{"id":3131,"date":"2008-03-06T01:02:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T01:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/kvetching\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T01:02:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T01:02:26","slug":"kvetching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/kvetching\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Catholic Kvetch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Ad%C3%A9%27s%20Saint%20Patrick.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ad%C3%A9%27s%20Saint%20Patrick.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Ad%C3%A9%27s%20Saint%20Patrick-thumb.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day Secularized<\/strong><br \/>\nI wanted to buy a few cards for Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day to send to family and friends both in Ireland and in the U.S.  The cards I saw in local shops were entirely secular, apart from a few sentimental &#8220;Irish Blessing&#8221; motifs. Many were in poor taste.  Some were downright offensive.  Even our local <em>Celtica<\/em> shop had precious little in the way of images of Saint Patrick.  I irked the chirpy sales lady by saying that her so-called Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day cards were . . . heathen!<br \/>\n<strong>Remembering Ad&eacute;<\/strong><br \/>\nMy mentor of thirty-five years ago, Catholic artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicworker.org\/bethune.htm\">Ad&eacute; B&eacute;thune<\/a>, found her vocation when Dorothy Day asked her to make some good images of the saints.  <a href=\"http:\/\/images.stkate.edu\/index.php\">Ad&eacute;&#8217;s saints<\/a> appeared in the pages of the Catholic Worker.  They were later printed as greeting cards and holy pictures.  Conception Abbey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printeryhouse.org\/ProdMenu.asp?cid=445\">Printery House<\/a> has some decent Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day cards.  There may be other sources too.  Terry N. would know.  For the most part what I saw today was . . . heathen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day Secularized I wanted to buy a few cards for Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day to send to family and friends both in Ireland and in the U.S. The cards I saw in local shops were entirely secular, apart from a few sentimental &#8220;Irish Blessing&#8221; motifs. Many were in poor taste. Some were downright offensive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Ov","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}