{"id":162,"date":"2012-02-01T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=162"},"modified":"2013-07-10T00:19:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:19:04","slug":"the-blessing-of-brigid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/prayers\/the-blessing-of-brigid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of Brigid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thevirtualabbey.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/celtic-prayer-brigid-comrade-woman.html\">The Virtual Abbey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our celebrations, always full of spontaneity, are grounded in our own liturgical traditions. On Brigid\u2019s day, we culminate with this song adapted from \u201cThe Blessing of Brigid\u201d in <i>Carmina Gadelica<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>One group sings over and over:<\/p>\n<p><i>I am under the shielding of Brigid each day,<br \/>\nI am under the shielding of Brigid each night.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>While others sing in counterpart:<\/p>\n<p><i>Brigid is my comrade-woman,<br \/>\nBrigid is my maker of song,<br \/>\nBrigid is my helping-woman,<br \/>\nmy choicest of women,<br \/>\nmy guide.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is incredibly heartfelt and gorgeous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Virtual Abbey: Our celebrations, always full of spontaneity, are grounded in our own liturgical traditions. On Brigid\u2019s day, we culminate with this song adapted from \u201cThe Blessing of Brigid\u201d in Carmina Gadelica: One group sings over and over: I am under the shielding of Brigid each day, I am under the shielding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,4,7,8],"tags":[46,33,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}