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[folliesandfolderols]

Writing prompts day 85-86

From this prompt list. If you’ve read this far, I’m not sure you need any explanation, but the short version is I hadn’t written any fiction since 2019, I set a goal to write at least 150 words/day in 2024, and this list was my way to restart. Also I abruptly decided on day 2 I would write an entire Tim/Damian story connecting all the prompts, because I am Good at Judging My Limits. /sarcasm Anyway, I finished the rough draft a while ago and am now unlocking the old entries as I edit.

Read from the beginning here, or on ao3 here.

Day 84 here

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37. “Now, why don’t we teach you a lesson?”

122. “Let’s take it back to my place.”

***

Damian didn't come over that night, though he did text to ask how patrol had gone. Sort of. The text message actually read, I see no injuries on the notes for tonight so I assume you are well. But it came down to the same thing. Tim replied with You assume correctly, and even used a period for good measure. Damian liked the message. Tim fell asleep with a smile on his face.

Jason returned to town the following day, exhausted and grumpy from being on the road, if his video message announcing his arrival were anything to judge by. The three of them agreed to meet at Tim's that night.

“Somebody or some group is running them both,” Jason announced before he'd even sat down in the living room. 

Damian and Tim exchanged a glance, but Tim was the one who replied. “We thought the same thing. Do you have any ideas about who it could be?”

Jason shrugged. “If we're just guessing at names, maybe Black Mask? He likes to get his hands filthy. Or Falcone, he's done it before and he might like the irony of getting the Irish Mob and Bratva under the Mafia banner without either side knowing it.” 

Damian’s pensive frown deepened as he clicked through the documents Jason had shared with him and Tim. “I don't care for guessing games. Too inefficient. We need to interrupt a transport between an entry point and a distribution center here in town, or Metropolis, so we can question our way to the higher-ups.”

“In the past, the harbor shipping containers have been a good place to watch,” Tim offered. “We could split up the next time all three of us are unscheduled and keep an eye out.”

Jason nodded. "I'm all for that. Is there a way we could talk to one of the victims who's here in town, though? Without letting the people running the show know we're this close? I'm sure they're getting rumors of shit going bad in the western parts of the operation, but no one's going to be talking about it with the bosses here if they know what's good for them."

Tim sat up straighter as an idea occurred. "There was one woman who I met the night I—" A sudden sensory memory assailed him: Damian's hands warm on his thighs as he lifted Tim against the closet wall, the embroidery on his suit smooth against Tim's palms. He swallowed and fixed his gaze on his screen. "The night I went to the opera, one of the escorts with Waters seemed to know I was there for another reason. She saw me heading to his office but, judging by the lack of follow-up, I'm guessing she didn't say anything to him. And she did something to the bug I planted on her to stop it from working, so she's pretty savvy. If we can arrange a meeting with her, then she might be willing to give us info."

Damian, apparently unaffected by any flashbacks, rubbed his chin, considering it. "So, catch her while she's out during the day?"

Jason shook his head. "Too risky. Someone might see.”

Damian shrugged. “In that case, I believe it will be more effective if we use our civilian personas to make contact. Perhaps one of us might arrange a date with her."

"It can't be me." Tim twisted his mouth in regret. "Me making contact with her again will make her suspicious if she isn't ready to talk."

"And I'm too officially dead to make the date worthwhile to anyone," Jason said.

They turned their gazes to Damian. He only made them wait for a moment before sighing deeply. "All right. Drake, should I use you as my referral when I contact Waters?"

***

Tim sat at home, watching Damian set up his phone as a surveillance camera in the lounge where he was meeting Katarina. There were also actual cameras which they were piggybacking on, of course, but the phone would give the best point of view. Jason had made the drive to Metropolis to provide closer oversight and backup. Tim was up for patrol, so he would have to watch piecemeal from afar.

"This place is too fucking loud," Jason grumbled from the van where he was sitting.

"Indeed," Damian agreed, pretending to be talking on speaker the way a true douchebag would. "It will be difficult to catch audio without a great deal of filtering the background music and conversation. Clearly Waters wants me to be seen with her. This place is . . . popular." He said the last word in the same tone most people would have used for "a garbage heap."

"Well, I'm guessing it makes it easier to blackmail some targets if they've been seen publicly with the sex workers," Tim said.

Jason's tone sharpened. "Target's approaching. Entering through the front door. Must be a regular. The bouncer didn't even give her a second glance when she went past the line."

"We should look into who owns this place, then." Tim called up the superficial information and started following the names.

The angle of the video feed from Damian's phone swooped and settled again as he swiftly put it into a place better suited to capture Katarina's face. He leaned back, arms spread across the leather back of the half-circle booth in the center of the lounge to which the hostess had instantly directed him. Everyone close to Gotham wanted the reclusive Wayne heir to be seen at their place, even in Metropolis. (Never mind that all of them were technically Wayne heirs, as some excruciating conversations with Bruce's attorneys had made clear. The only one the reporters seemed to want to bother without an appointment was Damian, which was a blessing most of the time for the rest of them.)

Katarina's arrival seemed to be heralded by a surge in the volume of the music, which rendered her greeting as she approached Damian inaudible. Tim frowned and adjusted what he could, but the audio would need considerable cleaning up after tonight if they were going to use any of it.

He had to admit to himself that he was impressed by Damian's acting. The kid was good—body relaxed and welcoming, but confident in the entitled way expected of a man who'd never not been rich and indulged. They were talking, faces betraying only idle interest in one another, but their words remained obscured. When Katarina started moving in closer, Damian captured her hand and raised it to his lips, eyes sparkling wickedly over her knuckles. She laughed, clearly charmed, or at least engaged enough to pretend she was.

Abruptly, Tim realized his heart was hammering. Huh.

With a tiny tug, Damian offset Katarina's balance so that she draped gracefully over his lap and torso with a startled exclamation that didn't sound upset. Instead of chastising him playfully the way Tim expected, she snuggled up closer and let one slender arm wind its way around Damian's shoulders. Damian gave her a lazy grin and traced the line of her dress's zipper down her back, to just above her ass. Their mouths never stopped moving, but the angle was too difficult to allow Tim to read their lips.

