As this is the octave day of the feast, we bid farewell to the festival of Saint Colum Cille with a farewell prayer from our Irish Redemptorist:
OUR FAREWELL PRAYER.
May his children hear his voice and follow in his steps.
May we love this loving Saint, and invoke him in our
prayers. May his name be given to our Irish children
that he may protect them. May his Feast Day, the Ninth
of June, be kept holy throughout the Land — a day of prayer
and supplication for Ireland and Scotland, a day of rejoicing
for our young people in University and College, and in
every one of Ireland’s schools. —
May school and pulpit celebrate each year the glories
of St. Columcille’s life. May Ireland’s own Music and
Language and Literature be used to praise and glorify
him. May Ireland’s new Bards awake and sing the glories
of their own Columcille.
Columcille is dead, but may Ireland’s love for him never
die, and may his protection never fail us; may his memory
never perish, nor his spirit depart from our Land! Amen!
Amen!
The Life of Saint Columcille in In Irish and English by a Redemptorist Father (Dublin, 1907), 121.
Content Copyright © Trias Thaumaturga 2012-2017. All rights reserved.
The Life of Saint Columcille in In Irish and English by a Redemptorist Father (Dublin, 1907), 121.
Content Copyright © Trias Thaumaturga 2012-2017. All rights reserved.
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