The Holy Saturday blessing of the food for breakfast on Easter Sunday in Athenry, Co. Galway this morning. A Polish tradition.

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Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you life.

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Less than a week here and already a settled part of our home.

O King whom all the peoples desire, you are the cornerstone which makes all one. O come and save man, whom you made from clay.

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The first gathering around our new table (chairs to follow!) over and all tidied away. Little events building on the sense of home in our new house.

O Rising Sun, you are the splendour of eternal light and the sun of justice. O come and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.
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O key of David and sceptre of Israel, what you open no one else can close again; what you close, no one can open. O come and lead the captive from prison; free those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.
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O stock of Jesse, you stand as a signal for the nations; kings fall silent before you whom the peoples acclaim. O come to deliver us, and do not delay. #OAntiphons #Advent

O Adonai and leader of Israel, you appeared to Moses in a burning bush and you gave him the Law on Sinai. O come and save us with your mighty power.
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Something is not as it should be.