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A Song For A Sunday.

Heal The World.

Lyrics and Vocals: American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist, the late Michael Joseph Jackson, (August 29th, 1958 – June 25th, 2009).

Heal The World.

There’s a place in your heart and I know that it is love,
And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow,
And if you really try, you’ll find there’s no need to cry,
In this place you’ll feel, there’s no hurt or sorrow.
There are ways to get there, if you care enough for the living,
Make a little space, make a better place.

Chorus

Heal the world, make it a better place,
For you and for me and the entire human race.
There are people dying, if you care enough for the living,
Make a better place, for you and for me.

If you want to know why there’s a love that cannot lie,
Love is strong, it only cares of joyful giving,
If we try, we shall see in this bliss we cannot feel,
Fear or dread, we stop existing and start living,
Then it feels that always a love’s enough for us growing,
So make a better world, make a better world.

Repeat Chorus
And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face,
And the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.
Then why do we keep strangling life, wound this Earth, crucify its soul,
Though it’s plain to see this world is heavenly, be God’s glow.
We could fly so high, let our spirits never die.
In my heart I feel you are all my brothers,
Create a world with no fear, together we’ll cry happy tears,
See the nations turn their swords into ploughshares.
We could really get there, if you cared enough for the living,
Make a little space, to make a better place.

Repeat Chorus (3 times)

There are people dying, if you care enough for the living,
Make a better place, for you and for me.
There are people dying, if you care enough for the living,
Make a better place, for you and for me.
You and for me. (Make a better place).
You and for me. (Make a better place).
You and for me. (Make a better place).
You and for me. (Heal the world we live in).
You and for me. (Save it for our children).
You and for me. (Heal the world we live in).
You and for me. (Save it for our children).
You and for me. (Heal the world we live in).
You and for me. (Save it for our children).
You and for me. (Heal the world we live in).
You and for me. (Save it for our children).
Save it for our children.
END

Shooting Dead Of Tipperary Native Shaun Brady – Second Teen Charged.

Mr Shaun Brady, R.I.P.

Jackson County juvenile authorities in the U.S. state of Missouri, have now charged a second teenager, following the murder earlier this week of former Nenagh, Co. Tipperary native and well-known Kansas City chef, Mr Shaun Brady.

He is charged, in Jackson County family court, with second degree murder in the fatal shooting of Mr Brady and the attempted theft of a motorised vehicle.

A second teen, a 15-year-old boy, was charged on Thursday, with felony murder; attempted stealing of a motor vehicle, and armed criminal action. His name, as is the case in all juvenile proceedings, has not been placed in the public domain. Both suspects currently remain in police detention at a Juvenile Detention Centre.

As our readers are aware, Mr Brady, who was a married 44-year-old father of two, was murdered on Wednesday, just after 5:10pm, outside his Brookside restaurant, “Brady & Fox”, situated at 63rd Street and Rockhill Road.

The two male juveniles were arrested by police within an hour, following the shooting, in the Midtown area, while the stolen vehicle was also located nearby.

The first teen, a 15-year-old boy, charged on Thursday last, was in family court on Friday, accompanied by family members, and had a detention hearing. It is expected that on September 25th next, he will face a judge who will determine if he is to be tried in an adult court.

Information on the court appearance for the second teen has yet to be confirmed.

Ghost Chickens Skyward.

Ghost Chickens in the Sky.

Vocals: Tennessee banjo player Mr Troy Boswell, known professionally as Leroy Troy.

Lyrics: American stand-up comedian and singer Sean Morey and American songwriter and actor Stan Jones

Ghost Chickens in the Sky.

A chicken Farmer, took a walk, out on his farm one day,
He paused by the coop, as he went along his way,
When all at once a rotten egg hit him in the eye,
It was the sight he dreaded, ghost chickens in the sky.

[Chorus]

(Chicken clucking/crowing sounds)
Ghost chickens in the sky.

He’d been a chicken farmer since he was twenty four,
Working for the Colonel, for thirty years or more,
Killing all theses chickens and sending them to fry,
And now they want revenge, ghost chickens in the sky.

[Repeat Chorus]

Their beaks were black and shiney, their eyes were blazing red,
They didn’t have no feathers these chickens all were dead,
They picked the farmer up and he died by the claw,
They cooked him extra crispy, (pause) and they ate him with coleslaw.

