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August 2020
Heritage Week: Pilgrimage to St. Brigid’s Well
‘Heritage and Education: Learning from our Heritage’. The theme for Heritage Week 2020 is ‘Heritage and Education: Learning from our Heritage’. Engaging with our shared heritage presents a rich source for learning, and an opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with the knowledge, traditions and skills of our ancestors. This year, we encourage everybody to explore the close connection between education and heritage, and to consider what our heritage can teach us about our past, what it can tell us about…
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Autumn Equinox
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September Monday, September 21st: Autumn Equinox “No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face.” Elegy IX: The Autumnal by John Donne Septmber 21 is the autumnal (or fall) equinox, the day when the sun crosses the celestial equator and the earth has the same amount of daylight as darkness.Equinox time is a time of equilibrium and balance, of harmony and stillness. For us in the Northern Hemisphere the autumn equinox marks the…
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A Celebration of Samhain: All Saint and All Souls
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“The edge is a holy place, or as the Celts called it, “a thin place” and you have to be taught how to live there. To take your position on the spiritual edge of things is to learn how to move safely in and out, back and forth, across and return.” Richard Rohr Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons. The light at Bealtaine on May…
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Winter Solstice: Darkness into Light
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It is here between the darkness And the light, That we wait... Ruth Patterson “This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of, and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.” Margaret Atwood More information nearer date.
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