Tim zeroed in on Damian's fingertips, rubbing tiny circles into the small of her back, and missed when she started kissing him. The sight of their mouths locked together felt like an electric shock to his nerves. Tim frowned and tried to swallow down the instinctive surge of sick fury that wanted to rise into his throat. Damian was only playing along, that was all. Acting. As they'd all been taught.

It was just that Damian had never seemed that interested in pretending, before now.

Katarina kissed Damian's jawline and paused at his ear to whisper something, while she sucked his earlobe between her teeth. A real multi-tasker, this one. Good thing Damian had removed his comms before all this began. Tim realized he was wringing his hands and forced himself to let go.

"Ha! Got it!" Jason crowed, and the audio went crystal clear, just in time to hear Damian say, “Now, why don't we teach you a lesson?”

Tim's alarm to head for the door and start his patrol sounded. He hastily hit "stop" on his phone screen.

On the video feed, Damian's hand slid lower, past Katarina’s waist, to grab just above her ass and pull her even closer. Something in his face reminded Tim of the way Talia's softened when she looked at Bruce.

Katarina giggled and rose to her feet, withdrawing gracefully from his grasp. “You’ll want privacy for that—I’ve been a very, very bad girl. Finish your drink and let’s take it back to my place. It’s just a few blocks east."

Damian tossed back the remainder of his drink and they started making their way through the lounge. Tim yanked his gaze away and stared, unseeing, at the windows, trying to force his breathing into a recognizable pattern. It was fine. This was undercover work. Damian didn't mean any of it. It was just acting.

His teeth clenched so tight the enamel squeaked. Shoving his hands into his gloves, he stalked toward one of his hidden exits, telling himself all the while that he was overreacting.

day 87 here

[wttt-dirus-work]

Québec (Headcanon)

Québec, my province. Less population (8,576,595 in 2020) than New York City (8,804,190 in 2020), biggest province of the country by land.

She appeared when the French came in the Americas for the beaver fur under the name of “Nouvelle France” (New France). She knows the first thirteen colonies of the US, since after the fight between the French and Britain (Seventh Years’ War), she switched to the name The Province of Québec and became a British colony. I headcanon that she knows well New York and New Hampshire from her time with them as colony and as of today is kind of friendly with Maine (who speaks and understand French if they’re talking -> Acadian French is different than Cajun French, but still comprehensible if I try to understand despite the accent – kinda like when you try to understand an Irish accent-) and Vermont (maple syrup). She’s perfectly bilingual but hold a grudge towards English speaking people who refuse to learn French, or who understand French and refuse to speak it (cough, Ontario, cough, Alberta, Cough). She will talk with the provinces and territories solely in French, mostly because they never try to speak French when they visit her land, so why should she try when they are able to understand her? She mainly does it to make them understand how she feels when they keep being assholes to her.

She’s always cold (because of the three climates, subarctic being the biggest sized one, she’s feels as cold as Alaska, not warmer than 3 °C/-16°F in summer and at least -8°C/-22°F in winter and can go lower than -35°C/37°F, while staying around -3°C/-19°F during spring/fall) despite the population living mainly in the south of the province because of the “No Mans land” and continental climate similar to the northeast’s. She is salty to her government for the lumbering, and how they do nothing to protect the forest.

She doesn’t like people, kind of remember me of New York, but she will just not talk instead of getting into fights, except if it’s with Ontario or Alberta, or anyone about hockey. She’s mean but can be nice if you’re on her good side. She’s got a love/hate relationship with Ontario and doesn’t care about the other provinces/is chill with New Brunswick (who is bilingual too and speaks French despite his Acadian accent). She doesn’t really care about Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia and is in a truce-like friendship with Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island (PEI) and Nova Scotia (Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are the oldest in Canada). The “rivalry” concerning Alberta is mainly like Texas and Alaska’s relationship. She doesn’t really care about the west provinces and their problems towards her, which is mainly due to malformation concerning the money divided between the provinces (Alberta feels like she should get more for what she produces in oil, but Québec is the double of her population, so the latter consider it normal that she gets more money). Really, she just want to protect her culture and language.

Against all odds, she has friends: Nunavut -who she can relate for how their government treated their Natives and could understand why Nunavut wanted his own government who was closer to their people- and some of the Northeast states. Since New York buys her electricity from Hydro-Québec (more than a 100-year-old contract!), I headcanon that she and New York would at least talk to each other, and since they know each other from centuries before, I believe they would be good friends. They’re not always fighting like the rest of the Northeast, and I think New York would like Poutine (it’s literally French fries, cheeses curds and brown sauce) and Beavertail (the dude has a thing called Garbage plate, the bar is so low it’s in the ground). As for Vermont, who’s also buying power from her, they bonded over Maple Syrup (Québec is the main producer of the world) and how the real stuff is way better than the cheap from the market (we literally call it sirop de poteau, post syrup). Concerning Maine, he was literally called Little Canada by the Québécois immigrants who fled the depression. Due to the numerous towns/city close to St. Lawrence River, and La Gaspésie, there is some popular seafood closer to Québec city, so they definitely bonded over that.

As of sports team, she loves hockey (they all do) and the Habs is her team (New Brunswick support them because he feels kind of sad for her being alone with most of the maritime provinces rooting for the Maple Leafs/local teams). She doesn’t really care about the other sports but will fight anyone saying the Senators/Maple Leafs/Flyers/Bruins are better. She had horses for some time, but then moved north after Canada becoming a country to help her Native nations despite the way her government tried to annihilate them. She only come down south during the elections times/meeting with the government and when she spends time with the Maritime’s or New York.