[Repeat Chorus]
Ghost chickens in the sky.

End.

Death Of David Morris, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

It was with a great personal sadness that I learned of the death, on Sunday 25th August 2024, of Mr David T. Morris, (Former Teacher Ursuline Convent, Thurles) of ‘Attavallie’, Cashel, Co. Tipperary and formerly of South Circular Road, Dublin.

Mr Morris, sadly, passed away unexpectedly at his place of residence.

Beloved son of the late Thomas and Nora and pre-deceased by brothers Brian, Paul, Declan, Thomas and sister Brenda; the passing of Mr Morris is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by his sorrowing family; wife Rose, daughter Paula, son Rónán, grandchildren Caoimhinn and Rupert, son-in-law Philip and Rónán’s partner Dom, brother-in-law Mark, sisters-in-law Sidsel and Lola, nephews, niece, extended relatives, neighbours, staff and former pupils at the Ursuline Convent secondary school Thurles, Co. Tipperary and at Rockwell College, Cashel, Co. Tipperary together with his many friends.

Requiescat in Pace.

Funeral Arrangements.

The earthly remains of Mr Morris reposed at Devitt’s Funeral Home, yesterday afternoon, Friday August 30th, from 5:30pm until 7:30pm.
Requiem Mass for Mr Morris was celebrated this morning, Saturday August 31st, in the Church of Our Lady Queen, New Inn, Co. Tipperary, at 11:30am and same was followed by interment, immediately afterwards, in the adjoining graveyard.

The extended Morris family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time, and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.

St Bernadette Relics To Visit Holycross Abbey, Thurles, In September 2024.

St Bernadette of Lourdes.

The Relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes; latter who experienced visions of the Virgin Mary, will visit Holycross Abbey, Thurles, in a couple of weeks, for two days, on September 19th and 20th 2024.

Initially born Bernadette Soubirous (January 7th 1844 – April 16th 1879), St Bernadette, then aged 14 years, claimed to have seen the Mother of God, on 18 different occasions.

St Bernadette (Sisters of Charity), as she later became known (daughter of François Soubirous (1807–1871), a miller, and his wife Louise (née Casteròt; 1825–1866), a laundress), was out gathering firewood with her sister Toinette and a friend near the grotto of Massabielle, when she experienced her first vision.
While the other girls had crossed a little stream in front of the grotto and walked on, St Bernadette stayed behind, looking for a shallower place to cross, where she wouldn’t get her shoes and stockings wet.
Having finally sat down to remove her shoes and stocking, she heard the sound of a rushing wind. A wild rose growing in a natural niche in the grotto, was the only foliage to move. From the dark alcove behind it, came a dazzling light, and a figure arrayed in white.
This was to be the first of 18 visions of what St Bernadette later recalled as “a small young lady”.
Her sister and her friend stated that they had seen nothing.

Having suffered a bout of cholera in her childhood, St Bernadette had been left with severe, chronic asthma, and eventually she contracted tuberculosis (TB) of the lungs and bones. She died in 1879 at Nièvre, in France and was declared blessed on June 14th 1921, by Pope Pius XI. She was canonized by Pius XI on December 8th 1933, latter the feast day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Her body was first exhumed on September 22nd 1909, in the presence of representatives appointed by the Church, (two doctors and a sister of her religious community). They claimed that although the crucifix in her hand and her rosary beads had both oxidized, her body appeared fully preserved from decomposition (incorrupt). This was cited as one of the miracles to support her canonization. Her body was washed and re-clothed, before re-burial in the Chapel of St Joseph, in a new double casket.

The church again exhumed her body a second time, on April 3rd 1919, on the occasion of the approval of St Bernadette’s canonization. Then, what struck those present during this examination, was the state of perfect preservation of the body’s supple and firm fibrous tissues, and the totally unexpected state of the liver, after 40 years.

In 1925, the church again exhumed her body for the third time, taking relics, which were then sent to Rome.

The relics coming to Ireland are parts of her body that were removed after she was exhumed. These relics include bones, muscle tissue, and hair samples. Same will arrive at Ireland West Airport, (Knock Airport, Co. Mayo), on Wednesday September 4th next.

A full itinerary of where Saint Bernadette’s relics can be viewed, can be found HERE.