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  St Mary RC Church, Beauly

An Old Gaelic Prayer

Alice, Lady Lovat wrote a biography of Bishop Aeneas Chisholm in 1927, and she relates that: 'Bishop Grant, when parish priest at Eskadale, took the following prayer, which he translated from Gaelic, from the mouth of John MacDonald, of Eskadale, who was then ninety-nine years of age, and who had learnt it eighty years before from Donald MacGruar, of Strathglass, who was then seventy years old.'  Bishop Grant, at the age of 26, was ordained in 1733 and died in Aberdeen in the year 1778.  So presumably this prayer is from the 17th century or before.

Di do bheatha

Di do bheatha a Chuirp Chrìosta
Di do bheatha a Rìgh nam feart
Di do bheatha a  Dhiadhachd chaomh
Di do bheatha a  Dhaondachd cheart
Mar a thoilich thu, Chrìosta, teachd
Fo sgéith arain, do Chorp slàn
Leighis m’anam bho gach olc
Ormsa an dràsda a ta
Di do bheatha, Fhuil ’us Fheoil
Di do bheatha, a phòr nan Gràs
Bàth m’uilc am fuil do Ghràs
Fàilt ort, a dhuine ’sa Dhia.
Mothaich mi bho’n ti th’air chuairt
Blaseam ort aig uair mo bhàis
A Thrianaid gun deireadh gun tùs
Na biodh t’fhearg rium nas motha
Fàilt ort, fhìor Chuirp, a rugadh le Moire Òigh
A bhrìgh do tholladh, a sileadh tonna fala
A Thrianaid Naomh, thoir D’Shacramaid dhuinn
An diugh ’s aig uair ar bàis: Agus Amen.

Hail to Thee

Hail to Thee, O Body of Christ;
Hail to Thee, O  King of Hosts; 
Hail to Thee, O  Gracious Godhead;
Hail to Thee, O  true Manhood.
As Thou wert pleased, O Christ, to come
Under the cover of bread Thy whole Body,
Heal my soul from every evil that is upon me now.
Hail to Thee, Blood and Flesh;
Hail to Thee, food of grace;
Wash my sins in the Blood of Thy Grace.
Hail to Thee, food of grace;
Wash my sins in the Blood of Thy Grace.
Hail to Thee, both God and man;
Guard me from him that goeth about.
May I receive Thee at the hour of death,
O Trinity without end and without beginning,
Neither let thy anger be upon me.
Hail to Thee, true body born of Mary Virgin;
By Thy being pierced, shedding waves of blood,
Holy Trinity, grant us Thy Sacraments
To-day and at our death hour, and Amen.

Note

The source of this prayer is from Alice, Lady Lovat's biography of Bishop Chisholm of Aberdeen, 'A Highland Bishop', publ. 1927.
and respectfully revised by Ciarán Ó Duibhín in September 2019.
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