Québec is the tallest province (6’7), and only Nunavut beat her in size (7’). Alaska is bigger than her (6’10), but smaller than Nunavut. She got white skin pink in the face/extremities from the cold, some muscle from cutting wood, dark brown hair usually tied in Dutch braids and sky-blue eyes, like her flag. She wears fluffy earmuff (help to muffle the sound in the cities) or a white toque (beanie, guys, for us a toque is a beanie), she got a Habs shirt under a blue flannel (which she sometimes switches for a red one), ripped light jeans and pairs of rainbow runners/converse (wink Montreal wink). She will wear boots in winter, don’t worry (it must be under -30°C/-34°F, like for me lol). She will complain about the snow/cold in jokes, just because she can, but she would never switch it for tornadoes, fire season, earthquakes, hurricanes, alligator, etc.

Here you can see her waving towards someone she knows and is kind of fond of. Is it a Northeast state? Is it New Brunswick or the Maritimes? Who knows. But I can guarantee you, it’s not the west. Honestly, it’s probably New York.

Fun fact about Québec : It's pronounced "kay-beck", not "kwah-beck", honestly, it's a personal pet-peeve. Also, we invented Poutine, and if the other provinces try to pass it as their making, they didn’t, they are big liars who lie. It was made in Drummondville, by Jean-Paul Roy in 1964. It’s not “Poo-t-ine”, it’s “poo-tsin”. If you don’t pronounce it with the “-tsin”, you’re saying it wrong; I don’t make the rules. And if you come here, we won’t hate you because you’re black/Asian/another ethnicity; we will hate you if you don’t speak French. And not France French (you won’t understand anything from us), Québec French. Acadian French is good if your accent isn’t that bad (also Cajun French is something else, like you saw with International Canada (Kallmekris) in that sketch, but I personally can understand it well), it’s like that saying: A French speaking (francophone) person in Montreal who speaks English is a bilingual, and English speaking (anglophone) person there who speaks French is a fucking miracle. Don’t take it personal, as I said before, it’s linked to our history. Oh, and we do swear a lot, but there’s gradation : Tabarnak is worse than Calisse or Esti, like fuck off is worse than damn. And saying fuck here is nothing vs our swears, it doesn’t hold the same importance than an Esti de Calisse de Tabarnak; we also use them as verbs and can accord them as nouns too.

Most of us doesn’t believe in Church while we can be Christian (look up Québec’s Bill 21 for more information towards our relationship with religion) or are polite with it and won’t force it in your face, and if you try to justify hating on other people because of your beliefs, we will judge you and won’t like you. Our way of life is kind of a mix between the Midwest and Northeast, in the “mind you own business” mindset for the latter, and the former, if you guys recall the Minnesota goodbye, yeah, we do that here (took me two hours at the door once, because my friend and I were still talking and unable to say goodbye) with also the being too nice, usually in the country, but not in the city (this is a generalisation, there’s always exceptions). From what I know, it’s mostly this way with the rest of the country, so I don’t think it’s a fun fact about the Province.

The more Cryptids we have (except for some locals stories; I have a few personals, just send a ask if you want to hear about it) is La Chasse-Galerie, some skinwalker, wendigo and Mugwump.

Oh, and most of the things about Alaska with cold/snow does apply to us, in majority. We do play the game of “am I on the road/guess the line” during winter and the spot the deer/moose in the rut season.

About her relationship with Cana, where I mentioned the mistake Cana made in the 80s:

Pierre E. Trudeau, the prime minister of the country at this time, knew René Lévesque, Québec’s Premier. They weren’t friends, especially after the referendum to make Québec a country, and when came the time to sign the Constitution in the 80s, to finalize Canada’s independence from the UK, Lévesque was excluded from the negotiations which took place on the night of November 4 to 5, 1981, called “Nuit des Longs Couteaux” (Night of the Long Knives). The National Assembly of Québec has never formally approved the law.

Concerning Cana and Québec, I think the latter is still angry at the Fed for not even informing her of it until it was signed, and it’s another reason we’re, as Québécois, pissed towards English people.

Masterpost here

[frmartinshomiliesandreflections]

9th June>> Fr. Martin’s Gospel Reflections / Homilies on:

Matthew 8:18-27 /  Matthew 19:27-29 for the Feast of St Columcille or Columba: ‘Save us, Lord, we are going down’

Or on

Mark 12:35-37 for Friday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time.

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Feast of St Columcille or Columba

Gospel Except USA)

Matthew 8:18-27

Give everything you own to the poor, and follow me.

When Jesus saw the great crowds all about him he gave orders to leave for the other side. One of the scribes then came up and said to him, ‘Master, I will follow you wherever you go.’ Jesus replied, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’

   Another man, one of his disciples, said to him, ‘Sir, let me go and bury my father first.’ But Jesus replied, ‘Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their dead.’

   Jesus got into the boat followed by his disciples. Without warning a storm broke over the lake, so violent that the waves were breaking right over the boat. But he was asleep. So they went to him and woke him saying, ‘Save us, Lord, we are going down!’ And he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened, you men of little faith?’ And with that he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and all was calm again. The men were astounded and said, ‘Whatever kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him.’

Or

Gospel (Except USA)

Matthew 19:27-29

They will be repaid a hundred times over and inherit eternal life.

Peter spoke to Jesus. ‘What about us?’ he said. ‘We have left everything and followed you. What are we to have, then?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I tell you solemnly, when all is made new and the Son of Man sits on his throne of glory, you will yourselves sit on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children or land for the sake of my name will be repaid a hundred times over, and also inherit eternal life.’

