1. Holiness is important all year around. However, there are priorities. Holy Week takes precedence over everything. Easter is the most important day on the Church calendar, wouldn’t you agree?
2. I don’t “party hardy” during Lent. However, there are Irish among us who enjoy reveling in their Irish-ness. If you ask me, the day has taken on too much of a secular meaning, much like Christmas.
3. I believe that God has set up the calendar to create this debate to shed a little light on point #2. Those who care about what St. Patrick proclaimed during his life will observe the religious holiday on the day the Church has moved the feast day to, and will prepare themselves for Christ’s death and resurrection during Holy Week. Those who missed the message completely will get wasted on the 17th.
1. There is no church or holiday calendar in the Scriptures at all. The New Testament actually derides “holy” days (Colossians chapter 2). Easter? No, I am abroad most of the time and don’t even notice “Easter” go by. I am a Christian who talks to many people every week about the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Don’t need a special day. I observe the Resurrection every time I preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
2. Putting God and drunkenness in the same context is repugnant.
3. God never set up a calendar.