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!
Dear Kate, Preparations for Christmas, even in the smallest way is a life long way for me. Cleaning for sure and I always manage to buy something new, just like mum, even if its just a cushion or two for the home. I rememer after my mother died. I didnt want to put the lights on in the window, feeling the gaeity of it was inappropriate ,my sister said but we must put a little light in the window to guied the spirits home. We didn't know then that we had Irish ancestor, on my mothers side. Magic indeed. Thank you so much for a lovely video. Bright blessings to you and yours.
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.
dear Kate..........I love your videos.........I live here in Germany the irish way......I have an irish advent arrangement with the 5 candles..........3 lila,one rosa,one white.............I have decorated my home this year very christmaslike..................and I told you that I go in a home for elder people.....on Thursdays I read from Books......at the moment the stories from Alice Taylor....;;The Night before Christmas................they love the stories..........................I wish I could understand the irish language,and can speak it............Have a wonderful Christmastime with your family and your beautiful cats......................I will sit here with my Fritz ...........................Blessings and Greetings from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘a wonderful song
Truly, Kate, of the three traditions you shared, it's the magic for me ---because that inspires all else. The mundane, done with great care and intention, becomes magic. The act of selfless hospitality extended to strangers, too, is magic. I've long believed that animals are some of the greatest, most magical gifts on earth, for all they give and share with us. What magic does for me is just as you shared: it becomes the light that dispels the cynicism that at times permeates my thinking like a dark cloud. Thank goodness we're headed back toward the sun with the approaching winter solstice. May the blessings of the light be with you and with everyone here.
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, every tradition you shared and the way you expressed it, wondrous and beautiful. You, they, bring us in, make us part of the miracle Christmas is, in a warm, welcoming, human way. Thank you! I love every one, and they will surely inform our family's holiday. I love hearing tbe Irish.
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.
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 love your videos with my whole heart. I love the affirmation your insights give to the whispers and leanings I have actioned throughout the years. So much information comes through the genetic memory, and I find that I have followed many customs and practices without explicit instruction. Your delivery and interweaving of the lore, literature and lived experience is enchanting ✨️✨️✨️❤️❤️❤️🕯🕯🕯
Love every word of this, Kate❣️Love realizing the roots of little customs my mother observed actually came from her ancestors of 1850s potato famine immigrants. Thank you for your podcast and bless you bountifully for the beautiful energy you radiate out into the world❣️
I love this! Preparation, participation and willingness These are all aspects of intention aren't they...a way to align and be open to what's to come. Thank you for sharing that MOST beautiful prayer! I look forward, as always...
Definitely attempt the cleansing preparations. I love the candles & hospitality... I'm always looking for new ways to represent the "return of the sunlight". And, yes! Letting the magic in... We always find something to bring in the wonder of the season ❤️♾️❤️ I love these stories, dear Kate! Thank you so much for sharing!
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 ❤️🙏🎄🇨🇮💚🍀
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.
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 🙏🏻
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for reading both in Gaelic and English the pleasant poetry!! Ii wish more people were like you. 😊❤ There is magic in Amish, if only we could reflect that more in our daily lives! Love and light from BC, Canada. Merry Christmas dear one.♈💖💕
Nollaig Shona from Uisneach in the midlands. Having fond memories of Christmases in The Rosses and in particular in Carrickfin airport one year during a power cut affecting Ranafast, Annagry and Crolly 🤗
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.
The Irish rationale for the candle I did not know. The master and donkey was comfortably dark for Ireland. I liked it. Side note: that is a striking g necklace pendant. 👍🏻 Be well.
Hello dearest Kate, how I enjoy these stories and videos you create, thank you! You and your lovely community may be interested to know the Winter Solstice is live streaming from Newgrange in Ireland on the ‘Office of Public Works’ RUclips channel on 21st December at 8:40am GMT. I watched it a few years ago in lock down (it was a washout 😂 but it was still really special) they even allow a few select members of the community to actually go inside the monument again. Happy Solstice everyone 💛
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
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.
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😊
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!
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 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 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.
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!
Dear Kate,
Preparations for Christmas, even in the smallest way is a life long way for me. Cleaning for sure and I always manage to buy something new, just like mum, even if its just a cushion or two for the home. I rememer after my mother died. I didnt want to put the lights on in the window, feeling the gaeity of it was inappropriate ,my sister said but we must put a little light in the window to guied the spirits home. We didn't know then that we had Irish ancestor, on my mothers side. Magic indeed. Thank you so much for a lovely video. Bright blessings to you and yours.