Reflections (6)

(i) Feast of St Columcille or Columba

Columcille was born in Gartan, Co. Donegal in 521 and was of royal lineage, belonging to a branch of the O’Neill dynasty. He studied under Saint Mobhi, in the monastery of Glasnevin. He went on to establish monasteries himself in Derry, Durrow, and possibly Kells. In 563 he left Ireland with twelve companions and founded a monastery on the island of Iona off SW Scotland, which was given to him by the ruler of the Irish Dalriada for the purpose of establishing a monastery. The monastery became a place of learning with the copying and illumination of manuscripts. Columcille remained the rest of his life in Scotland, mainly Iona, returning to Ireland only for occasional visits. He died on June 9, 597. Columcille and his companions preached the gospel in the Western part of Scotland. After his death, monks from Iona went to evangelize Northumbria, where they established monasteries at Lindisfarne and Whitby. Columcille and his companions made the word of God fully known wherever they went. During their ministry, they went through many a stormy time, like the disciples in today’s gospel reading. Yet, just as Jesus was with the disciples in the storm at sea and brought them through it, he was with Columcille and his companions through all their difficult moments, and they came to discover, like those disciples, that the Lord was stronger than the storm. Our own following of the Lord, as a community and as individuals, won’t always be easy; the storms and trials of life will often put our faith to the test. Just as Jesus was asleep in the boat, it can seem to us at such times that the Lord is asleep on our watch. Yet, the Lord is always attentive to us. One of the psalms expresses that conviction very well, ‘He who keeps you will not slumber. He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep’. The Lord is ever watchful and faithful. It is we who can become faithless or, in the rebuke of Jesus to the disciples in the boat, people of ‘little faith’, somewhere between no faith and full faith. We fail to keep the Lord in view. It is because we are all prone to ‘little faith’ that, in the words of Paul in today’s first reading, we need to ‘persevere in prayer’. Perhaps we could keep making our own the prayer of one of the minor characters of the gospel story, the father of a seriously ill boy who prayed to Jesus, ‘Lord, I believe, help my unbelief’.

And/Or

(ii) Feast of St Colum Cille or Columba

Colum Cille was born in Gartan, Co. Donegal in 521 and was of royal lineage. He founded monasteries in Derry, Durrow, and possibly Kells. In 565 he left Ireland with twelve companions and founded a monastery on the island of Iona off SW Scotland, which was given to him for a monastery by the ruler of the Irish Dalriada. Columba remained the rest of his life in Scotland, mainly Iona, returning to Ireland only for occasional visits. He died on June 9, 597. Colum Cille and his companions preached the gospel in the Western part of Scotland. In the words of the first reading from the letter to the Colossians, he made the word of God fully known wherever he went. That reading describes God’s word as the mystery hidden throughout the ages but now revealed. The content of this mystery, according to that reading, is ‘Christ among you, the hope of glory’. This is the heart of the good news. Christ is among us and his presence among us gives us hope, hope of sharing in the glory that he now enjoys. As we journey towards that glory, our calling in this life is, in the words of that same reading, to become ‘mature in Christ’. We are to grow up into Christ who lives among us, and to the extent we do that we become fully mature, as Colum Cille was. Our becoming mature in Christ, our growing up into Christ, is a lifetime’s work, and this work is not just our work; more fundamentally it is the work of the Holy Spirit within us. Today we ask the Spirit to conform us more and more to the image of Christ.

 And/Or

(iii) Saint Colum Cille or Columba

Colum Cille was born in Gartan, Co. Donegal in 521 and was of royal lineage. He founded monasteries in Derry, Durrow, and possibly Kells. In 565, at the age of forty four, he left Ireland with twelve companions and founded a monastery on the island of Iona off SW Scotland, which was given to him for a monastery by the ruler of the Irish Dalriada. He remained the rest of his life in Scotland, mainly Iona, returning to Ireland only for occasional visits. Colum Cille and his companions preached the gospel in the Western part of Scotland. He died on June 9, 597, at the age of seventy six. In the gospel reading Jesus commissions his disciples to go out and bear fruit, fruit that will last. Colum Cille’s life has certainly borne a lasting fruit. That is because, in the words of the gospel reading, he remained in the Lord’s love. His relationship with the Lord was at the heart of his missionary work, his life of witness. We too will be witnesses to the Lord in our own way if we remain in his love, if we strive to grow in our relationship with him, growing to love him as he loves us. It is that remaining in the Lord’s love which enables our lives to bear the rich fruit of the Spirit.

 And/Or

(iv) Saint Colum Cille or Columba

Colum Cille was born in Gartan, Co. Donegal in 521 and was of royal lineage. He founded monasteries in Derry, Durrow, and possibly Kells. In 565 he left Ireland with twelve companions and founded a monastery on the island of Iona off the South West of Scotland, which was given to him for a the purpose of establishing a monastery by the ruler of the Irish Dalriada. Colum Cille remained the rest of his life in Scotland, mainly Iona, returning to Ireland only for occasional visits. He lived in Iona for over thirty years and died on June 9, 597. Colum Cille and his companions preached the gospel in the Western part of Scotland. They made the word of God fully known wherever they went. Colum Cille regarded himself as a man of peace, and his spirit lives on in the Iona community which is based on the island. The Iona Community is a Christian ecumenical community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions in the Church. They are committed to working together for peace and social justice, the rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship. In the Eucharist we God’s celebrate reconciling love revealed fully in the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are then sent from the Eucharist to be instruments of that reconciling love in our own sphere of influence.

 And/Or

(v) Feast of St Colum Cille or Columba

Colum Cille was born in Gartan, Co. Donegal in 521 and was of royal lineage. He founded monasteries in Derry, Durrow, and possibly Kells. In 565 he left Ireland with twelve companions and founded a monastery on the island of Iona off SW Scotland, which was given to him for a the purpose of establishing a monastery by the ruler of the Irish Dalriada. Columba remained the rest of his life in Scotland, mainly Iona, returning to Ireland only for occasional visits. He died on June 9, 597. Colum Cille and his companions preached the gospel in the Western part of Scotland. They made the word of God fully known wherever they went. In the course of their ministry they went through many a stormy sea, like the disciples in today’s gospel reading. Yet, just as Jesus was with the disciples in the storm and brought them through it, he was with Colum Cille and his companions through all their difficult moments, and they discovered, like those disciples, that the Lord was stronger than the storm. In spite of many setbacks and in the face of great odds, the Lord worked powerfully through them. Our own following of the Lord won’t always be easy; the storms and trials of life will often put our faith to the test. Yet, the Lord will be with us in those dark moments, as he was with Colum Cille and his companions in their struggles, as he was with the disciples in the boat. If we keep faith in him, he will work powerfully through us and bring us safely to shore.

