#Diocese of Down and Connor

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ST MALACHY'S CHURCH IN BELFAST

In the beginning Saint Malachy's was served by priests from St Mary's Church, Belfast until the Parish of Saint Malachy was created in 1866 and Fr Geoffrey Brennan, a native of Kilkenny, was appointed Administrator.

ALFRED STREET – RUSSELL STREET THE BELFAST MOBILE FRIENDLY PHOTO BLOG Saint Malachy’s Church is a Catholic Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is located in Alfred Street, a short distance from Belfast City Hall , though it precedes that building by over 60 years. The Church is the focal point of the local parish community, also Saint Malachy’s, one of the 88 parishes in the Diocese of Down…

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I got so wound up writing how much I agreed, @prismatic-bell, and mentioning enough events that were happening in 2013, that it occurred to me that some of y'all poking around in Tumblr might not remember 2013 too well, what with it being ten years ago. I'm gonna assume that those of you who were under about nine or ten at the time might not remember it viscerally, so I'm linking a bunch of things I mention for further reading if you weren't living in it as a queer person. (Also if you weren't raised rather intensely as an Irish-American person and aren't viscerally familiar with that context, I'm adding some links on that too.)

It's worth noting that "Take Me to Church" was popularized in a viral video of ballet dancer Sergei Polunin interpreting the lyrics (as directed by David LaChapelle). That routine is--"gay and sexual about it" is a really good phrase, especially since Polunin is performing in a pair of tights the same color of his skin, a dance belt, and absolutely nothing else. The choreography emphasized the vulnerability of the lyrics, the importance of sex and love, the pain inflicted by marginalization and homophobia, and the transcendence of queer affirmation among ourselves. I remember it being almost impossible to avoid that video, although I never did--I watched it over and over, transfixed, for weeks. And the thing about that routine is that it draws a lot of its strength from using the dancer to highlight the emotional punches in the lyrics, so you can hardly avoid listening to the lyrics and processing what they mean.

Those lyrics were also unapologetically unflinching in dissecting the pain and ambivalence inflicted by chronic, pervasive homophobia--especially through the Catholic Church. The man is Irish. The Catholic Church is his local religious and moral authority, and it carries a weight there that it does not have in the US. Even writing 20 years after Sinead O' Connor (may her memory be a blessing) famously tore up a photo of the Pope on Saturday Night Live in 1992 to protest Church abuses, the Catholic church casts a long shadow over Ireland. It's all bound up in nationalism and resistance and culture and centuries of English occupation and poverty and the Church providing many social services in times when no one else would, and then using that position to commit atrocities it then immediately tried to deny. (It has taken as much as 20 years to even get an apology.) And of course Ireland was on the front of the wave uncovering abuse within the Church; the Magdalene Laundries had been Found Out starting in 1993, and that particular vein of anger smoldered for a long time on top of the sexual abuse. (There's a Joni Mitchell song about that one, even, the world was watching Ireland so closely in those days.) I don't think there's a nation in the world that is as keenly critical of the Catholic Church as Ireland; it and the US are still the only nations that have dedicated formal governmental inquests into priestly abuses, and quite a few of the dioceses involved in the US were parts of the Irish-American diaspora.

Besides the Catholic Church at the time was directly opposing LGBTQ rights everywhere. Just five years earlier in 2008 the Church and the Knights of Columbus had donated a massive amount to the campaign for California's Prop 8, which banned gay marriage in California--an outcome that felt, at the time, like a blow. If you couldn't keep gay marriage from being explicitly banned in California, what hope was there for anywhere? So Hozier is really staring down that legacy when he's writing these lyrics--and, importantly, he's not focusing on the powderkeg image of the closeted gay priest who molests little boys to express his sexuality. That was pretty much the only context in which gay Catholicism was getting discussed anywhere I could see in 2013. Sure and away that shit wrought so much harm but no one was talking about the chronic damage that comes from being told that you're inherently unclean and sordid.

My lover's the giggle at a funeral. We were born sick--you heard them say it.

