Posted by admin on March 15, 2014
The Parade committee are getting thousands of calls I hear and are now telling people to call the Irish Consulate. It’s the parade committee who is supposed to be in charge or are they anymore? Why was this kept so quiet? Big Brit POW WOW in town this week including SF. I couldn’t understand all of the media hype over the gay issue, but now I see it more clearly. It was used as more of a diversion than a civil rights issue.
Upon further reflection on this issue. I see this now as a very high-level British plot to destroy the parade and what’s left of independent Nationalist Catholic Irish America. Irish Central has been running stories for weeks about the pros and cons of an “all inclusive parade for the gay community” but they knew nothing about the PSNI marching in the parade? The parade committee knew nothing about it? Sinn Fein knew nothing about it? Highly unlikely. This is like the Klu-Klux Klan marching in the Martin Luther King Day parade. Sinn Fein, and all Irish-American supporters of Sinn Fein, and our Irish-American politicians, where is your voice and public condemnation now?
Posted by Jim on March 14, 2014
To All Brooklyn Prep Alumni,
It is with sadness that we inform you that our former Moderator and beloved, Fr. John D. Alexander, S.J. died at noon time Wednesday, March 12, 2014. “Fr. Jack” had celebrated his 90th birthday last August. He died quietly and was only confined to his bed for the last three days.
Funeral Details:
Wake at Murray-Weigel Hall – 515 E. Fordham Rd
(Entrance around corner on Bathgate Ave)
Friday, March 14, 2014 – 3:00pm – 5:00pm & 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Funeral Mass
Saturday March 15, 2014 – 10:30 AM
Fordham University Church
Let us all remember Fr. Jack with joy and fond memories and pray that he may now enter into the joy of Christ.
Posted by Jim on March 12, 2014
We Only Want the Earth
“Be moderate,” the trimmers cry,
Who dread the tyrants’ thunder.
“You ask too much and people By
From you aghast in wonder.”
‘Tis passing strange, for I declare
Such statements give me mirth,
For our demands most moderate are,
We only want the earth.
Our masters all a godly crew,
Whose hearts throb for the poor,
Their sympathies assure us, too,
If our demands were fewer.
Most generous souls! But please observe,
What they enjoy from birth
Is all we ever had the nerve
To ask, that is, the earth.
The “labor fakir” full of guile,
Base doctrine ever preaches,
And whilst he bleeds the rank and file
Tame moderation teaches.
Yet, in despite, we’ll see the day
When, with sword in its girth,
Labor shall march in war array
To realize its own, the earth.
Posted by Jim on March 11, 2014
Saint Patrick’s Day as been celebrated on March 17th since the early seventeenth century. The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, as well as the celebration of all things Irish; culture and heritage. It is widely celebrated all around the world, especially in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Saint Patrick has become the most recognized and famous of the Patron Saints of Ireland. Patrick was born in Roman Britain in the forth century into a wealthy family. At the age of sixteen he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and brought to Ireland as a slave. According to his confession, he was told by God to flee from captivity and return to Britain.
Patrick returned to Britain and studied to become a priest. At night it was said that Patrick would hear in his dreams the call from the Irish. They called him to come and free them from paganism, “crying to thee, come hither and walk with us once more.” Patrick’s wish was fulfilled when he was ordained a bishop and returned to Ireland. Patrick set out to bring Christianity to Ireland and spread the teachings of Christianity across the country. He helped build churches, baptized pagans into Christianity and also ordained bishops and priests.
Take a look at this charming short video from Brown Bag Films of a child telling the story of Saint Patrick to her school teacher.
After nearly 30 years of devoting his life to spreading Christianity, he died on the 17th March, 461. It is believed that he is buried at Down Cathedral, Downpatrick (shown in the top image). It was said that on the day Saint Patrick died that the sun did not set, but shone from twelve days and nights. Saint Patrick is most famously credited for introducing Christianity to Ireland and for his famous teachings using the symbolic shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit to the people of Ireland. March 17th has been commemorated St Patrick’s Day ever since.
Posted by Jim on
I believe it is fair to say that it is Mr. Brush who is on “cloud cuckoo land “with regard to denying that DUP members knew nothing about amnesty letters for On the Runs during Mr. McGeough’s on again off again four year trial.
Mr. Brush, who was at attendance with other DUP people at the trial of Mr. McGeough, must have been mentally disconnected from the proceedings as well as the other DUP people struggling to stay awake, as these facts were introduced at the trial by Mr. McGeough’s attorney and written into the court transcripts along with vast media coverage on the issue dating back to March 7, 2010. It is also important to mention that a witness at the trail of McGeough, a loyalist and member of the Progressive Unionist Party, William Plum Smith, gave testimony on behalf of Mr. McGeough underscoring these facts.
Mr. Brush, a former member of the UDR, needs to get his facts straight. Brush and the DUP leadership need to get out of its time warp, get into real time, and start doing grown up politics with the rest of the political parties in NI.