tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post2195868881768720590..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Celtic?Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-11967085174896026502015-10-28T17:20:34.950+00:002015-10-28T17:20:34.950+00:00It's not Celtic if it doesn't involve walk...It's not Celtic if it doesn't involve walking barefoot all night on cold rocks.Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2243519495887577952015-10-26T02:52:26.286+00:002015-10-26T02:52:26.286+00:00I've always thought that the lineage of my Wat...I've always thought that the lineage of my Waterford-based maternal line and my Finland/Oslo based paternal line were very similar. Although all would insist that we were not in any way related to the Swedes, or the British. (These are now semi-humorous family stories since my parents are no longer here to correct us if we differ...)Mary Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177771196355631149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-50048351995003872562015-10-25T19:25:13.666+00:002015-10-25T19:25:13.666+00:00fenfrk said: "His resulted in the predictable...fenfrk said: "His resulted in the predictable Irish 'lines', and ours came out matching 75% of Somalian males, not his."<br /><br />Assuming your DNA test was done correctly, your test has revealed what is euphemistically known in genetic studies as "a non-paternity event." Get a second sample and test again to be sure. If you get the same results, you'll know Confiteborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951083063448447552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60514237284638890352015-10-25T06:11:04.581+00:002015-10-25T06:11:04.581+00:00OK, scratch " Since Britain and Ireland were ...OK, scratch " Since Britain and Ireland were geographical and cultural backwaters during the early Middle Ages, . . . ." "Backwaters" is a pejorative and not really accurate term. I was referring to their relative remoteness or isolation from the rest of Europe for that general period of time, and how to helped certain older Catholic customs and disciplines to hold on longerConfiteborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951083063448447552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71221777058117418582015-10-24T22:10:03.002+01:002015-10-24T22:10:03.002+01:00Haha, that's great Amateur Brain Surgeon. Her...Haha, that's great Amateur Brain Surgeon. Here's a mystery in our own family. My cousin is a genealogist, who has well documented the family's link to Cork, indeed, we still have family there. He had a DNA comparison done between my brother's son and his own DNA. We should have matched. His resulted in the predictable Irish "lines", and ours came out matching 75% ofEvangelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12795851343763536594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49261562800292221182015-10-24T15:15:38.811+01:002015-10-24T15:15:38.811+01:00Dear Fenfrk. One of the boasts of ABS' family ...Dear Fenfrk. One of the boasts of ABS' family is that we had ancestors so incorrigible they were expelled from County Limerick and settled in County Cork and ABS has a daughter who just returned from a Honeymoon in Cork and she presented me with a T shirt that had that image on it.<br /><br />As an aside, years ago the family went to confession in Bar Harbor, Maine that had a visiting Irish Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56132114322385161622015-10-23T22:08:29.011+01:002015-10-23T22:08:29.011+01:00This is very close to my heart Father, being a Low...This is very close to my heart Father, being a Lowland Scot of a military family, trews only!<br /><br />My Dad and uncles regarded blokes in short English designed and made skirts with some reservation. <br /><br />I understand the term "celtic" was Roman and referred to Alpine Germanic people.<br /><br />Another reason to keep clear of it!Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-57617975410410912082015-10-23T19:33:50.356+01:002015-10-23T19:33:50.356+01:00Were the Galatians part of the "Celtic Church...Were the Galatians part of the "Celtic Church"? If not, why not?<br /><br />"Celtic Church" hype sounds to me suspiciously like an excuse for anti-Romanism.FrB.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12723185012378059406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-40855424518663167202015-10-23T19:22:12.829+01:002015-10-23T19:22:12.829+01:00Amateur Brain Surgeon, I must ask, since I'm a...Amateur Brain Surgeon, I must ask, since I'm an American whose grandfather was born in Cork. Can you please explain why you said that? Is it just you love Cork? If so, why? I'm dying to know. Thank you in advance. Evangelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12795851343763536594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-69103015563095208292015-10-23T17:42:05.753+01:002015-10-23T17:42:05.753+01:00If one is wearing a sweater with County Cork ident...If one is wearing a sweater with County Cork identified as such in one color and the rest of Ireland in another color identified as, Not Cork, one can identify as a CeltMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84353723563546771822015-10-23T17:37:54.340+01:002015-10-23T17:37:54.340+01:00And I am sure the Celtic penitentials and monastic...And I am sure the Celtic penitentials and monastic rules would also provide interesting reading for those into Celtic spirituality.Fr. Michael LaRuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04824777871450270095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-91272981680303159792015-10-23T15:19:25.910+01:002015-10-23T15:19:25.910+01:00Well said father! The Church in early Irish saw it...Well said father! The Church in early Irish saw itself as under Rome. True, for some time they differed from Rome in their adherence to an outdated method for the calculation of Easter - deploying an 84 year cycle. This eccentric practice ceased in the southern part of Ireland in the 630s, and was completely abandoned by the last outpost, Iona, in 716. The Irish who felt they were upholding a Paulusmaximushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14183126491509874339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35559822619767818542015-10-23T12:12:53.620+01:002015-10-23T12:12:53.620+01:00Books have nothing on the internet when it comes t...Books have nothing on the internet when it comes to wildness and confusion about Celtic spirituality and Celtic religions! I recall doing some trawling a few years ago in the course of Open University study on the Roman Empire and its gods, and was amazed at the weird and wonderful statements that abound.<br /><br />(To be fair to the OU, I should make it clear that the courses I have taken Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-36632460835449111312015-10-23T10:50:48.236+01:002015-10-23T10:50:48.236+01:00If you are correct and there was no such thing as ...If you are correct and there was no such thing as a "Celtic Church", why, then, was there any need for a Synod of Whitby in 664?Hugh McLoughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01544142376176954474noreply@blogger.com