I mean, I met a dude in 2012, when we were all freshmen in college, who told me that because of his strong Catholic faith and his gayness, he had chosen to reconcile that by simply remaining celibate forever. And in some religiously Catholic circles that was progressive at the time. The best I was seeing from mainstream Catholic theology was that gays could frame themselves as a lay person called to celibacy while also being openly gay, just as long as they never engaged in any kind of sexual activity with anyone. After all, sex was only acceptable within the bounds of marriage, and that sacrament wasn't open to the gays, so your options were real limited if you wanted to obey the rules. In a very real sense, you were formally treated as if you were an unfortunate perversion of healthy sexuality which you could only make the best of by inventing a celibate calling.

So it is intensely, intensely meaningful that Hozier takes this whole framework of context and association and marginalization and transcends it into a viciously, sickly joyful piece of art that frames queer expression as holiness and the Church as an agent of sickness, of hunger, of pain. He is unsparing in the text as he equates his lover with holiness and ecstasy and life (only then I am human / only then I am clean; I was born sick / but I love it) and the church's teachings with slow poison (a little poison each week), rejection (my church offers me no absolution), and the dull pain of internalized shame.

Offer me that deathless death, o good god! Let me give you my life! Command me to be well!

Again, of course we queers love you, man. We were introduced to you by the lyrics of a piece of art directed towards our very souls, affirming the life-giving connections offered by queer community (through the heavily implied metaphor of sex with the narrator's lover) as wholly human. You started out by emphasizing how much that background radiation can hurt. Your first masterpiece sensation, which brought us to know you, was a delicately crafted powerhouse of validation and joy in a shared, bitter history. It is pain twisted into defiance, loneliness turned into a bond.

No fucking shit that was not a popular sentiment at the time. I was completely stunned and astonished when DOMA went down in 2013 with Windsor--it felt wholly surreal, especially as I'd been in Georgia and Texas where you were lucky if legislation didn't go out of its way to kick you in the nuts on its way by. Kids, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" fic was almost a subgenre in the enormous Stargate: Atlantis fandom at that time; when DADT went down in 2011 as it was winding down, people wrote whole fests specifically considering the characters processing the transition and coming to terms with what it meant.

DADT meant that almost all serving military members who were queer* had to remain at least publicly in the closet, and that if they were found to have been too publicly out--well, they could and often were drummed out of the service for it and lost their careers over it. Again, DADT came down in 2011. You'd get discharged and not honorably, which means you lose all your benefits and employers can see that and wonder why for the rest of your life. It was not fucking great, especially for women--there is an enormous lesbian/bi culture among women in service--but it was still slightly better than before, inasmuch as they were no longer allowed to trigger investigations to drum you out on suspicion of homosexuality just for being inconvenient or too suspiciously gender nonconforming for whatever piece of shit decided they didn't like the look of your face. And that was seen as like, a little outdated, but not the perversion against human rights it feels like today.

Two years before. I think this came down right after Windsor hit the pike. What a year that was. Remember the brief period of heady joy after Obergefell, before Pulse, when we felt for a moment that we were marching along a path to queer acceptance across even and clear ground, and the world was on an uncomplicatedly positive trajectory? Remember optimism? But of course we all had the scars. No one casts off that much explicit shame from our communities that quickly.

In this, one of the great flowerings of transphobia as a moral panic, rising out of previous moral panics centered on homosexuality and gender conformation, it's easy to lose hope and worry that there is no way out. Remembering the visceral context as recently as ten years ago, and considering how much of the landscape has changed, is a useful reality check. We made huge strides back last time, and we'll do it again.

*you actually could be openly trans if you were straight, and there were definitely at least a few openly trans straight women out there exploiting that loophole in protest over the homophobia inherent in the law. My, how times have changed.

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Saint Malachy pictured in a stained glass window, Sligo Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

See Archdiocese of Armagh In office1132–1136/37

Predecessor Celsus Successor Gelasius Orders Consecration 1124

Personal details Born1094 Armagh, Airgíalla, Ireland Died 2 November 1148 Clairvaux, Champagne, France

Previous post(s) Bishop of Down (1124–1148) and Bishop of Connor (1124–1136/37) Abbot of Bangor

Máel Máedóc, whose surname was Ua Morgair, was born in Armagh in 1094. Bernard of Clairvaux describes him as having noble birth.[1] He was baptised Máel Máedóc, meaning 'devotee or servant' of Máedóc (Máedóc of Ferns) which was rendered Malachus in Latin (and subsequently as Malachy in English) and was trained under the famous recluse Imhar O'Hagan, subsequently Abbot of Armagh. Imhar was in sympathy with the aims of those who sought to reform the Irish church, and it was probably through his influence that Malachy became imbued with their principles. After a long course of studies Malachy was ordained priest by Cellach of Armagh (Celsus) in 1119.

