People gave their lives for you to have the right to go to Mass in Ireland Dont let the meda stop you going to Mass like the guns in the past did Stand in your ground Penal Laws were imposed by the ruling British on Irish Roman Catholics during the 1600′s and 1700′s, in a bid to force people to accept the reformed Christian faith. The laws were very restrictive and have had a long and lasting effect on the daily life of Irish Catholics. The laws included: -Restrictions on how children of Catholics were educated -Banning Catholics from holding public office or serving in the army -Expelling Catholic clergy from the country, or executing them -Taking land and distributing it among British Lords -Dividing inherited land equally between children, to reduce land size held by individual Catholics -Excluding Catholics from voting -Ban on Catholics inheriting Protestant land Another restriction during Penal Times was a ban on the celebration of Catholic Mass. Catholic priests and worshippers had to find hidden areas in the Irish countryside to celebrate Mass. Many of these places were marked with “Mass Rocks”. The Mass Rock (Carraig an Aifrinn in Irish) was oftentimes a rock taken from a church ruin, and used as a place of worship for Roman Catholics.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:10:18 +0000
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