 And/Or

(vi) Feast of St Columcille or Columba

Columcille was born in Gartan, Co. Donegal in 521 and was of royal lineage, belonging to a branch of the O’Neill dynasty. He studied under Saint Mobhi, in the monastery of Glasnevin. He went on to establish monasteries himself in Derry, Durrow, and possibly Kells. In 563 he left Ireland with twelve companions and founded a monastery on the island of Iona off SW Scotland, which was given to him by the ruler of the Irish Dalriada for the purpose of establishing a monastery. The monastery became a place of learning with the copying and illumination of manuscripts. Columcille remained the rest of his life in Scotland, mainly Iona, returning to Ireland only for occasional visits. He died on June 9, 597. Columcille and his companions preached the gospel in the Western part of Scotland. After his death, monks from Iona went to evangelize Northumbria, where they established monasteries at Lindisfarne and Whitby. Columcille and his companions made the word of God fully known wherever they went. During their ministry, they went through many a stormy time, like the disciples in today’s gospel reading. Yet, just as Jesus was with the disciples in the storm at sea and brought them through it, he was with Columcille and his companions through all their difficult moments, and they came to discover, like those disciples, that the Lord was stronger than the storm. Our own following of the Lord won’t always be easy; the storms and trials of life will often put our faith to the test. Just as Jesus was asleep in the boat, it can seem to us at such times that the Lord is asleep on our watch. Yet, the Lord is always attentive to us. One of the psalms expresses that conviction very well, ‘He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep’. The Lord is ever watchful and faithful. It is we who can become faithless or, in the rebuke of Jesus to the disciples in the boat, people of ‘little faith’. It is because we are all prone to ‘little faith’ that we need to keep making our own that prayer of the father of a seriously ill boy which we find in one of the gospel stories, ‘Lord, I believe, help my unbelief’.

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Friday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel (Except USA)

Mark 12:35-37

'David himself calls him Lord'.

At that time while teaching in the Temple, Jesus said, ‘How can the scribes maintain that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, moved by the Holy Spirit, said:

The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand and I will put your enemies under your feet.

David himself calls him Lord, in what way then can he be his son?’ And the great majority of the people heard this with delight.

Gospel (USA)

Mark 12:35-37

How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?

As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said, “How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said:

The Lord said to my lord, ‘Sit at my right hand    until I place your enemies under your feet.’

David himself calls him ‘lord’; so how is he his son?” The great crowd heard this with delight.

Reflections (4)

(i) Friday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

There is a great deal of the praise of God in today’s first reading. When Tobias healed the blindness of his father Tobit, his father, fell on his son’s neck and exclaimed, ‘Blessed be God! Blessed be his great name! Blessed be all his holy angels! Blessed be his great name for evermore!’ When Tobias went into his father’s house, he joyfully blessed God, telling his father everything about the journey he had just completed. Then Tobit set off to the gates of Nineveh to meet his daughter-in-law for the first time, ‘giving joyful praise to God as he went’. When he met, Sarah, his daughter in law, he blessed her with the words, ‘Blessed by your God for sending you to us, my daughter’. Tobit and Tobias recognized the presence of God in all that was happening around them and they gave praise and thanks to God for it. We are all probably much more familiar with the prayer of petition. When we are in difficulty to ask God to help us. We pray to God out of the depths. That is as it should be. Sometimes, we forget to praise and thank God for the blessings that come our way in life. We don’t think of God as easily in good times as in bad times. According to the gospel reading, the majority of the people heard Jesus with delight. The presence of Jesus, his deeds and his words, brought them joy, and led them to praise God. Jesus is God’s gift to us all. We can all hear him with delight. God’s gift of his Son to us gives us very good reason to praise and thank God. We say formal prayers of praise and thanks to God in the Mass. Yet, Tobit and Tobias, and the people in the gospel reading, encourage us to be spontaneous in our prayer of praise and thanks to God. It is a prayer that can arise in our hearts at any time of the day, in any place, in response to the Lord’s many, daily, blessings. In the words of today’s psalm, ‘I will praise the Lord all my days’.

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(ii) Friday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time 

This morning’s gospel reading is very short, and most people would find it a little bit obtuse. There is an argument going on between Jesus and the Jewish scribes about the identity of the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. Jesus is confronting the teaching of the scribes according to which the Messiah will be the son of David. Jesus quotes from one of the psalms to show that the Messiah was to be not simply David’s son but David’s Lord. Although a descendant of David, Jesus, as Messiah, is declaring himself to be David’s Lord. In other words, there is more to Israel’s Messiah than the scribes appreciate. As the long awaited Jewish Messiah, Jesus is Lord, Lord of the Sabbath, Lord of David, Lord of all. One of the great confessions of the early church was, ‘Jesus is Lord’. That was a very striking confession in a Jewish context, because up until the time of Jesus, the title ‘Lord’ was given only to God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the God of Israel. This morning’s responsorial psalm, a Jewish prayer, declares ‘My soul, give praise to the Lord’, to God. Jesus is Lord of Israel’s greatest king, David; he is our Lord, Lord of each one of us, Lord of the church. Our calling is to live our lives under his Lordship, or, to put it in another way, to live as his servants, placing ourselves at the service of his purpose for our world.

