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Post by Tomas on Jul 18, 2018 10:06:28 GMT
Could someone tell what saint it is that has been credited by the habit of after every confession immediately beginning to prepare for his next? Please excuse if the names got mixed up! If I got it right St Columcille and Columba are one and the same while Columban and him are perhaps not the only saints with this or similar name neither.
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Post by cato on Jul 18, 2018 12:17:28 GMT
I am not sure who the saint you refer to in your first question is.
You got it right with Columba/Colmcille/Columban(us) . Sometimes Columba who evangelised Scotland is called Columba the elder and Columbanus who evangelised mainland Europe is called Columba the younger.
Columba is Latin for the Dove and the Holy Spirit. In Hebrew it's Jonah.
There is a female Saint Columba in France.
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Post by Séamus on Jul 18, 2018 23:52:48 GMT
Could someone tell what saint it is that has been credited by the habit of after every confession immediately beginning to prepare for his next? Please excuse if the names got mixed up! If I got it right St Columcille and Columba are one and the same while Columban and him are perhaps not the only saints with this or similar name neither. I'm not familiar with the confession practise, but both Columba and Columbanus had fairly early lives written and are probably among the most documented of Celtic Saints. A lot of historians attribute the current rites of confession in the Roman Church to these Saints and their followers, suggesting that confession in Europe was usually communal(such as is sometimes now practiced by some of the 'new movements') before the Celtic/Irish tradition of 'penitent and priest alone' was disseminated by missionaries from Celtic lands. The Synod of Whitby rather than causing this to stop actually succeeded in sowing this further, as monks and nuns slowly assimilated to the mainstream church. I've read more than one expert who thinks so. Because 'columba' really comes from the Latin for dove it's not impossible that the name was used in other languages; besides the recent Bl Columba Marmion, I've noticed European virgin-martyrs with the name. A footnote(irrelevant, I'm afraid)- I once read a piece in a Salesian publication of a recently beatified young man, who I thought at the time would be a good patron for politicians or for praying to coming up to elections. I forgot the name for years, but came across him yesterday. Bl Alberto Marvelli. Worth reading up on. |
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Post by Séamus on Nov 23, 2019 8:44:29 GMT
Happy feast of St Columbanus (not to be confused with Columcille ),of particular interest at the moment because I'm reading COLUMBANUS IN HIS OWN WORDS by Tomás O'Fiaich 1974,which I came across in someone's collection.
O'Fiaich is simply titled as 'Father',which in hindsight sounds strange knowing that he'd become Cardinal Tomás by the end of the 70s.
And,despite the title,only half the book consists of the saint's writings,much of it being O'Fiaich's commentary on Columbanus' life,as an historian and 1943 Celtic studies graduate (so it tells us). I'd actually thought Celtic studies was a more recent phenomena.
Not sure how the saint's Rule would go down today : "...a leathern strap on the palm of the hand- for coughing at the beginning of a psalm and spoiling the singing,six slaps; for celebrating Mass with untrimmed nails,six slaps; for forgetting to say a prayer before or after work,twelve slaps; for forgetting the Blessed Sacrament when hurrying out to work, twenty-five slaps; for dropping it in the field,fifty slaps..."
The last seems proportionate,but I would have liked His future Eminence to explain how the Host would usually be dropped in a field.
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Post by cato on Jan 11, 2021 17:49:54 GMT
St Columba (Colmcille) was born in 521 and various activities/publications are planned to mark his 1500th birthday this year. I 'll post anything interesting I come across related to him here as 2021 unfolds.
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Post by Tomas on Jan 11, 2021 18:50:13 GMT
St Columba (Colmcille) was born in 521 and various activities/publications are planned to mark his 1500th birthday this year. I 'll post anything interesting I come across related to him here as 2021 unfolds. 1500th birthday, that´s something! Ireland For Ever :-) |
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