Keeping St. Patrick's Day Catholic (Christian)

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How do you observe St. Patrick’s Day?

I wore green today and am not Irish; however I am Catholic and admire St. Patrick. I also wore my rosary today to remember that St. Patrick’s Day is a Christian holiday. I think it is sad that a day commemorating St. Patrick, a man who converted and prayed for those who enslaved him, to be used as an excuse to get drunk. He is also the patron saint of Nigeria.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY

“Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.”
-Saint Partick

 

[BVM_1221]

How do you observe St. Patrick’s Day?

I wore green today and am not Irish; however I am Catholic and admire St. Patrick. I also wore my rosary today to remember that St. Patrick’s Day is a Christian holiday. I think it is sad that a day commemorating St. Patrick, a man who converted and prayed for those who enslaved him, to be used as an excuse to get drunk. He is also the patron saint of Nigeria.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY

“Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.”
-Saint Partick

I am not Irish, and today I wore a bright ORANGE T-shirt.

This goes back to when I was age 13, and my Scottish Grandmother, a staunch Presbertyrian, had me promise her to never wear green on 17 March, only orange. She didn’t tell me not to become a Catholic, I guess it never occured to her.

So I wear a bright orange T-shirt, without guilt. Most americans have no idea what the wearing o’ the green is really about, and far fewer would understand the wearing of orange.:nope:

As a recovered alcoholic, 26 years sober, I do not drink beer, green or otherwise. In fact, 17 March 1984 is when I left the alcoholism treatment center:extrahappy:

Nor do I eat corned beef and cabbage, buy ersatz shamrocks, or any other kitschy irish souvineers.

I am one of those who recites The Divine Office daily. For today, 17 March is a Commemoration for St. Patrick. The Proper Of Saints gives him a seperate reading for the Office Of Readings, followed by a Proper Responsory. Also Proper Antiphones for Morning and Evening Prayer, and a Proper prayer to wind it all up.

The secular celebrations of 17 March I ignore completely.:coffeeread:

 

[mark_a]

So I wear a bright orange T-shirt, without guilt. Most americans have no idea what the wearing o’ the green is really about, and far fewer would understand the wearing of orange.:nope:

Can you give us a refresher?

 

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I just heard today that orange on St. Patrick’s day was a protestant protestant to the holiday in a way. It is declaring you are protestant, but you are Catholic BVM1221.

 

[BVM_1221]

I just heard today that orange on St. Patrick’s day was a protestant protestant to the holiday in a way. It is declaring you are protestant, but you are Catholic BVM1221.

You read my posting, but you did not comprehend. My wearing o’ the orange is not a declaration that I am a Protestant. (Not that there is anything wrong with that)

No, all my wearing o’ the orange means is that I am fulfulling my promise to my maternal grandmother. And since I am a catholic it is also a joke. On americans. If you want to inflate this out of all proportion, be my guest:coffeeread:

But I once again emphasize that most americans have no idea what the wearing o’ the green is really about, much less the wearing o’ the orange. And what I saw today in Torrance was less then 5% of the population bothering to wear anything green.

St. Patrick’s Day nowadays has little meaning as a religious occasion. :sad_yes:

 

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I understand you are wearing orange for your grandmother. Maybe there is only serious controversy to where orang in Britain and Ireland.

You are right, people in America think of St. Patrick’s Day is a drinking day.

 

[Highwayhound]

As a religious education teacher at a church named St. Patrick’s I use the month of march to educate my students about the patron saint of their church. The kids have learned that St. Patrick was kidnapped as a youth. He was approximately 15 to 16 yrs old when it happened. He spent around 6 years as a slave shepherd in Ireland. He would pray up to 100 times in the morning and about the same in the evening.

Next week is Spring break so no class, but the following week we will read as a class parts of The Confession of St. Patrick. I think my dear young friends will find it interesting. Here is a link if anyone is interested in doing some reading:

cin.org/patrick.html

The whole point is to spend some time educating oneself about the faith. At work I had a fellow mention to me that St. Patrick was not even Catholic. This was news to me so I said to him that St. Patrick was a bishop. I knew this because I had taken time to educate myself about the saint.

St. Patrick did much which is to be admired.

God bless

 

[aspirant]

Maybe there is only serious controversy to where orang in Britain and Ireland.

I have a friend who grew up in Boston, and if anyone even accidentally wore orange on St. Paddy’s Day they got the tar beat out of them by the Catholic kids.

 

[dashso40]

Hello lead me home,
I too, feel that people use a great saints day as an excuse to get drunk. I’m not Irish but I love St Patrick b/c he brought Christianity to a whole country. I just don’t get the drinking thing. Than again, I don’t get drinking ever, I never drink,(I use to drink)… and I think drinking alcohol is terrible(just my opinion).