October 29 CWI Sheboygan Branch

Samhain has come and gone:)   Not really, Samhain is actually October 31, Halloween.    Halloween (Samhain) is also the Christian All Souls Day followed the next morning by All Saints Day.   All Saints Day is the day set aside by the Catholic Church for all the saints in heaven that are not canonized and do not have a feast day.   These would be our parents, our grand parents and friends and relatives that we KNOW are in heaven but have not been officially named a saint.

So we gathered for a harvest potluck.   We thought of and set places for our ancestors.  We shared stories of them.   We ate a spectacular meal.   It consisted of Sausage Corn Chowder, Potato Soup, Sweet Potato and Apple Soup, Colcannon, Bubbles and Squeak, Vegetable Medley, Chicken Rice Stew, Cranberry Apple Sauce, Irish Sausage Rolls and Pumpkin Custard Torte with Pecans.    Those who could not come missed a great meal and super companionship. 

After we ate, I shared my knowledge of the Celtic Perpetual Calendar the our CWI members, Cindy Matyi and Dolores Whelan, created.   It is as I said a perpetual calendar and in our society is not useful for scheduling appointments.   This makes it hard to understand.  It is intended as a tool to help direct your spiritual life and take advantage of the four seasons with the four solstices in between them to  set your soul in peace.  There were 16  attendees.   How special is that!

November 15, mark your calendars.   We have had an enthusiastic group of readers (We even have one member who does not read much but loves to come to hear about the books we have read.)  Joan Kramer is unable to be here that weekend so she and I decided that you can all come to my home that Saturday at 1PM.   The book selected at the last discussion is 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn.    Please - come if you can, even if you have not read the book.   After the discussion you may want to read it and by coming you can help choose the next book -or books.   Perhaps we could do a series?   or perhaps have a couple of books.    Anyway,  come to my home that Saturday.  Bring a treat if you like.    I will have Brown Bread baked fresh that morning. (Hear that, Joan S.) 

December  6, 2014 - AGAIN mark your Calendars for our annual Celtic Women, Sheboygan County Historical Research Center Irish Christmas Tea.   The place and who will be our music will be forwarded in the next couple of weeks.   Thank LuAnn Cleary Benninghaus and Beth Dippel for their planning of this event.

Dia Dhuit

Mary Kunert
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Michael Kelly " In a land where there are no musicians; in a land where there are no storytellers; teachers and poets; in a land where there are no men and women of vision and leadership; in a land where there are no legends, saints, and champions; in a land where there are no dreamers, the people will most certainly perish."