Monday, June 22, 2015

News Flash! Two Easters Celebrated at Kildare, Says Bethu Brigte!


from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
An interesting little tidbit, this.
I noticed in rerereading Bethu Brigte the other day (The Irish Life of Saint Brigit--so called because it was written in Irish, not Latin) that Bishop Mel, and therefore his flock, was celebrating both Easters. 
"24 - On the following day, Monday, Mel came to Brigit to preach and say Mass for her between the two Easters."
Cool!
Bethu Brigte was written down in the Book of Leinster c.800–850 CE--nearly two hundred years after the Synod of Whitby. It was at Whitby that King Oswiu ruled Northumbria would go with the Romans on the date of Easter and on monastic tonsures, rather than the Irish monastic practices followed at Iona, etc. (Synod of Whitby, 664 CE).
According to Wikipedia The Infallible (and allegedly to Haddan and Stubbs), South Ireland adopted the Roman dates circa 626-8 and North Ireland in 692. This means that Kildare itself had likely been celebrating Easter on the Roman date since a hundred years or so after St Brigit's death, and long before the BB was written. Which gives a wonderful sense of verisimilitude to the detail, that at one time, in order to hedge (if you'll pardon the pun) their bets, monasteries such as Kildare were celebrating not one nor the other, but both.
You can find the Bethu Brigte here:


Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Brighid: Song by CoolMasala



I can't find out much about coolMasala, the band which produced this song, but follow this link for the song itself and several others on their AllMusic page. I found it on Miriam Carl Bölük's YouTube channel, with the credits she supplied below. All I can tell you is that they are from Berlin, and that they do indeed look cool:



Miriam, by the way, is one of the members of this interesting band. For more photos, check out their MySpace page.

Published on 1 Feb 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-Sp94S6Mk#t=75

photographs 
by Christopher Daams http://www.fotocommunity.de/fotograf/...,
paintings 
by Ayrtha http://ayrtha.com/portfolio,
by Wendy Andrew http://www.paintingdreams.co.uk
and by Ruth Sanderson http://www.ruthsanderson.com
lyrics 
by Jodine Cognato Turner http://jodineturner.com

background candles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BKfM... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFw5K...