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What a gift to hear you sing and watch you play the harp. Thank you! Inspiring, beautiful, and so rich.

Nollaig Shona Duit..☘️ Alban Arthur..❄️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Your face lights up when you read these beautiful poems and stories ❤ You have a beautiful spirit 🩵🙏🏻😇☘️ Thank you for sharing this

I was told that during the persecution , when the church was underground , and priests were being arrested and killed,a candle was light. It was light to let the priest know what house the mass could be celebrated.

Thank ya Kate for the spooky story Some is so true in the life of my self ✌️❤️

You are an inspiration...thank you for sharing your heart with us!!!

Kate, Thank ya for your teachings I was I could do what I want for I was a smart girl well has I am older 66 yrs. old I believe that now and I was never to late for what ya want I just enjoy your wisdom Thank ya So Much Kate ✌️❤️

Cloves pressed into oranges, a Solstice altar with greens, lights, bears, a stag, a crow... and the Cloved oranges. For dinner, beef and acorn squash, bread. Lights in the windows. Intentions set. Thank you for your shares. Cute kitties!

Thank you Kate. I love starting my days with your videos. I go back and watch ones that I've seen as I go back and listen to my favorite music. You give me such a deep understanding of Ireland and the Irish. Christmas has always been a special time with our family and friends.

Ahhh Kate, I watch this surrounded by flour, sugar, butter, eggs and so on, and my grandmother's recipes! I usually only bake my mom's Christmas Cake, but this year have been inspired to bake shortbread, mince pies and jam tarts (apricot jam topped with a buttery coconut mixture). The treats I remember so well from my childhood, so I think my "preparation" portion is in the shape of baking this year! ☺️ I don't light candles but I do have some fairy lights outside as well, and to me Christmas is ALWAYS magical... 😆☺️✨💫✨✨✨ Thank you for your beautiful videos. I wish you a blessed and beautiful Christmas 🙏🎄💫✨

Kate, you are an inspiration to us all, you brought so many memories back to me about my mother and father in rural Ireland, who carried on those traditions and practises.After many years of living abroad, I am now 74 years old, your stories are so beautiful, I feel that you were living in my home, with the open hearth fire and the joy of Christmas. Your knowledge and use of the Irish language is perfect, wish I’d had you as my teacher in my youth. Nollaig Shona agus Dia duit, gurra maith agat.

In my native New Mexico we line the houses and sidewalks with luminarias (paper bags with sand in the bottom and a votive candle) to light the way of the Christ Child on Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas Kate.

Slan Kate❤

Thank you Katie May God continue protecting you and your family

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Lighting candles and letting magic happen

What a lovely post, Kate. Clean house, candles, cats and hospitality; Jesus visits, loved that one! Poetry galore and stories to tell. Decking the halls that all may be well. What a feast we'll have at that time; listen my friend its the bell that they chime. Peace, joy and happiness through the season Kate. Have yourself a merry little Christmass and may God continue to bless you, Thanks for the post...Dave

Lovely memories, being generous, lighting a candle.

They are all sweet traditions, different from America.

Dear Kate, thank you for sharing these three lovely Irish customs. They touch my heart. My heritage is German, Hungarian, and Croatian. Growing up it has been a custom to clean the house and ready your heart to receive the Christ Child. You fasted in the four weeks (Advent) leading up to Christmas. Christmas was celebrated over three days. The first day you celebrated with your immediate family. The second day you visited your relatives. The third day you welcomed relatives, friends, neighbors into your house. These are similar to the Irish customs. I don’t recall candles being lit. So I choose your custom of candles to light the way of the Holy Family to welcome them into my home. Merry Christmas, dear Kate.

Hello dear Kate 😘. Nollaig Shona Dhuit ! I hope this is correct, Gwaelige? I found this greeting on Irish Christmas music site, with Uillean pipes. Your video today touched me deeply and spoke to my genetic memory of Ireland. For me, I think the preparation and cleaning would be the ritual closest to my heart.. I start preparing weeks ahead, and it's only me living in this wee apartment. I keep the ornaments pretty natural with candles 🕯 for Advent and evergreen boughs for the vases. Pine and cedar mostly. I prepare an "Alter" with white flowers and various Christian objects along side my white Buddha. The Dalai Lama said that practicing Buddhism makes one a better Christian. ✝️🕉 Personally, embrace all goodness and creativity ✨️. That's why I watch your channel, Kate. The stories of candles in the windows and the farm animals speaking at midnight are hopeful and delightful. Thank you. 🎄✨️💖🙏

Thank ya Kate for your teaching of the Irish customs Cool looking kitty ❤️🎄✌️

Not relevant in today’s Ireland

Such a wonderful video! Thank you, Kate, for teaching us so much ! Your words are charged with such wonder and excitement… Merry Christmas!