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(iii) Friday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

This morning’s gospel reading is short but it may sound a little confusing on first hearing it. Many Jews expected the coming Messiah to be a son of David, a descendant of David. Jesus suggests that the title, ‘Son of David’, is not adequate for God’s Messiah, for himself, Jesus. In the manner of a discussion among Rabbis, Jesus argues his case on the basis of a verse of Scripture, a verse from the Psalms. It was generally understood in the time of Jesus that King David was the author of the psalms. In one psalm, the person praying, understood to be David, refers to the coming anointed one, the coming Messiah, as ‘my Lord’. Jesus argues that if David refers to the coming Messiah as ‘my Lord’, then the Messiah cannot simply be David’s Son. He is clearly David’s Lord. Jesus is really saying that there is much more to him than people imagine. Yes, he is a son of David, a Jew from the line of David. Yet, Jesus’ full identity is not exhausted by the title Son of David. We are being reminded that there is always more to Jesus than we imagine. Our ways of thinking and speaking about Jesus will always fall short of his full identity. He is always more mysterious, more wonderful than we can possible conceive. Saint Paul speaks of ‘the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge’. It is because Jesus in the love of God in human form that he is beyond any title we could give him. Our thoughts and words never do justice to him, and that is ultimately very consoling.

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(iv) Friday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

In today’s first reading, Saint Paul says that ‘all scripture is inspired by God, and can profitably be used for teaching, for refuting error, for guiding people’s lives and teaching them to be holy’. For Paul, of course, ‘all scripture’ was what we call the Old Testament, the Jewish Scriptures. In Paul’s time, there was no such thing as a New Testament, a collection of writings inspired by Jesus. If what Paul says of the Jewish Scriptures is true, we as Christians acknowledge that it is even more true of the Christian Scriptures, the four gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the letters of Paul and of other writers, the Book of Revelation. All of it can profitably be used for teaching, for guiding our lives and teaching us to be holy. We have a wonderful resource in all these Scriptures, what the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures, and it is Jesus who shows us how to interpret the Jewish Scriptures. We read the Jewish Scriptures in the light of the Christian Scriptures. In the gospel reading, we find Jesus interpreting one segment of the Jewish Scriptures, one of the Psalms. He shows that, understood properly, that particular psalm shows that Jesus is more than the Son of David; he is Lord. He has the same name that God has in the Jewish Scriptures, the name ‘Lord’. The gospels tell us that when the risen Lord appeared to his disciples, he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. The Lord is the light in which we read all the Scriptures. The more we come to know the Lord, the more we will understand God’s word to us in what Paul in today’s first reading calls ‘all scripture’. That is why when we sit down to read or pray the Scriptures it is good to firstly invite the Lord, the Spirit of the Lord, to enlighten the eyes of our minds and hearts.

 Fr. Martin Hogan.

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29:59 - The Muckers "The Crash" from Whiskey Tango

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India cruise pass Ireland as Pant returns

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India were clinical in their opening encounter of the T-20 World Cup in New York cruising past Ireland with an eight wicket win with more than seven overs to spare. It’s a good warm-up for one of the pre-tournament favorites before the epic clash against arch-rivals Pakistan later this week.

As for Ireland, they did not have the strength to test one of the strongest sides in the competition. Nevertheless, the experience of playing against big boys would have stood in good stead for them.

One of the highlights during the game was the return of Rishabh Pant in India colors again. The hard-hitting wicketkeeper batsman capable of changing the course of a game within a couple of overs was involved in a nasty motor accident two years ago. After several surgeries and extensive rehabilitation, he had featured in domestic cricket and this was his first international game.

India have been presented with a comfortable schedule for the tournament. They have been based in New York and played their warm-up game against Bangladesh there while three of their four first round games will be played in New York.

Jasprit Bumrah was unplayable as his three overs cost just six runs. While Bumrah will be always tough to play, India coach Rahul Dravid will take heart with the fact that his other bowlers were firing on all cylinders. Dravid is in his last series as India Coach.

Hardik Pandya finished with three wickets while Arshdeep Singh shared the new ball and claimed two wickets.

The Irish folded away inside 16 overs which meant that the spin options of Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja were required for only one over each.

Rohit Sharma has had several opening partners during his career and for this tournament he is having a new partner in Virat Kohli. The former captain was dismissed in the fifth ball, but there was no stopping Rohit.

Rohit smashed 57 off 37 balls with four fours and three sixes before retiring.

Pant was at number three and finished on 36 not out off 26 balls.

With this kind of explosive batting power with the likes of Rohit, Kohli and Pant, a strong middle order comprising Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dube followed by more fire power comprising Pandya, Jadeja and Axar Patel, India have one of the strongest sides in the competition. It will be no surprise if they go all the way. Fielding is their only drawback.

India have been a spectacular failure in ICC events having not won a tournament since 2011. They will be trying to change that during this competition.

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Events 1.5 (before 1950)

1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French army beats Brandenburg. 1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who becomes the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering (the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides). 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by former American general Benedict Arnold. 1822 – The government of Central America votes for total annexation to the First Mexican Empire. 1875 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris. 1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. 1900 – Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule. 1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third-oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University. 1912 – The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement. 1913 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war. 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses. 1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich. 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States. 1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. 1941 – Amy Johnson, a 37-year-old pilot and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead. 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. 1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland. 1949 – In his State of the Union address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.

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The guardian of the church in Penn Yan

By Jonathan Monfiletto

The first Catholic services in Yates County likely took place well before Yates County was even a county and even before the first permanent European settlers arrived in the area. And it took more than 60 years for the first Catholic church to be established in the village of Penn Yan.

According to an article dated 1998 on the history of St. Michael’s Catholic Church, from our subject files, two French traders – the men named DeBartzch and Poudre who are spoken about in various circles of local history – had set up shop in the 1780s near the Seneca village of Kashong on the west side of Seneca Lake near place known as Ben Barton’s Landing. They were visited by a priest from Oswego, who held a religious service with Seneca of the vicinity making up the primary audience. In this case, the priest was following on the footsteps of Jesuit priest who had worked to convert the Iroquois tribes to Catholicism more than a century before.

Prior to 1847, Father O’Flaherty, of Geneva, came to Penn Yan and performed Mass in the courthouse or in a schoolhouse located near Fox Mills or in the home of Mrs. Mary Mulligan, according to the article. However, it wasn’t until 1847 that the Catholics of Penn Yan had a more permanent place for their services when Mr. Thomas Hendricks opened his Pine Street (now Keuka Street, off the south side of Elm Street) home to his fellow Catholics. An Irish immigrant who came to the United States and almost directly to Penn Yan that year, Hendricks and his family made up the bulk of the congregation – as he and his wife had 14 children.

