saint's day

[dragonlady7]

hey, next week is my saint's day.
I have always meant to have a party on my saint's day.
It's also almost my half-birthday. (Since my birthday's in the summer I never ever got to have parties at school. Since I went to a boarding school for high school, i couldn't even have parties with school people in the summer. So I haven't really celebrated my birthday since elementary school. I always meant to have a party in February to make up for it but I never have.)

I should have a party next week.
And roast that damn turkey I got for cheap at Wegman's but don't know when I'll eat.


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Would it make things any better? No. But it would be a party. Come on over, everybody.

Comments

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great thing. I don't even know who my saint is ... does it have to do with when you're born or something? Or is it something they assign to you at christening? I was raised by randomly religious parents, but now I'm married to a Catholic, I really ought to know these things.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

It's actually a semi-pagan carry-over thing.
See, every day has a saint, just about.
In some cultures, your parents don't choose your name-- you're simply named for the saint on whose day you're born.

Catholics are a little funny about their saints nowadays. When I was confirmed they told me I should choose a second name, and that name should be the name of a saint with whom I identified. Well... we don't study the lives of saints anymore. So I couldn't think of one. So I used my given middle name, which is actually (come to think of it) the Gaelic version of Joan, who is a pretty cool saint. (Jeanne d'Arc!) But that wasn't my thought process at the time. I wasn't raised Catholic very well, is my point. So I don't really know what's up with saints.

St. Brigid is on the 2nd of February. Which is, also, coincidentally, an ancient pagan fertility holiday. In several cultures.
Saturnalia, anyone? I'm sacrificing an already-dead turkey...

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

Ooooh... Saturnalia! I'm currently reading Bullfinch's Mythology, so I can certainly see the grooviness of having a modern Saturnalia day.

Would Bush have to be a file customer service rep for a cable company (that's the shittiest job I've ever had), do you think? And I could be President! Bwahaha!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oooooo....

That'd be pretty sweet.

I'm right, right? Saturnalia's meant to be around here somewhere, isn't it?

That and Imbolc. Which, I think, is similar, just Celtic.

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

I really ought to know, but I don't. It's when the Romans celebrated the 5 'intercalery days' between the years. I don't know what time of year that fell, though.

But I think it appropriate to call this feast of yours a Saturnalia.