Have always lit candles! Not just around Christmas, but other occasions too, in my window(s), as a centre piece or on a little "alter". Interesting you mentioned the cleaning and white washing, as I had been very tempted the last two weeks or so, washing down all my walls😊

I love this so very much. Thank you. ❤

Hi Kate I love you're videos and stories ,I live in West Cork Ireland ,and as a child I remember my grandmother's and my mother would do exactly like you said ,the house would be cleaned and a spring of holly would be put over every picture and a candle was put in every window ,we where also told the candles where to healp the lost souls home and to send light and hope to all the imigrants who had imigrated in the hope they would return ,the fire would be left lit in the herth so they would have heath when they came home and food would be left out for them ,happy christmas kate to you and youres and to all youre viewers ,love from bantry bay ,west cork ❤️🙏🎄🇨🇮💚🍀

I have an orange kitty just like yours, and he is also very naughty! I loved the story about the farmer, as it is a reminder that the magic world is offered to us in many ways, but we shouldn't cheat the experience.

Very powerful indeed!! Thank you for your channel, hearing Gaelic in real time takes me to wonder how my ancesters spoke. Merry Christmas!!!

Dear Kate I am so happy to follow you! I did a small write up in our monthly Kindness Connection newsletter about you and emailed to your website email. Hope you received this and I am sending you a basket of little hugs, a sky full of sparkling stars and a river that flows with Love, Laara WilliamSen, Canada

So beautiful. Some 55 years ago, here in Kentucky, I watched a Christmas special cartoon where the animals in the barn were able to speak on Christmas Eve. So lovely. That has been in my heart all these years. Thank you for bringing it back to me.

Would love to see that. Prayer, in Irish, in the note section. And the poem too.

Thank you Kate!

What wonderful memories your video brought back to me. The candles, hospitality, and the gift of speech to our animal friends. I'm grateful that I found your channel. Thank you so much.

You dont know how much I needed that story. 🙏 Thank you.

When the days preparations are done in readiness for Christmas. How lovely it is Kate, to listen to you, reminding me(us) of what it's all about, of why we prepare and that all living beings rejoice.

SONAS ORT

Hi Kate, I've always enjoyed the season of Advent as well as Christmas since I was little. Now as an older person, I find lots of meaning in the sermons each Sunday in Advent, as well as the lighting of each of the four candles in the Advent wreath. Even if I can't put up a Christmas tree, I still look forward to and enjoy Christmas so much! There is magic in church, in my home, and in the homes of the ones I love most. I treasure a CD album, A Celtic Christmas. One of the songs is the best version of "Ding Dong Merrily on High" I ever heard. It was performed by Frankie Gavin with The Carl Hession Orchestra, and you can find it on RUclips. It's played like a reel, and I can picture the country dance that goes with it. I could go on - I love every song in the album! BTW - I love that a neighbor has electric candles in every window of her house. It's comforting to see them on a dark night. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas yourself!

Thank you as always Kate for sharing your deep knowledge of the Soul of Ireland with those of us who are wandering in a cultural wilderness -- & go raibh mile maith agat for sharing the Irish as well as the translation -- even though I've lost most of what I learned I *love* hearing the language spoken 💚For traditions, it's the return of the Light for me -- the Winter Solstice is probably my most 'high holy day' for, as you said, it's a point every year where all the closing and darkening begins to turn the other way -- it's the part of the story that I enter into every time. 🌚

I love this so much. The Christmas season is filled with sweetness and magic. Focusing on the true things and not the commercial rush is the way to see it. What I love to do is to anonymously make someone's day. And, always feed the birds, the deer, the squirrels, and the chipmunks. They do speak and show gratitude in their own way though unnecessary. I love watching your kitties run up the stairs.

Ah lovely. Been preparing my house since December 6th. I line between Burtonport and Dungloe. Getting ready fir the magic.

Truly beautiful Kate! Thank you for sharing your love and light!

You so look like Meryly Streep

Thank you Candle's 🕯️

Oh Kate , thank you thank you, just simplicity.. Listening to you, As Gaeilga. I'm on my own now, this Xmas.. But, yes, The Animals do, Hear what we don't.. Gorra math agut.

I believe in the magic 🎄😊💕

I💚thank you 😂

For this year, my husband and I will put candles in the windows. We have to work on the Soltice so we will put electric candles in the widows for that day. We can put more traditional candles in the windows during Christmas. I love that when you share Irish, you give the translation to English. It helps me use Irish more often. Thank you.

Dear Kate,i love to see your videos and listening to your stories.I don't understand Gaelic but the sound has musicality that's bring you in an ancestral world.Love candles and the preparation of our interior space, Friday school days ends and stard Christmas holidays..iam going to slow down.Thanks to you 🙏🏻