Nevertheless, Hendricks was disturbed by the lack of a Catholic church in the village, so in 1849, he collected to funds to build a church across the street from his home, located on the east side of Pine Street. Abraham Wagener, the man considered the founding father of Penn Yan, gave the land to build the church, which was constructed in six months in 1850 at a cost of $2,200 and dedicated in honor of St. Michael. In Catholicism, St. Michael the archangel is the leader of the heavenly forces as well as the angel of death and the guardian of the church.

A little more than 30 years after its establishment, the church opened a parochial school of the same name; funds for St. Michael’s School were raised in September 1881, and the building was dedicated in September 1883. Today, the school remains in its original location on Keuka Street, site of the former Yates County Fairgrounds; an acre of land, either part of all of the fairgrounds, was purchased for $1,200. The cornerstone for the 37-by-61, two-story-high brick building was laid May 14, 1882, and the construction cost $6,400.

About 20 years later, a little more than 50 years after its formation, St. Michael moved from Pine Street to Liberty Street, on property owned by Leon Lewis – the mysterious editor of the Penn Yan Mystery – with the back of the lot almost directly across from the site of the school. The cornerstone for the new church was laid on May 12, 1901, and the building was dedicated on June 15, 1902. The Lewis home was turned into the rectory for the church, while the horse barn on the property was converted into a convent.

In March 1931, The Chronicle-Express reported on planned improvements at church to include the installation of a new altar and a new organ and the addition of an auditorium in the basement. The article states the church seating capacity would remain at about 500, while the auditorium – to be used for both church and school events – would have around the same capacity. In 1950, the church planned a weeklong centennial celebration starting September 24 with a slate of festivities and activities.

In November 1965, a fire broke out in the basement boiler room of the church, but quick action by firefighters from Penn Yan and Dresden kept the blaze contained to the basement. The incident happened on a Saturday, but services occurred as usual the next morning. A 1975 newspaper article by the Rev. Thomas F. McVeigh highlighted the church’s history on the occasion of its 125th anniversary. That history continued in 1988 with further renovations to the building, highlighted by the uncovering of the St. Michael window. The window depicting St. Michael is situated directly behind the altar but had been closed off since the 1931 project.

Meanwhile, much like the church, the school – which is under the supervision of the Sisters of St. Joseph – also underwent extensive renovations in 1931. Yet, a more major project for the school came in 1954 when the facilities were expanded; a school designed for 130 students was experiencing overcrowding with a student body of 200. The plans called for adding two classrooms and remodeling three to accommodate 260 students and five teachers in the school. A fund drive was launched to raise $100,000 for the project, and a little more than $50,000 was raised in the first week. The 1954 school year opened that September with 211 students at St. Michael’s, and the six-classroom addition to the existing school building opened in April 1955.

St. Michael’s School fell on hard times, though, beginning in 1970, when it announced that March it would drop its seventh- and eighth-grade classes at the end of the school year due to rising operating costs. At the time, the school had 171 students and a staff of three nuns and five lay teachers. The following year, at the beginning of 1971, the parochial school board initially recommended closing the school because of decreased enrollment and then decided the school would remain open when parents and parishioners declared their support.

St. Michael’s School celebrated its centennial in 1982, but then six years later in 1988 it cut its sixth-grade class when only five students from the fifth grade were scheduled to move up. The new millennium brought further hardship for the school, as it launched the “Secure Our Future” fundraising campaign in 2007 – conjunction with its 125th anniversary – with a goal of $1.25 million over the next five years. The goal, according to one newspaper article, was for the school to stay relevant amid financial pressures and a changing educational landscape. That didn’t stop the school from, in 2008 with its enrollment at 110, being under consideration for closure by the Diocese of Rochester.

Yet, in 2016, St. Michael’s marked its 135th anniversary by noting its student body increased from 82 to 90 children in grades K-5 and a pre-kindergarten program for 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. And, the school and the church are still standing and still serving, the school in the same location it has been for more than 140 years and the church a few blocks away from where it started almost 175 years ago.

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Jacob Stockdale in Ireland squad with Carbery missing out

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Jacob Stockdale in Ireland squad with Carbery missing out

Johnny Sexton and Tadhg Furlong have been included in Andy Farrell’s 37-player Ireland squad for the Six Nations despite injury worries, with Joey Carbery missing out.

Ireland skipper Sexton underwent surgical procedure after struggling a cheekbone harm gambling for Leinster against Connacht on New Year’s Day, making him a doubt for the start of Ireland’s Six Nations marketing campaign.

Stockdale joins Stuart McCloskey, Iain Henderson, Rob Herring and Tom O’Toole because the Ulster inclusions with Nick Timoney and Michael Lowry missing out.

Ross Byrne and Jack Crowley are named because the fly-1/2 returned-up to Johnny Sexton. Leinster returned Jamie Osborne is the best uncapped player within the squad.

Robert Baloucoune overlooked Ulster’s recreation closing weekend against La Rochelle because of a hamstring injury and his absence seems to have opened the door to club-mate Stockdale returning to the Ireland squad.

Wing Stockdale, who changed into Six Nations player of the match in 2018, has not featured for Ireland because the summer season Test in opposition to Japan in July 2021, even though he changed into dominated out for almost all ultimate season because of injury.

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Jacob Stockdale Ireland Six Nations squad but Joey Carbery misses

Jacob Stockdale has been named in Ireland’s 37-man Six Nations squad with Munster fly-half Joey Carbery a notable absentee.

Henderson is included notwithstanding being unavailable for Ulster’s European sport against Sale this weekend because of concussion but Timoney and Lowry pass over out at the side of their other membership-buddies Kieran Treadwell and James Hume amid the northern province’s latest negative run.

