THE BRENDAN OPTION 007 | Being 'Irish' Catholic

"Is it possible that the Holy Spirit might be speaking to us in #Irish and most of us haven't got a clue what He's saying?"
Join Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne for episode 7 of 'The Brendan Option' where he discusses the importance of Irish Catholicism.
Visit our website: www.immaculataproductions.org
#Christian #God #JesusChrist #CatholicMedia #Catholic #Christianity #Orthodox #Tradition #Ireland #TheBrendanOption #ImmaculataProductions
-
-
-
--------------- SUPPORT US ---------------
Patreon: / immaculataproductions
PayPal: www.paypal.me/ImmaculataProct...
Our work won't be possible without your help. Thank you! ...And a special thank you to those who have already given us so much support!
--------------- FOLLOW US ---------------
There's the Benedict option, the Dominic option, and now we have the Brendan Option! Whilst you would have found St. Brendan voyaging the seas, our very own Brendan can be found as you surf the net. ⛵️
✔ W E B S I T E
www.immaculataproductions.org
✔ F A C E B O O K
/ immaculataproductions
✔ I N S T A G R A M
/ immaculataproductions
✔ T W I T T E R
/ immaculatamedia
✔ L I N K E D I N
/ immaculataproductions
✔ V I M E O
www.vimeo.com/ImmaculataProdu...
✔ E M A I L
[e-mail]
All Rights Reserved © 2021, Immaculata Productions

[@afrosteeve]

Cardinal Sarah on Poland, a Catholic country that has strict immigration policies, and said he had urged it not to sacrifice its Polish and Catholic identities “on the altar of a technocratic and stateless Europe.” "She (Poland) is free to tell Europe that everyone was created by God to be placed in a specific place, with its culture, traditions, and history,” he told the paper. “This current desire to globalize the world by suppressing nations, specificities, is pure madness.”

[@thevintagegypsy5325]

My great grandparents came to America from Ireland and my grandmother and my daddy use to speak Gaelic when they didn't want us to know what they were talking about and then they stopped when my grandmother got elderly..don't know why. Our home was very Irish and now at 57 I am so wanting to get that back. I wish I had gone to live there in my youth just for a time. I applaud you Father for speaking out about it. We need that Irish grit in these times. I will add Ireland to my prayer list...and I will add you and the other priests also.

[@domedweller4202]

I would love to go to Holy Mass said in Irish.I went to one years ago, I remember how beautiful it was.

[@nichola8127]

You are my new best friend Father. Thank you.

[@juneschlebusch6679]

Mine as well. Just come across him. So grateful.

[@juneschlebusch6679]

I do not have a drop of Irish blood in me that I know of but I have had a love of the Irish ever since I can remember. To listen the music or the language fills me with supreme joy. I can't explain it. I think Ireland is the Isle of magic. But much more than just that. It just captivates my heart.

[@imeldatear9250]

Thank you Father, there is a lot of food for thought here.

[@briansmith1780]

Well spoken Father Brendan.

[@clarefrenchum9696]

I love the Irish greeting of God and Mary be with you. ♥

[@maireodonoghue428]

I’m a Conservative Irish Catholic and I will always be proud of being an Irish Catholic and will not drop the Irish bit . We have an incredible History to look back on

[@LiveaCatholicLife]

Without Ireland, the USA wouldn't know the beauty of the one true faith!

[@mick1gallagher]

You deluded sick clown

[@marcokite]

Orthodoxy

[@albieinangelus921]

How true!!

[@AnBrocMeala]

Michael Hartnett when he decided to confine his writing of poetry to the Irish language bade goodbye to English, in “A Farewell to English” which includes the lines: “But I will not see great men go down who walked in rags from town to town finding English a necessary sin the perfect language to sell pigs in.” Sentiments which reflect your comments re Devalera etc. An interesting man Hartnett. We need more like him

[@betterd9160]

I am an Italian Irish Catholic from America. We are a race upon ourselves here. In America I hear constantly about Catholic guilt which I never feel because I believe in the understanding of Christ. My Godfather is from Belfast. I remember visiting Ireland in the 80s and saw Priests laying prostrate at the Alter which made me realize the Irish don’t pretend. Somehow, here in America, it is believed that the Catholics are guilt ridden lost souls. I don’t believe it. I’m going to be an Irish Catholic even though I’m so far away. Thanks Father for this video. I hope you are ok and Merry Christmas. PS when I was last in Ireland it was during the hunger strikes and the death of Bobby Sands. I will never forget him.

