Posted on 03/17/2024 5:33:57 PM PDT by ebb tide
In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day has traditionally been a religious occasion beginning with Mass. Shops and businesses (excepting restaurants and pubs) were all shut down on that day. During the 1990s however, the Irish government began to take advantage of the opportunity to bring in tourism. Cities and towns throughout Ireland now host parades, sporting events, parades, concerts, fireworks and theater productions on St. Patrick’s Day.
Even those without a drop of Irish blood can celebrate St. Patrick with gusto. After all, he was not Irish either. He was born in 387 in Britain, which was beginning to transition from Roman control at the time.
In the fifth century, living on the edge of the Roman empire was dangerous. It was collapsing, and barbarians roamed about. Patrick was kidnapped by Irish raiders at the age of 16 and enslaved in Ireland.
What is known about his life comes from his two short works: his Letter to Coroticus, a denunciation of British mistreatment of Irish Christians, and his Confession, which he wrote so that others would “understand that to which I have committed my soul.”
Patrick believed God had allowed his six years of slavery as a shepherd to shake him out of his “complacency and out of a way of life where God didn’t matter for me.” Daily depravation led him to deep reflection. He wrote:
There, the Lord opened up my understanding to my unbelief so that however late, I might become conscious of my failings and then remembering my need, I might turn with all my heart to the Lord my God. For it was he who looked after me before I knew him. Indeed, as a father consoles his son, so he protected me.
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That’s actually a recommendation.
Also, parades. Don't forget parades.
Sadly, IRELAND has returned to darkness. PRAY.
The True Story of St. Patrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdTDT7gwGB8&t=316s
I'm not a Catholic but I have accepted Christ as my Savior. St. Patrick's message just resonated with this old fool.
Probably not much liked by herpetologists either.
I’m not Irish or Catholic. Why would I celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?
St. Patrick was a Seventh day Sabbath keeper. Christians who honor and keep the Seventh day Sabbath, which is the Bible Lord’s day, Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath, God calls the 7th day Sabbath MY HOLY DAY....and those Christians who still keep it as a blessed day, a day “made for man” just as Jesus said it was......no twisting and turning of scripture......well, they usually aren’t liked much. But that’s expected I guess.
Everybody is Irish on St Patrick’s Day
Because St. Patrick converted many pagans to Christianity, and explained how the Holy Trinity was One God in three Persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He used the shamrock to illustrate it.
The explanation is worth celebrating.
T.Petty sounds like someone I should have known many years ago in Ala. Montgomery?
It wouldn’t surprise me!
Thank-you!
Note that the homosexualist, Fr. James Martin, S.J., was invited to "catholic" Joe Biden's Whitehouse for St. Patrick's Day
“But Not by His Bishops” Another point in his favor.
Bergoglio’s U.S. hachetman (e.g Bishop Joseph Strickland’s dismissal), Christophe Pierre, was also invited to Biden’s whitehouse.
Your evidence that St Patrick was a “seventh-day Sabbath keeper” is exactly what...?
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