section.  M'Grandfather was born in county Antrim, Northern Ireland.  I couldn't resist adding an Irish blessing that is dear to m'heart.  I love to study 'everything' about the Celts and came across this blessing in a book by John O'Donohue.

Beannacht
On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.

And when your eyes freeze behind the gray window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colors, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays in the curach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you, may there come across the waters a path of yellow moonlight to bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow wind work these words of love around you, an invisible cloak to mind your life.

[MDF3530]

Here's a good Irish blessing I found:

May the Lord keep you in His hand
And never close His fist too tight.

[maggiemahone1]

Quote (MDF3530 @ May 17 2003,2:36)

Here's a good Irish blessing I found: May the Lord keep you in His hand And never close His fist too tight.

OUCH!!!

maggiemahone1

[Jimmy Carbomb]

The one that we all use, in our group of Hooligans:

Here's to you,
Here's to me,
And even if we disagree
May you have the courage to know that I'M RIGHT.

[maggiemahone1]

Quote (Gaelic Bread @ May 17 2003,5:23)

The one that we all use, in our group of Hooligans: Here's to you, Here's to me, And even if we disagree May you have the courage to know that I'M RIGHT.

I liked that one, Gaelic Bread.  I'll use that one on my husband.

maggiemahone1

[MDF3530]

Neither Irish nor a blessing but this has always been a part of our family...

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
The Courage to change
the things I can,
And the Wisdom to know the difference.

It has helped me keep my cool too many times to count...

This post has been edited by MDF3530 on 27-May-2003, 04:56 PM

[brettzky42]

Here's one of my favorites:

May the roof above us never fall in,
and may we friends gathered below never fall out.

[CelticAingeal]

Here's a couple.....

'As ye slide down the Bannister of Life,
May the Splinters never point the wrong way'


'Tis better to buy a small bouquet,
And give to your friend this very day,
Then a bushel of roses white and red,
To lay on his coffin after he's dead'

[Jimmy Carbomb]

A good Irish man, John O'Reilly, met regularly with his toastmasters club. One evening they were hitting the Guinness Stout and having a contest at who could make the best toast.

John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life between the legs of me wife!"

That won him the top prize for the best toast of the night! He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the best toast of the night."

She said, "Aye, what was your toast?"
John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life sitting in church beside me wife." "Oh that is very nice indeed, John!", Mary said.

The next day Mary ran into one of John's toasting buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, "John won the prize the other night with a toast about you Mary."

She said, "Aye and I was a bit surprised meself! You know, he's only been there twice! Once he fell asleep and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come!"

[pawnman]

GB: my buddies use this variation. I had never heard it before. It helps if you yell screw you, or possibly replace it with a word that belongs over in the pub...

Here's to you and here's to me
May good friends we always be
And if we ever disagree
SCREW YOU!
Here's to me!

[Roisin-Teagan]

Irish Blessing:

May your glass be ever full.

May the roof over your head be always strong.

And may you be in heaven half an hour...Before the Devil knows you're dead.


Another Irish Blessing:

May Your Home Always Be Too Small To Hold All Of Your Friends.


A Quote:

I am of Ireland
And of the holy land of Ireland
Good sir I pray of ye
For saintly charity
Come dance with me
In Ireland
Anonymous 14th-century Irish poet

[Roisin-Teagan]

One More Blessing:

May you have warm words
on a cold evening,

A full moon on a dark night,

And the road downhill all the way to your door.

Gaelic Prayer:

Deep peace of the
running waves to you.
Deep peace of the
flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the
smiling stars to you.
Deep peace of the
quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the
watching shepherds to you.
Deep peace of the
Son of Peace to you.

[Richard Bercot]

This was taken from "THE BIG LITTLE BOOK OF IRISH WIT & WISDOM" Black Dog & Leventhal publishers, New York

May you have warm words
on a cold evening,
A full moon
on a dark night,
And the road downhill
all the way to your door.

[Richard Bercot]

This was taken from "THE BIG LITTLE BOOK OF IRISH WIT & WISDOM" Black Dog & Leventhal publishers, New York

May there be fox on your fishing-hook
And a hare on your bait
And may you kill no fish
Until St. Brigid's Day.

[Richard Bercot]

"THE BIG LITTLE BOOK OF IRISH WIT & WISDOM" Black Dog & Leventhal publishers, New York

Here's to you and yours
and to mine and ours,
And if mine and ours
ever come across you and yours,
I hope you and yours
will do as much for mine and ours,
As mine and ours
have done for you and yours!