BLESSING # 5
May a small piece of straw stick
to your coat as you bring your kids
to the Christmas crib this Christmas.
May the sent of bread and wine
from the Body and Blood of Christ
at the Christ Mass be ever
on your breath and in your words.
And may you be the best Christmas
gift you give to your families and your
friends this Christmas - you being
the Real Presence of Christ - the Way,
the Truth and the Life - to each other.*
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2013
*This is a fifth Irish
Blessing which I just put in my Book of Irish Blessings. It's a book I’ve been working on for years. The word “sent”
is a mistake on purpose. Irish prayers and blessings often have some humor and some word play in them. This one is based on the Old Latin command at the end of Mass:
“Ite Missa est.” “Go you are sent!” Missa - becomes the English word “Mass” -
which means we come to Mass to be sent
into the week with his love and power and grace. Amen.
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