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.
1. Mass is observed every day. At mass, the words and actions of Jesus Christ, as recorded in the Scriptures, are remembered, as well as the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So it isn’t like, Catholics only remember these things once a year. Only the sinful lapsed Catholics who attend Mass only once or twice a year do that. However, Holy Week takes on more meaning as we draw nearer to the actual days on the calendar each year when Christ died, was buried, and rose again.
I salute the good work you do in introducing Christ and his teaching to those who may have been previously unaware.
2. I agree. As I have said before, the paganistic rituals that accompany these days are abhorrent. As I am not Irish, I do not completely understand the nature of these non-Christian practices on St. Patrick’s Day.
3. It is my firm belief that God the Holy Spirit, working through Pope Gregory, set up the current Gregorian Calendar, and in the moving this year of the rememberance of St. Patrick, it will be returned to what it should be, a rememberance of a man, who like yourself, was a missionary and brought Christianity to Ireland. Those who celebrate on the 17th will not be the Christians, but the pagans who St. Patrick attempted to convert. Thus light should be shed more brightly on these less-than-Christian practices.
Scripture does no such thing. 2 Colossians speaks of Jewish secular festival days and sabbaths as no longer being obligatory, not Holy Days, like the Lord's Day, and much to the chagrin of you linguistic literalists, you won't find the words Trinity, Incarnation or Bible in Scripture either. Paul in no way refutes the Third Commandment.
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths," Colossians 2:16
I observe the Resurrection every time I preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Good for you but you'd better take another look at chapter 11 of First Corinthians and not lose sight of the Crucifixion, for without it there is no Resurrection.
"For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come." 1 Corinthians 11:26