[@notamused3715]

Being born, reared and living most of my life in England, the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants, maybe I can give my perspective, as I'm still a bit of an outsider, a blow -in? The way I see it is, Irish culture and Irishness itself is still far more alive and relevant to everyday life than Englishness is to the English nor has been for a very long time. Englishness and English culture has been dissolving in the acid of multi-culturalism for decades and I couldn't even define what is unique about it anymore, nor do I think many could! However, if the Irish people, especially Irish Catholics, don't make a decision to keep hold of everything that makes them uniquely Irish now, soon Irishness may well be dissolved in that acid too. The country is being covertly run by Big Tech and their "woke" ideology is corrupting Ireland and may eventually rot it altogether unless the Irish people decide once and for all to stubbornly and unapologetically BE Irish and to remain so for all time! Unlike Englishness, which I think is all but lost, the Irish still have a good chance of holding onto Irishness but IMO, they need to hold onto Catholicism in order to so, as it is the only antidote to the false religion of "Woke" that the new foreign occupiers, Big Tech, are manipulating the country into taking on! Just my tuppence worth!

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

I love Ireland and Irish stuff and the poetry of your language. I grew up in Fremch and Irish Catholic Churches. We need them all. Plus Irish are so funny. ❤❤❤ And Ireland is God's Country especially in the west.

[@RogerBuck]

Whoa . . . ! This is very strange. Third video I've watched since discovering your channel, Father. And while I'm (largely) British (though living in Ireland) you are uncannily echoing my own thoughts about the loss of Irish identity this week, as I ponder Pearse, Dev, the early Fianna Fail. Particularly this week. Very strange but also very wonderful . . .

[@chrismalone910]

I traveled to Ireland with my son a few years ago and was so disappointed that the traditions I was longing to see were missing. I love knitting and I thought there would be exquisite knitting shops everywhere!!! Ach! I couldn’t find any!! There are more serious knitting shops in California. I was stunned and so disappointed. Where are all the sheep? The flax fields? The weaving shops??? My son who is quite a traveler says the world is now all the same because of the internet!! Is it true our identities are gone?

[@donalenright9988]

That was brilliant Fr Brendan as always

[@hereknow7]

Great stuff! Resonates deeply with me.

[@martinlee465]

Seek first the Kingdom of God and everything you need will be given unto you

[@patdoty788]

YES!! I am with you!! From Pennsylvania, an Irish catholic family I am 100% with you

[@77agape]

important discussion !

[@nightshift4587]

I know this Priest, his delivery is superb. His homilies are always compelling. Thank God.

[@afrosteeve]

“The ideology of liberal individualism promotes a mixing that is designed to erode the natural borders of homelands and cultures, and leads to a post-national and one-dimensional world where the only things that matter are consumption and production.” Cardinal Robert Sarah. Dúisigí muintir na hÉireann.

[@frankielavelle2864]

Well worth a try. I would struggle unless the Mass leaflets are printed as gaeilge but if I had it to read aloud it would come back to me.

[@aliciahennessy]

I am Irish. If I had to transfer... England watch out!

[@GerryKirwan]

Interesting insights however there seems to be a bit of cultural cringe lurking in your comments. We must never forget that the English did their best to eliminate both population and culture in Ireland. From Cromwellian rule to Penal laws to the catastrophic Great Famine. Their cultural influence still resonates today 100 years after the Republics Independence. Our Catholicism remained even though our language declined. I think Irish Catholics need to awaken themselves once more to our cultural heritage. We must never forget that the consequences of Colonization are far reaching. Keep up the good work. God Bless

[@jimbob9558]

Surely it is that since the introduction of abortion and the denigration of marriage that we as Catholics have abandoned the irish culture and have taken up the culture of Catholicism in its stead. What is culture but unifying beliefs, practices and the dept of wisdom? Irish-ness has something to offer in dealing with oppressive britannic rule but nothing to offer in spiritual welfare. It is commonly said that the irishman sits at the last pew, to make a quick escape. How can we turn to this "Irish Catholicism" as a place of inspiration? Better is it to be the culture of the saints and scholars!

[@deaconken3752]

I like the observation that we'll go across continents to go on pilgrimage but won't go to the one in our own state. Are they pilgrimages or vacations? I'll try to go to the local ones more often.

[@Beanbag777]

I’m not a fan of the Irish language liturgy anyway . It’s been ruined by Sean O Riada and the like who’s “liturgical music” wouldn’t go amiss in a shindig in a pub in rural Kerry . The church has given us Latin and Gregorian chant and inculturation is an area that needs to be visited very carefully.

[@afrosteeve]

Tá ár dteanga lán le Dia, úsáid í a chairde. Coisreachán Dé ort a athair.

[@RobertFallon]

Father, There seems to be a considerable backstory to what you’re speaking of here. Unfortunately, I don’t know that story, and found it hard to understand your perspective. It seems you’re proposing that the Irish Church adopt Irish its liturgies. Has this been forbidden in Irish-speaking areas? As an historian, I suggest you determine what Irish Catholicism means by articulating what Irish Catholicism has meant. I wish to know the answer to that question, and that is how I found your video. For many, I suspect it means a history of strictness, cruelty, and abuse within Irish Catholic institions, as it did, say, to James Joyce. But what else, and what positive, may it also be?

