Now He Who prohibiteth every evil, Who proclaimeth every good, Who reconcileth God and man, Jesus Christ Son of the Living God, the Saviour of the whole world, He it is Who spake these words; to teach His apostles and His disciples and the whole Church concerning the covenant[1] of charity; that men should do of good and of charity to their neighbour as much as they would do unto themselves.  To that end saith Jesus, Omnia quaecumque uultis.  Now Matthew son of Alphaeus, the eminent sage of the Hebrews, one of the four who expounded the Gospel of the Lord, he it is who wrote these words in the heart of his Gospel, saying after his Master Jesus, Omnia quaecumque.

Si ergo uos, cum sitis mali, nostis bona data dare filiis uestris, quanto magis Pater uester celestis dabit bona petentibus Se:[2] That is, “If ye being men [sic] give good gifts to your children, much more shall the Heavenly Father give good to His children who ask Him.”  It is after these words that Jesus spake this counsel, Omnia quaecumque, etc.  For Law and Prophecy command us to give love to God and to the neighbour. Finis enim precepti caritas est, quia caritas propria et specialis uirtus est Christianorum.  Nam caeterae uirtutes bonis et malis possunt esse communes; caritatem autem habere nisi perfecti non possunt.  Vnde Iesus ait, “In hoc cognoscent omnes quod discipuli Mei estis, si dilexeritis inuicem." “For the roof and summit of divine doctrine is charity, because charity is the especial virtue of the Christians.  For the other virtues may belong to good and to evil men alike; but none hath charity save good men only.  Wherefore Jesus saith, ’Hereby shall all men recognise that ye are of My folk, if each of you loveth his fellow as I have loved you.’"[3] Et iterum dixit Iesus:  Hoc est preceptum meum ut diligatis inuicem sicut dilexi uos. “And thus said Jesus further:  ’This is my counsel to you, that each of you love his fellow as I have loved you.’”

Many of the children of life, apostles and disciples of the Lord, have thenceforward fulfilled with zeal and with piety the counsel that Jesus gave them as to fulfilling charity; as he fulfilled and loved charity especially beyond all virtues, to wit the noble glorious apostle, the father confessor, the spark-flashing, the man through whom the west of the world shone with signs and wonders, with virtues and with good deeds, Sanctus Ciaranus sacerdos et apostolus Dei, the archpresbyter and apostle Saint Ciaran, son of the wright.  Now he was son of the Wright Who formed heaven and earth with all that in them is, according to his heavenly genealogy; and son of the wright who used to frame carriages and all other handiworks beside, according to his earthly genealogy.

The date which the Faithful honour as the feast-day of this noble one is the fifth of the ides of September according to the day of the solar month, and this day to-day according to the day of the week.