Happy Easter To All

March 31, 2013 By Irish American Mom 6 Comments

Wising everyone around the world a very happy Easter on this Sunday, March 31, 2013. Today many of us will gather with our loved ones to celebrate new beginnings, renewal and the resurrection of Jesus. I hope this weekend you too have the opportunity to be with your loved ones. For those who can not be with family, may the blessings of Easter bring you peace and joy.

Here is a beautiful Irish blessing to help us embrace the spirit of Easter.

Happy Easter To All

“At the breaking of the Easter dawn

May the Risen Savior bless your home

With grace and peace from above,

With joy and laughter, and with love;

And when night is nigh, and day is done

May He keep you safe from all harm.”

Happy Father’s Day

“Lá na nAthar faoi shona dhaoibh.”

“You’ve got to do your own growing,

no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

- Irish Proverb

“The work praises the man.”

- Irish Proverb

“May there be a generation of children

On the children of your children.”

- Irish Blessing

“May God be with you and bless you,

May you see your children’s children,

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.

May you know nothing but happiness

From this day forward.”

- Irish Blessing

“Mothers and fathers hold their children’s hands

for just a little while…

And their hearts forever.”

- Irish Saying

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most

is soap-on-a-rope.”

- Bill Cosby

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as

the need for a father’s protection.

- Sigmund Freud

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both

hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw

him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a

man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to

speak the language, who taught me all I needed to

know about faith and hard work by the simple

eloquence of his example.”

- Mario Cuomo

“It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing,

but there is a special place in heaven

for the father who takes his daughter shopping.”

- John Sinor

“One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.”

- English Proverb

“When I was a boy of fourteen,

my father was so ignorant

I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished

at how much he had learned in seven years.”

- Mark Twain

“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon,

‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’

He answered,

‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’”

- Jerry Lewis

“May embers from the hearth warm your hands,

May sunshine from an Irish sky warm your face,

May a child’s bright smile warm your heart,

And may everlasting love warm your soul.”

- Irish Blessing

Happy Father’s Day!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

I arise today

Through the strength of heaven:

Light of sun,

Radiance of moon,

Splendor of fire,

Speed of lightning,

Swiftness of wind,

Depth of sea,

Stability of earth,

Firmness of rock.

- From St. Patrick’s Breastplate

8th century prayer

An Irish Blessing

May love and laughter light your days,

and warm your heart and home.