As predicted, skipper Sexton and Leinster colleague Tadhg Furlong are each included in spite of their recent accidents even as Munster veterans Conor Murray and Keith Earls are also named inside the squad.

Sexton was a ultimate-minute withdrawal from Ireland’s very last Autumn Test in opposition to Australia when Munster teen Crowley became surpassed the variety 10 jersey before Byrne kicked the overdue triumphing penalty after approaching as a substitute.

Carbery become expected to return to the squad for the Six Nations however Ireland educate Andy Farrell has opted to maintain religion with Crowley and Byrne.

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With Robbie Henshaw still unavailable following wrist surgical operation, Ulster’s McCloskey will struggle with Connacht’s British and Irish Lion Bundee Aki for the internal centre position.

Farrell stated that individuals who didn’t make the squad for the Wales opener in Cardiff on four February can have possibilities to kingdom their case for the final suits within the event.

While there are a few players wearing knocks and others which have ignored out on selection for the begin of the match, they’ll have the possibility to push their case gambling for their provinces within the URC over the coming weeks as no question we can want to call upon the wider institution as the match progresses,” stated the Ireland instruct.

Ireland’s Six Nations squad – forwards

Backs (17): Aki (Connacht), R Byrne (Leinster), Casey (Munster), Crowley (Munster), Earls (Munster), Gibson-Park (Leinster), Keenan (Leinster), Larmour (Leinster), Lowe (Leinster), McCloskey (Ulster), Murray (Munster), O’Brien (Leinster), Osborne (Leinster), Ringrose (Leinster), Sexton (Leinster), Stockdale (Ulster)

Forwards (20): Baird (Leinster), Bealham (Connacht), Beirne (Munster), Conan (Leinster), Coombes (Munster), Doris (Leinster), Furlong (Leinster), Healy (Leinster), Henderson (Ulster), Herring (Ulster), Kelleher (Leinster), Kilcoyne (Munster), McCarthy (Leinster), O’Mahony (Munster), O’Toole (Ulster), Porter (Leinster), Prendergast (Connacht), Ryan (Leinster), D Sheehan (Leinster), Van der Flier (Leinster)

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Celtic Top 20 for 2022

Listen to the Top 20 Celtic Songs and Tunes of 2022 on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #587.

Marc Gunn, The Gothard Sisters, House of Hamill, Altan, Socks in the Frying Pan, Screeched Inn, Flynn Cohen, John Doyle, Bow Triplets, The High Kings, Battlefield Band, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, The Byrne Brothers, Ed Miller, The Bow Tides, Rising Gael, The Selkie Girls, Sam Gillogly, Brad Tuck, Scythian, Syr, Ockham's Razor, We Banjo 3

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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC

0:17 - The Gothard Sisters "Willow's Waltz" from Story Girl

5:11 - WELCOME

7:11 - House of Hamill "Superb Owl" from Folk Hero

10:22 - Altan "Dúlamán" from Island Angel

14:02 - Socks in the Frying Pan "Spaceships & Frying Pans (Live)" from Raw & Ríl (Live)

17:54 - Marc Gunn & Screeched Inn "Bright Side of Everything" from Selcouth

21:04 - CELTIC TOP 20

22:14 - Flynn Cohen "Hag's Purse / Bryan O'Lynn / Miss McDevitt's Jig" from Dead String Rhythm

27:04 - John Doyle "The Rambler from Clare (Song)" from The Path of Stones

31:59 - Heidi, Stef & Bow Triplets "Open Sky/Meghan's Reel/Canal Jig" from One Spot On Earth

37:23 - The High Kings "Marie's Wedding" from The High Kings

41:05 - Battlefield Band "The St. Louis Stagger / The Ass In The Graveyard / Sandy's New Chanter" from The Producer's Choice

45:23 - FEEDBACK

51:55 - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh "The Emigrant's Farewell" from daybreak: fainne an lae

55:43 - The Byrne Brothers "Waikiki Reel (Finn Byrne) Seanamhac Tube Station Reel [Traditional]" from Living the Dream

59:14 - Ed Miller "My Bonnie Border Lass" from Lolander

1:02:42 - The Bow Tides "The Bow Tides Jigs" from Sailing On

1:07:05 - Rising Gael "Tam Lin" from One More Day

1:11:13 - THANKS

1:13:45 - The Selkie Girls "Star of the County Down" from Running With the Morrigan

1:17:00 - Marc Gunn / Sam Gillogly "Hobbit Polka" from Dancing With Hobbits

1:20:14 - Brad Tuck "Madeline's Might" from Stages

1:23:42 - Scythian "Fields of St. James" from Jump at the Sun

1:27:42 - Syr "Revenant" from Sentinel

1:32:33 - Ockham's Razor "Fire in the Kitchen" from Secrets and Silence

1:36:58 - CLOSING

1:39:09 - We Banjo 3 "Wynne's (Live)" from Roots to Rise (Live)

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WHAT’S NEW IN IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC: BEST OF 2022

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In 2023, we’re going on a Celtic Invasion of County Mayo in Ireland. We’re gonna explore the area and get to know Grace O’Malley, the Pirate Queen. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/

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I've been researching my family history and can proudly say that I've been finding lots of Irish, Scottish and even Welsh ancestry. I have no problem sharing the names -  - Moon, Dunseath, Lowrie, Thomson, Dunn, etc.

So your show helps me connect, in a way, to family long lost physically but coming to me in a spiritual and emotional way. Thanks and keep up the great work! "

John Thompson wrote about episode #581: "Hey Marc, Just listened to the Irish & Celtic Music podcast episode 581 and I had a question. One of the last tracks was by Bren Holmes  -  -  a song called SOS. This is a cover song originally written and performed by the Swedish pop group ABBA around 1975 (yeah, I'm that old). I thought you had a policy about not playing covers as they're not "pod safe". It's a great song and I've heard MANY great covers performed at various festivals by various bands. It would be fantastic if you could play more but don't want you to get into any kind of trouble. I'm not quite sure how that works. If you could explain it briefly for your listeners maybe it would clear up the confusion."

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