Day 9: Enjoy a leisurely morning with breakfast. Then a later start to Dublin. Stopping along the way in Athlone to visit Clonmacnoise. Then on into Howth to visit Malahide Castle and Gardens. Check into Maldron Airport Hotel and then onto a dinner and show for your final night.
REFLECTION
Clonmacnoise
The Christian community is portrayed in the Gospel of John as a community of friends and equals. Those who believe in the equality and partnership of women and men as demonstrated from the earliest days of Christianity would relate well to St. Cannera’s story. This spunky, courageous Irish lady would be a great model for twenty-first century workers for equality and justice in Church and society. She presents a paradigm of a strong and loving confrontation with male authority that goes to the heart of the matter: Are women created in the image of God or not?
Cannera spoke her truth directly to St. Senan, a Celtic monk, when she asked for hospitality on Scattery Island. Initially he refused her entrance into his monastery and protested: “Women cannot enter on this island.” “How can you say that?” inquired Cannera. “Christ came for women no less than men.” “You are persistent, admitted Senan.” He relented and offered her hospitality. St. Cannera is a role model today for all who advocate the equality and partnership of women and men in church and society. Praying With Celtic Holy Women (2003) Bridget Mary Meehan and Regina Madonna Oliver, pp.62-63.
PRAYER
Saint Cannera, may we be courageous trailblazers like you, unafraid to afflict the comfortable, name the sin of bias, and live the vision of radical equality at the heart of the Jesus-vision in the Gospels.
May we be advocates for all women and do all that we can to advance the cause of their equal status. With you, we dream a new vision of mutuality and partnership as we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
A Prayer Celebrating Courageous Women
V. Cannera, as one gutsy Irish woman, you believed that women were also friends of Jesus, and you gave voice to your vision.
R. May all who see us, see Jesus Christ.
V. Cannera, accompanied by the fire of the Holy Spirit, you knew God was with you. You experienced God’s glory in your vision. You insisted to Senan that you came to live in mutuality.
R. May we see the glory of God in each person.
V. Cannera, you knew that your experience revealed God. You did not return to your hermitage and pout when Senan rejected you. Rather, you hung in there and persistently made your case.
R. May we speak the truth with love.
V. Cannera, show us the way to Passionate Love. May we act as if our vision of the future is now a reality.
R. May we experience the joy of the Risen One in our waking and sleeping, in our dreams and desires.
A Blessing for All Your Kin
May the fire of God’s love warm your hearts.
May God grant your prayers of healing
for the broken and the wounded.
May the Love of Christ be in your hearts for everyone.
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May you be held in the palm of God’s hand.
Woman’s Spirit
words and music: Marvella McPartland & Lynn Fugua
sung by: Karen Drucker
https://youtu.be/K4UTqvXeyl8
Woman’s Spirit is beauty
Woman’s Spirit runs deep
Woman loves with compassion
Our perfection is complete…
Woman’s Spirit is graceful
Woman’s Spirit is wise
Woman’s Spirit is moving
Bringing love into our lives...
The Christian community is portrayed in the Gospel of John as a community of friends and equals. Those who believe in the equality and partnership of women and men as demonstrated from the earliest days of Christianity would relate well to St. Cannera’s story. This spunky, courageous Irish lady would be a great model for twenty-first century workers for equality and justice in Church and society. She presents a paradigm of a strong and loving confrontation with male authority that goes to the heart of the matter: Are women created in the image of God or not?
Cannera spoke her truth directly to St. Senan, a Celtic monk, when she asked for hospitality on Scattery Island. Initially he refused her entrance into his monastery and protested: “Women cannot enter on this island.” “How can you say that?” inquired Cannera. “Christ came for women no less than men.” “You are persistent, admitted Senan.” He relented and offered her hospitality. St. Cannera is a role model today for all who advocate the equality and partnership of women and men in church and society. Praying With Celtic Holy Women (2003) Bridget Mary Meehan and Regina Madonna Oliver, pp.62-63.
PRAYER
Saint Cannera, may we be courageous trailblazers like you, unafraid to afflict the comfortable, name the sin of bias, and live the vision of radical equality at the heart of the Jesus-vision in the Gospels.
May we be advocates for all women and do all that we can to advance the cause of their equal status. With you, we dream a new vision of mutuality and partnership as we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
A Prayer Celebrating Courageous Women
V. Cannera, as one gutsy Irish woman, you believed that women were also friends of Jesus, and you gave voice to your vision.
R. May all who see us, see Jesus Christ.
V. Cannera, accompanied by the fire of the Holy Spirit, you knew God was with you. You experienced God’s glory in your vision. You insisted to Senan that you came to live in mutuality.
R. May we see the glory of God in each person.
V. Cannera, you knew that your experience revealed God. You did not return to your hermitage and pout when Senan rejected you. Rather, you hung in there and persistently made your case.
R. May we speak the truth with love.
V. Cannera, show us the way to Passionate Love. May we act as if our vision of the future is now a reality.
R. May we experience the joy of the Risen One in our waking and sleeping, in our dreams and desires.
A Blessing for All Your Kin
May the fire of God’s love warm your hearts.
May God grant your prayers of healing
for the broken and the wounded.
May the Love of Christ be in your hearts for everyone.
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May you be held in the palm of God’s hand.
Woman’s Spirit
words and music: Marvella McPartland & Lynn Fugua
sung by: Karen Drucker
Woman’s Spirit is beauty
Woman’s Spirit runs deep
Woman loves with compassion
Our perfection is complete…
Woman’s Spirit is graceful
Woman’s Spirit is wise
Woman’s Spirit is moving
Bringing love into our lives...
Woman’s Spirit is passion
Woman’s Spirit is birth
Woman’s power unfolding
To honor life on earth.
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