Like you, I get tired of this place sometimes. We’ve all got plenty of other things going on in our lives, plenty of calls on our time and energy, the last thing we need is to deal with the consequences of a narrow win when a comprehensive victory was expected, but, of course, the compensations are immeasurable.
You get home on Christmas Eve, after a long day, and a longer year, and you read something like this:
The donor had been in touch and asked what the next project was. I’ve big plans for 2017. What I’m thinking is that we use the Anniversary Year to push the core values of our community – and our club – to new levels. Like before, we’re going to do work for many causes, but I’ve a notion that the time is right to engage with Celtic fans to a greater extent than has been possible before.
A decade or so into online football communities has given us enough material to measure the impact they have had on clubs, the media and how fans relate, but what is clear, is that we are the first generation for whom it has been possible to engage an entire fan base on helping those who are most in need.
In earlier times this kind of activity was often limited to those collected together in a hall. The call wasn’t able to reach onto your lap (as it is right now). We have to acknowledge this is a new time, with new opportunities to reinvigorate our club with its founding values.
Society changes, the Celtic support has changed. We can’t infuse future generations with a love of the old country’. Frankly, it you follow the demographics, future generations of Celtic supporters will increasingly come from the native population, or England, Eastern Europe, Pakistan or elsewhere. The ‘old country’ will matter less.
What we can do is put our founding value at the core of who we are. Win, lose or draw, our mission as Celtic supporters is to be there for those most in need.
The is what we are going to do in 2017. That £1000 (+ gift aid) is the second substantial donation Mary’s Meals already have towards putting food on the table of Sean Devereux Primary School, Liberia, for a year. We’ll talk more about the work of Sean soon, and about the school in his memory.
This, of course, is just one act in the book of what you did in 2016. I honestly don’t know how many meals were paid for, it must be around 100,000, kids were aided, and the magnificent work of Foundation was supported we discussed on Thursday was helped throughout.
We’ll have a raffle coming up on Boxing Day, which will see someone collect two tickets for Ibrox on Hogmany, with money going to the School, so look out for it – it will only be live for a couple of days.
You deserve a great Christmas – so make sure you have one!
Paul
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Merry Christmas to everyone on CQN, their friends, and family.
A well deserved Christmas present for them too CowieBhoy.
I’m sure BDO will be looking at that money for RFC1872 and their creditors of course.
Merry Christmas Bhoys and Ghirls!
Been a very long time lurker on here but reading all the messages today is truly inspiring and captures everything that Celtic are to me and hopefully a wee bit of what I am to them.
Have a wonderful day and cherish those nearest and dearest to you whether it be in memory or person,
Auldheid, as always you shine a light in dark places! May I take this opportunity to thank you and the other Res 12 bhoys for your incredible efforts and I hope and pray that 2017 brings you the reward you deserve.
God Bless
Sid
HH
Cannonball Edinburgh Gin. 57.2% Alc by volume. It’s my Xmas present from the wife: she really should know better.
Home Alone 2 watched, time for Elf…
Merry Christmas to all on CQN and Celtic fans everywhere .
Hope you all have a wonderful day .
Sid1888
Welcome to the best Celtic blog going
Merry Christmas fellow Celtic fan
JNP
Hope you and the family are having a lovely Christmas
Christmas greetings to all on CQN. Special thanks to Paul 67 for creating and maintaining this blog.
HH
SID1888
Ur ye? Canny see it myself so welcome aboard!
Nollaig faoi shéan agus faoi mhaise daoibh go léir.
Merry Christmas to one and all. It is great to be a Tim.
Merry Christmas to all, hope you have a great time with your family and loved ones
HH
Merry Christmas to all CQNrs and the Celtic family around the world. Here’s hoping that 2017 brings some much needed more positive news.
HH
Gerry
Cork celt. .good to see you back on
Hopefully have the pleasure of buying you a drink in 2017 in Glasgow or Lisbon. …..not Dublin though because we don’t encourage you cork fellas coming here and taking our jobs etc.
Christmas is always full of surprises and sometimes disappointments….Earlier, as I looked out over the Gorbals this morning, I marvelled at the Christmas Card scene all covered in snow only to remember that I had dropped my glasses in my porridge earlier.
That was bad enough, but then I opened my Guardian email to find out…..my God ….Pope Donald!
I suggest they get a new on-line editor :)
http://alturl.com/fd6ip
Hail Hail
Matt
Didn’t realise we were doing Word of the Day on a weekend
have to give you 3 Uxbridge words now:-
Verisimilitude: Extremely evenly masticated.
Whisky: A bit like a whisk.
Xenophobia: Fear of Buddhism.
Merry Xmas y’all
SID1888
Welcome to CQN !☘
WITS
What,not even in The Flowing Tide?
That place welcomes emdy. Great pint anaw.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 25TH DECEMBER 2016 2:40 PM
Don’t usually do it but just wanted to post the real meaning of Christmas.
KTF
Bmcuwp
All welcome. .except the corkies
Sorry to interup the queen but what better time than to say merry Christmas to my fellow Celtic fans,
With Brendan we are on the verge of great things.
Exciting times ahead
shhhhh
the queen is on
Oh good, The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special is on…
On what?
heroin
Merry Christmas to all contributors, lurkers, happy clappers, mineshafters, and all shades from pos to neg. Greetings to BMCUP, HebCelt, Eurochamps and Clunks. Salutations to Auldheid and the Gang of Four – you have been magnificent. Goodnight to Rick Parfitt, whose driving rhythm caused me to lose a fair amount of dandruff at many a concert.
All I really want for Christmas is an emphatic shut out win by several goals over the current entity masquerading in Govan on Saturday.
Hail, hail,
IniquitousIV
HaHaHa
SID1888
welcome aboard
Notthebus
Show some respect for a fellow tim……
http://prestonm.com/queen_celtic_trophy_bubble/
Sniffs other oxter….. :)
Betty broke the blog…
SID1888-welcome aboard
Merry Christmas everyone from a now cloud covered Corralejo.
Christmas day watching the highlights of The Champions latest victory. Superb.
Hope everyone gets what they wish for.
Puy lentils and baby squid followed by seared tuna and ginger vegetables for Felix Navidad dinner.
Eurochamps67
Happy Hoopy Christmas to all. Hail, Hail !
Delaney’s, i’ve just read back and saw your mum isnt well.
I hope she is soon feeling better and gets home .
Hopefully , you and your famly visiting her at the new Southern lifts her spirits.
https://twitter.com/readceltic/status/813021744550346752
Brendan visiting a hospice in Belfast today…
Well here we are, another Christmas, it’s always been my favourite time from being a wee loddy doon the Bonnie Banks tae an oul grampa oot here in the Great White North. There’s a certain excitement and mystique about it.
So to all those who are blessed in coming fae the land of Bruce, Rob Roy and Braveheart himself:
Nollaig chridheil agus bliadhna mhath ùr
And for those from the land beyond the sea:
Nollaig shona daoibh
And let’s NOT forget that wee Scottish poem that’s quite germane on this day:
“Roses are reddish and violets are bluish, if it wisnae for Christmas we’d all be jewish )))))
Bada bing
A lovely gesture by BR. .but did you see the hun comments down below. .sick
WITS- Just looked, dogs….