St. Patrick's day is lost

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Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this, i’m in a hurry. But i was just walking around school today, and i’m pretty sure about 2% (if any) of the school knows anything about st. patrick. To them Saint Patrick was a drunk irishman. And they all talk about how they are going to celebrate him by getting wasted tomorrow. How did a Saint feast day turn into this?
 
On my way to work this morning I was listening to the radio and turned to the local Christian station. They said basically the same thing you did, that the real St. Patrick spent his life in prayer and preaching, not in partying. They followed this by saying something like – here’s a little history about the Irishman known as St. Patrick who, as it turns out, was neither Irish nor a saint."

I nearly rear-ended the car in front of me. I knew St. Patrick was born in England, but to announce on a nationally broadcast radio program that he was not a saint? I could only assume this was meant as a slam against the Catholic Church.

I turned off my radio and prayed the Rosary the rest of the way to school. This foolish division in the Body of Christ just breaks my heart.

I, for one, will not be drinking any green beer tomorrow, but I will be more cautious on the roads. Turns out St. Patrick’s Day wins the prize for the most DUI accidents on any day in the entire year.

St. Patrick, pray for us.
 
Only if you managed somehow to lose March 17.
I, too, will not be drinking green beer. The very thought of green beer is disgusting. Why would anyone ruin perfectly good beer by adding blue dye?
I will, however, enjoy a drink in honor of the Saint. In the spirit of ecumenism I will be drinking Bushmill’s Single Malt. A wee jar is more than enough.

Matthew
 
Gertabelle said:
On my way to work this morning I was listening to the radio and turned to the local Christian station. They said basically the same thing you did, that the real St. Patrick spent his life in prayer and preaching, not in partying. They followed this by saying something like – here’s a little history about the Irishman known as St. Patrick who, as it turns out, was neither Irish nor a saint."

I nearly rear-ended the car in front of me. I knew St. Patrick was born in England, but to announce on a nationally broadcast radio program that he was not a saint? I could only assume this was meant as a slam against the Catholic Church.

I turned off my radio and prayed the Rosary the rest of the way to school. This foolish division in the Body of Christ just breaks my heart.

I, for one, will not be drinking any green beer tomorrow, but I will be more cautious on the roads. Turns out St. Patrick’s Day wins the prize for the most DUI accidents on any day in the entire year.

St. Patrick, pray for us.
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Well i guess the saint thing depends on your personal feelings. I have read (on real catholic media) that St. Patrick was never officially canonized as a saint by the Pope. It was done by parish priests or something.
 
St. Patrick’s day is really Irish pride day, nothing to do with the Saint, who was born in Great Britain.

Parties, corn beef and cabbage dinners, and parades, with leprechauns, have little to do with the Saint and what he stood for.

I don’t mind people celebrating their ethnic heritage or anything, but let’s call it what it really is.

St Anthony’s feast day has turned into the same sort of thing, Italian pride day. My guess is that few Italians know that St. Anthony was not Italian.

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
St. Patrick’s day is really Irish pride day, nothing to do with the Saint, who was born in Great Britain.

Parties, corn beef and cabbage dinners, and parades, with leprechauns, have little to do with the Saint and what he stood for.

I don’t mind people celebrating their ethnic heritage or anything, but let’s call it what it really is.

St Anthony’s feast day has turned into the same sort of thing, Italian pride day. My guess is that few Italians know that St. Anthony was not Italian.

Jim
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Portuguese right?
 
My name is Anthony:)
by the way, does anyone have a good website or anything with some prayers to St. Patrick on it? I can’t find anything beside his chaplet and breastplate.
 
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He’s credited with converting all of Ireland to Christianity in only 33 years.

He was born in the late 4th century, died mid 5th century, and was canonized before the intstitution of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

How did his feast day turn into a drunkenfest? Probably the same way Christmas turned into a materialistic greed-fest.

We’re having a party with leg of lamb, champ, colcannon, and buttered cabbage. There will be beer, although my husband drinks stout, so no sense in trying to dye that green, and I wouldn’t do it anyway. And I have a bottle of Irish moonshine that we’re all going taste. Don’t know if anyone will go futher than a taste though… I’m wearing green today, along with my claddah jewelry. Today we’re celebrating our Irish heritage, and giving thanks for Saint Patrick who brought the love of Jesus Christ to the Irish people.
 
I have a celtic cross rosary with green shamrock beads and a medal of st. patrick in the center. Do you think it would be ok to wear this under my shirt today?
 
It should be remembered that the St. Patrick’s Day partying is Irish American. Frow what I understand St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland is a religious feast day and that the parades are very recent history. The idea having been brought over from the US.

I don’t do the partying thing but I will wear green and I usually go to Mass since St. Patrick is my patron saint.
 
I have never seen green beer in Ireland, I did hear they tried to introduce it in some towns, it was frowned upon, and haven’t heard of it since, apart from the USA.

And no the river don’t turn green.

We don’t eat corned beef and cabbage, it’s a Cobh=Cove County Cork thing, it spread across the sea to the USA, but it never did get to the rest of us.