Shortly afterwards Cellach made the young priest his vicar. For the next year or two it was Malachy's duty to administer the diocese of Armagh. He established in all the churches the apostolic sanctions and the decrees of the holy fathers, and the customs and practices of the Roman Church. He introduced the Roman method of chanting the services of the canonical hours and instituted a new Confession, Confirmation, the Marriage contract, which those over whom he was placed were either ignorant or negligent.[2] With the consent of Cellach and Imar he went to study under Máel Ísu Ua hAinmere (Malchus, first Bishop of the Norse city of Waterford), who had by this time retired from the archbishopric of Cashel and was settled at Lismore. He spent three years there.

In the book Life of Saint Malachy, his biographer Bernard of Clairvaux says Malachy was distinguished by his meekness, humility, obedience, modesty, and true diligence in his studies. Charles Borromeo praised Malachy for attending to the needy, bringing the holy sacraments to all alike and renewing the fervor of the people in receiving them.[5]

Malachy's feast is celebrated on 3 November, so as not to clash with All Souls Day.[6]

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My giant fic rec list

Here is my ongoing list of fic recs! More added as I read.

* unfinished

Featuring peterick, hankcon, erasermic, leopika, and ineffable husbands

Peterick

 With The Moon In His Arms

Pete is a merman who saves Patrick’s life. 

A Little Infamy

Patrick is a solo artist who's sunk his heart and soul into a second album that's failing to chart. Obviously what he needs to bump up sales and dirty up his nice guy image is a sex scandal. His music label hire amateur porn star and aspiring poet Pete to pose as Patrick's boyfriend and together they make one intimate video destined for infamy on the internet.

Patrick falling for Pete isn't part of the plan.

The Truth About Patrick

Pete Wentz is a fashion mogul with a brand new music label who gets an earful of struggling artist Patrick Stump's demo and wants to sign him. Except when he asks to see a photo of Patrick, Patrick sends him a picture of his hot roommate Mikey Way instead.

An AU based on the movie The Truth About Cats and Dogs.

Anything by SnitchesAndTalkers

Seriously they have so many good fics so I just linked their AO3 but some of my favourites they’ve written are Christmastime In The City, Dead and Dreaming, Pretty In Punk, and The Pros and Cons of Craigslist

I Could Crush You With My Voice

Pete was in an accident at an Arma show that left him totally blind. After four months of moping around his apartment, totally depressed, he opens his window and hears Patrick singing. It's love at first listen.

I Have Forgiven Jesus

In June 1952, Father Patrick Stump is involved in a scandal so great that the Diocese of Chicago has no choice but to send him away in disgrace. He finds himself in the town of Clark, Mississippi, a town not known for its tolerance of anything other than the All American Dream.

Pete never wanted to make the move to Clark but found himself forced by lack of opportunities and the death of his father during the war. Out of work and close to out of hope, he stumbles across a card in the general store, neither he, not the writer of the card aware that what follows will alter the course of their lives irrevocably.

But the smallest towns often have the darkest secrets...

You Know, I Only Wanted Fun

It’s a Hogwarts AU

But There’s No Preparing for This

Out of absolutely everything in the Central Chicago Public Library that Patrick was proud of, the number one thing was the erotica section. Was that a weird thing to be proud of? Possibly. But everyone knows librarians are the weirdest people on the planet.

On the other hand, the one thing Patrick absolutely hated about his job was difficult patrons. And the most difficult patron in the existence of difficult patrons was Pete Wentz, a man who had a big mouth and bad opinions about Patrick’s erotica section. Patrick could happily go the rest of his career without seeing Pete Wentz ever again. Like, ever. He had a loud voice and grating jokes and Patrick hoped he’d stay far, far away this weekend when Central Chicago Public Library played host to Kingston Lewis, the best erotica writer this century.

Hankcon

All The Beds I’ve Made *

Connor, co-owner of a popular coffee shop in Detroit, has been content to bury himself in his business instead of putting himself out there.

Things change when a cantankerous lieutenant becomes a regular.

