Na lig sin i gcathu (with apologies to Criostoir O Floinn)

 What did the seminarian teachers at Saint Michael's  College hope young people would see in Irish language dramas written by defrocked priests?

In the Biblical paradigm of the above title (1978) a former priest tried his hand at some contemporary Bibliology.

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Let us start further down from "Ar n-athair ata ar neamh", with "Ar n-aran laethuil tar duinn inniu" (The Our Father).

In the third line which follows,we read (English) "Na lig sinn I gcathu" after the  request for material assistance which stands at the apex of temporal needs.

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As an educated former man of the cloth and possibly knowing of the CIA "double cut-out" system of agent handling,that being Head of Intelligence-Case Officer-Agent Handler-Agent,he might have seen a discernible link between the invocation of providential  assistance with the strings-attached US investment in the Ireland of the 1960's and 1970's.

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His spacing is by way of the normal running Order of Business in American intelligence affairs.

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Taken in total,therefore,will Irish Catholic divinity as in "Na lig sinn i gcathu" bury American materialism,the need talked of in "Ar n-aran laethuil tabhair duinn innit."

Whether the Church proves to be the US's saviour or executioner is uncertain. 

Read John Paul's Crossing the Bridge of Hope. The Catholic Church is opposed not just to authoritarianism and Marxism,but to CAPITALISM.

Like the wise master it says "Let the Thorns grow up with the Wheat until the Time comes for Harvest,then let the Darnel be separated from the Wheat and the Wheat saved and the Darnel thrown on the Fire..."

I venture to say that the Church is the gravedigger of capitalism in direct proportion to its public stature in big and unimportant countries such as Ireland.

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