[@kevevo6mayo]

I have a huge dislike of the Irish Language since National school because of the way it was beat into us at school. I think the Holy Spirit speaks to our hearts In the language of love

[@raydmurphy]

If there's anything that Christianity tells us, and what is written through this episode is the need to discover the responsibility to be more Irish. No state can replenish us with our Irishness-That's our duty. It's not optional to be Irish or not because how bad the civil service and govt might have done trying to reverse the colonisation. It's not a govt job. We need to be Irish despite them. Why not start reversing the English prayers of the basics such as the Hail Mary and Our father, and pray in Irish? That's what I do. Don't reject the problem, own it.

[@marianlindsay1737]

I had maths beaten into me (every day for years) and hated the subject. However I do not blame the subject of Maths but bad teaching methods and would despite this have a respect for maths.

[@johnpurcell7525]

Was Michael Collins an extreme Nationalist Fanatic

[@forevercurious1724]

I am a Boston born Catholic with four Irish grandparents(1 Cork, 1 Kerry, and 2 Waterford), three of whom I knew well and two with whom I lived. They came during the first decade of the 20th century. None could speak Irish. I visited Ireland in 1983 for a week. I remember in Dublin a formally dressed man ascended the bus stairs and said something to the young woman punching tickets. She asked him to repeat what he said, and he raised his voice saying, "Can't you speak Irish?" From what you have said, Father, it seems that either there is little interest on the part of Irish people to learn the language or the method of teaching it is not effective. It has been done with other languages such as Hebrew, a language that was primarily used for religious purposes, which was transformed into the vernacular and national language of Israel. Is there a desire in Ireland to do the same? A second reaction I have to the video concerns the question of Catholicism in Ireland. My understanding is that it has changed considerably from its introduction. I would think that the Irish church changed considerably after the Norman invasion/invitation. They claimed they were entering Ireland to reform the Irish church after Pope Adrian pronounced his bull. Was the Penal Law church the same as the famine church or even the post republic church. I doubt it. I think that the culture affects how Catholicism manifests in a particular place. In that way, there is an Irish church as there is an Irish way of looking at life. Thank you and imaculata for your interesting videos. God bless!

[@johnpurcell7525]

Who did best job at destroying Irish Catholicism Cromwell or People of Ireland

[@patrickhardman2568]

Revelation 17:9, the Whore of Babylon sits on seven mountains, could you please enlighten us on this subject?

[@seanfalconer7182]

I never knew ol' Frank could speak chinese... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@patdoty788]

my family is Irish catholic its so weird

[@caucasity5941]

Extreme nationalism' is based. God created the Irish along with the Africans but a mouse born in a barn is not a horse.

[@dodi7420]

If ya don’t be careful the Americans will be the Irish Catholics and the Irish will be Protestant 😖

[@Orourkebanjo]

I really disagree with the concept of the new ‘irish’. I don’t care about what word you call me, and you shouldn’t either. With all due respect father let me suggest you have a bit of courage here. Stop with the walking on eggshells. If it’s true it’s true, and the truth is that to be Irish is to be ethnically Gaelic. It always has been and always will be the truth! The Irish language is absolutely worth it, and it shouldn’t even be a question.

[@patrickhardman2568]

Call no man your father except your father in heaven??

[@spilkafurtseva1918]

Lol

[@marcokite]

i assume you know you're taking this out of context?? how about 'call no man teacher' ? are you lobbying for teachers not to be called teachers by their pupils? St Paul called himself a 'father' and St Stephen called the Jewish leaders 'fathers' etc

[@patrickhardman2568]

All have sinned including your Pope. Stop worshiping him. Peter refused worship many times.

[@cathalhendron3941]

Catholics don't worship the Pope

[@northernsoul3485]

Patrick H sWhat a weird thing to say? Totally off topic and untrue😳. Great chat as always Fr Brendan

[@patrickhardman2568]

@@northernsoul3485 C church teaches blasphemy (Rom. 3:23 For for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God) How did Mary go from sinner to omnipresent prayer answerer? (1 Tim. 2:5 there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.) (Eph. 2:9 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.) How do you earn your way out of purgatory? Rev 22:18,19 If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. I love you, you will be judged by Gods word . Do your priests encourage you to read it? 2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

[@forevercurious1724]

I admire your conviction, but your arguments are better taken to the plethora of websites dealing with those issues. This video is on a different topic. God bless.

[@marcokite]

as no Catholic has EVER 'worshipped' the pope, your comment is meaningless