(Modern Coffee Shop AU)

Bound

Hank is the sole owner, and worker, of a quaint little cafe nestled in a quite coastal village in the far north of the UK. Nine times out of ten the weather is utterly abysmal, rolling grey clouds and rain showers most days, and his shop is hidden down a narrow cobbled back alley, but he’s somewhat of a local legend for his comfort food.

It’s during one such grim, dreary day when Connor stumbles into his cafe, and his life.

Eighteen Wheels on an Uphill Climb

Hank is going to die. He’s going to die right here in Kentucky, 53 years old, halfway to broke, and tragically sober. Survived only by a nine-year-old St. Bernard and the 31-year-old twink who delivered the fatal blow.

Erasermic

How To Take Care Of A Mummy? *

Present Mic is being a personal nurse for an injured Aizawa.

Guess the rest...

Dragon Fruit 

Being a dragon slayer is certainly a lonely and dangerous job, but someone has to do it, and Shouta Aizawa is that someone. He is a member of the Aizawa clan, after all. The job was supposed to be routine, just another dragon to kill to protect a nearby village, but the slayer's life changes forever when he meets Hizashi Yamada, a bard cursed to turn into a dragon whenever the sun rises. Really, there's only one glaring issue: Aizawa can't stand bards.

Hizashi doesn't deserve this curse - at least he thinks he doesn't. How's he supposed to live out a normal life of playing music and seducing women when he has horns and a tail? And that's only during the night! Nevertheless, he's survived with this curse for three years now, but his time's running out. Mating season is fast approaching and if he isn't cured by spring, he'll be completely consumed by the curse. His only hope is Shouta Aizawa, the same man who has promised to destroy him should they fail. Can the two really work together and find the cure when they can't even get along, or is Hizashi doomed to succumb to the dragon's curse?

Leopika

Event Horizons series *

Living in New York City is tough for anyone, and it’s no different for Leorio Paladiknight. He’s a medical school dropout, he’s up to his ears in debt, and his best friend Pietro has been in the hospital for months. But when he meets a feisty blond barista named Kurapika on a beautiful spring afternoon, his life takes an unexpected turn. 

It’s Gonna Be a Bumpy Ride *

Leorio hated his cousin, Ging. He was a failure of a dad and couldn’t be bothered to watch his own kid for more than three minutes. It was Leorio’s turn to watch the kid now and it wasn’t like he was going to say no. Gon had no where else to go. He could at least let the teen bum on his couch for a few days.

He did not anticipate Gon’s incredible ability to talk to anyone, including his strange and stoic neighbor with the creepy quiet kid. He could have done with out the crazy clown and the gang drama but, hey, anything for family. (Plus that neighbor is cute when he’s not contemplating murderous revenge.)

The Odd Job

Amateur ghost hunter, Leorio Paladiknight, seems to put himself in quite a lot of spiritual predicaments. This leaves him at the mercy of a surly occult shop owner who might have more than just a few tricks up his sleeve.

Ineffable Husbands

Break my Cage and Spread my Wings *

Everyone called the Titanic the 'Ship of Dreams', but for Aziraphale, it was the ship of nightmares, carrying her away from her home in England, and her dreams of freedom, and towards the bleak future of her arranged marriage in America. The only spark of light in the darkness is her new and tentative friendship with the boldly intimate Crowley. 

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Cemetery arson attack an inexcusable violation of burial sanctuary says priest

THE Catholic Church has said it will review security at Milltown Cemetery after vandals set fire to the gates in a “shocking” attack.  The front gates of Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast, which date back to 1896. The front gates at the West Belfast cemetery, which dates back to 1896, were set alight on Friday night after traffic cones and a wheelie bin were placed behind them and set on fire by…

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Assumption <b>Grammar</b> principal quashes rumours of merger

In a statement, CCMS said that as part of consultations on the proposed school merger in Downpatrick they and trustees of the Down and Connor diocese had briefed trustees from Assumption Grammar and the Dromore diocese on the plans. But they said that no similar proposals had been discussed ... http://ift.tt/2IEi1Q9

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The Diocese of Down and Connor has also advised priests to disinfect their hands before they distribute Holy Communion. from BBC News - Home http://ift.tt/2ABuHSD

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The Foundation is undertaking a tidy up of our book storage in Belfast. As a result we are holding another massive warehouse sale.

The sale will end on 9th February so please act quickly to take advantage of these incredible prices.

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