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.
dear Kate..........I love your videos.........I live here in Germany the irish way......I have an irish advent arrangement with the 5 candles..........3 lila,one rosa,one white.............I have decorated my home this year very christmaslike..................and I told you that I go in a home for elder people.....on Thursdays I read from Books......at the moment the stories from Alice Taylor....;;The Night before Christmas................they love the stories..........................I wish I could understand the irish language,and can speak it............Have a wonderful Christmastime with your family and your beautiful cats......................I will sit here with my Fritz ...........................Blessings and Greetings from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘a wonderful song
Truly, Kate, of the three traditions you shared, it's the magic for me ---because that inspires all else. The mundane, done with great care and intention, becomes magic. The act of selfless hospitality extended to strangers, too, is magic. I've long believed that animals are some of the greatest, most magical gifts on earth, for all they give and share with us. What magic does for me is just as you shared: it becomes the light that dispels the cynicism that at times permeates my thinking like a dark cloud. Thank goodness we're headed back toward the sun with the approaching winter solstice. May the blessings of the light be with you and with everyone here.
❤Thank you Kate!!!❤ (;
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, every tradition you shared and the way you expressed it, wondrous and beautiful. You, they, bring us in, make us part of the miracle Christmas is, in a warm, welcoming, human way. Thank you! I love every one, and they will surely inform our family's holiday. I love hearing tbe Irish.
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.
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 love your videos with my whole heart. I love the affirmation your insights give to the whispers and leanings I have actioned throughout the years. So much information comes through the genetic memory, and I find that I have followed many customs and practices without explicit instruction.
Your delivery and interweaving of the lore, literature and lived experience is enchanting ✨️✨️✨️❤️❤️❤️🕯🕯🕯
Love every word of this, Kate❣️Love realizing the roots of little customs my mother observed actually came from her ancestors of 1850s potato famine immigrants. Thank you for your podcast and bless you bountifully for the beautiful energy you radiate out into the world❣️
I love this! Preparation, participation and willingness These are all aspects of intention aren't they...a way to align and be open to what's to come. Thank you for sharing that MOST beautiful prayer! I look forward, as always...
Yes! I really resonate with what you said about it all being intention. That's so lovely.
Definitely attempt the cleansing preparations. I love the candles & hospitality... I'm always looking for new ways to represent the "return of the sunlight". And, yes! Letting the magic in... We always find something to bring in the wonder of the season ❤️♾️❤️ I love these stories, dear Kate! Thank you so much for sharing!
Lovely to hear all these stories and myths from Ireland ....ancestors all came from Ireland...the O Reilys
Thank ya Kate for your teaching of the Irish customs Cool looking kitty ❤️🎄✌️
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 ❤️🙏🎄🇨🇮💚🍀
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.
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 🙏🏻
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.
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.
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.
Loved this, thank you Kate! 💚
One needs to to speak to kitties about staying grounded amidst internet celebrity 🐱🐱 🤣
Thank you Katie
May God continue protecting you and your family
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.
Yes! I remember watching that movie as a small child in the early 60's. I can't remember the name though.
Yes! I remember watching that movie as a small child in the early 60's. I can't remember the name though.
Yes! I remember watching that movie as a small child in the early 60's. I can't remember the name though.
Yes! I remember watching that movie as a small child in the early 60's. I can't remember the name though.
@@debbiesittard7653 I can't either but it sure made an impact on me.
Thank you for reading both in Gaelic and English the pleasant poetry!! Ii wish more people were like you. 😊❤ There is magic in Amish, if only we could reflect that more in our daily lives! Love and light from BC, Canada. Merry Christmas dear one.♈💖💕
Lighting candles and letting magic happen
Such a wonderful video! Thank you, Kate, for teaching us so much ! Your words are charged with such wonder and excitement… Merry Christmas!
Ah lovely. Been preparing my house since December 6th. I line between Burtonport and Dungloe. Getting ready fir the magic.
Nollaig Shona from Uisneach in the midlands. Having fond memories of Christmases in The Rosses and in particular in Carrickfin airport one year during a power cut affecting Ranafast, Annagry and Crolly 🤗
I believe in the magic 🎄😊💕
Very powerful indeed!! Thank you for your channel, hearing Gaelic in real time takes me to wonder how my ancesters spoke. Merry Christmas!!!
Would love to see that. Prayer, in Irish, in the note section.
And the poem too.
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.
Lovely memories, being generous, lighting a candle.
The Irish rationale for the candle I did not know. The master and donkey was comfortably dark for Ireland. I liked it. Side note: that is a striking g necklace pendant. 👍🏻 Be well.
Hello dearest Kate, how I enjoy these stories and videos you create, thank you! You and your lovely community may be interested to know the Winter Solstice is live streaming from Newgrange in Ireland on the ‘Office of Public Works’ RUclips channel on 21st December at 8:40am GMT. I watched it a few years ago in lock down (it was a washout 😂 but it was still really special) they even allow a few select members of the community to actually go inside the monument again. Happy Solstice everyone 💛
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
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.
I💚thank you 😂
Merry Christmas Kate.
Thank you 🎉. ❤
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😊
Thank you
Candle's
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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 for this post. It is very similar to my past.
Oh and thank you for the Frankie Gavin with The Carl Hession Orchestra feference.
I love this so very much. Thank you. ❤
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.
You are also a beautiful lady,
Thank you 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. 🎄✨️💖🙏
❤
Slan Kate❤
You so look like
Meryly Streep
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 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.
They are all sweet traditions, different from America.
Not relevant in today’s Ireland