Was always told Saint Patrick was Welsh, does it matter anyway ? the point is according to Patrick he was sent by God to convert us.

Ireland’s biggest parade is in Dublin, New-York is the biggest worldwide.
In my hometown today, we had one band (Scouts) parading to the Church with Shamrocks, the Priest Blessed them and then the band marched back to source, after Mass that is.

Yes it can be celebrated for the wrong reasons, and people do over indulge, I myself went home after Mass, might go out tonight, and I might not, must be getting old.

Sadly some give Saint Patrick’s day a bad name, but isn’t Christmas over-indulged as well, by people who hardly ever drink the whole year round ? not only by drink, but with food as-well.
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And I have a bottle of Irish moonshine that we’re all going taste. Don’t know if anyone will go futher than a taste though… I’m wearing green today, along with my claddah jewelry.
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😃 Couldn’t help laughing when I saw you were going to try Irish moonshine, if it’s the genuine stuff, beware, it is not for the faint-hearted. :hypno:

I personally detest it, disgusting.

And next day so I’m told 😊 if you feel thirsty and drink water, well that will go straight to your head as-well, catch 22.

We have here what is know as plum poteen, of-course it’s illegal, that never stopped them, it’s nice to taste, but it still kicks like a mule, the original rocket fuel.
 
BeeSweet said:
And I have a bottle of Irish moonshine that we’re all going taste. Don’t know if anyone will go futher than a taste though… I’m wearing green today, along with my claddah jewelry.
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😃 Couldn’t help laughing when I saw you were going to try Irish moonshine, if it’s the genuine stuff, beware, it is not for the faint-hearted. :hypno:

I personally detest it, disgusting.

And next day so I’m told :o if you feel thirsty and drink water, well that will go straight to your head as-well, catch 22.

We have here what is know as plum poteen, of-course it’s illegal, that never stopped them, it’s nice to taste, but it still kicks like a mule.
 
Not in our house, is it lost. It is alive and well.

We always celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

We are American, so yes, we have corned beef with cabbage. I know it has been Americanized, since my Grandfather never had it and he was born in Ireland. But we have it every year.

We also study Saint Patrick. We talk about the Shamrock, the Trinity and we joke about the snakes.

We wear green and NO orange. And we talk about why.

It can never be lost if we, as Catholics, celebrate it.
 
BrooklynBoy200 said:
I have a celtic cross rosary with green shamrock beads and a medal of st. patrick in the center. Do you think it would be ok to wear this under my shirt today?
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Ironic since the true reason why hibernian and anglo-catholics don’t where the rosary like our spanish brothers and sisters is because of the British persecution of the Irish. Look up the irish penal rosary

Catholig
 
BrooklynBoy200 said:
My name is Anthony:)
by the way, does anyone have a good website or anything with some prayers to St. Patrick on it? I can’t find anything beside his chaplet and breastplate.
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Prayer To Saint Patrick
Patron Saint of Ireland

Most glorious Saint Patrick,
Bishop and Confessor,
chosen by the Almighty to be the Apostle of Ireland,
we, the children of those to whom you preached the Faith of Christ, never to be renounced,
hail you as the wonderful instrument of God’s mercy
for the obtaining of our eternal salvation.

Most glorious Apostle and Patron of our island,
submit to the Almighty our every temporal and spiritual want,
that through your intercession,
we may be relieved, in all our necessities through life,
and when called from this world to the glory of God,
we may, to your honour,
be found worthy of the faith that is within us,
and of eternal salvation.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
 
BrooklynBoy200 said:
My name is Anthony:)
by the way, does anyone have a good website or anything with some prayers to St. Patrick on it? I can’t find anything beside his chaplet and breastplate.
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There’s a beautiful prayer that St. Patrick wrote called the Lorica (or “The Deer’s Cry”): ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/patrick.htm

The legend goes that at one point he and his friends were being chased by some pagans who didn’t like their preaching activity, and they basically got surrounded in the woods by these people out to hurt them. St. Patrick, to get out of there safely, recited this prayer, and he and his friends walked out of the woods, appearing to the pagans to be deer, so they weren’t harmed. That’s where the name of the prayer comes from. 🙂

I totally agree that St. Patrick’s Day has lost its original meaning - whether officially canonized or not, this man did some amazing work in preaching the Gospel - he converted almost all of Ireland within his lifetime! It’s sad that even some of my Catholic friends don’t know anything about him. 😦
 
Gertabelle said:
On my way to work this morning I was listening to the radio and turned to the local Christian station. They said basically the same thing you did, that the real St. Patrick spent his life in prayer and preaching, not in partying. They followed this by saying something like – here’s a little history about the Irishman known as St. Patrick who, as it turns out, was neither Irish nor a saint."

I nearly rear-ended the car in front of me. I knew St. Patrick was born in England, but to announce on a nationally broadcast radio program that he was not a saint? I could only assume this was meant as a slam against the Catholic Church.
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You’d better believe it was a slam against the Catholic Church! Saint Patrick is no less a saint than the apostles themselves.
 
go to americancatholic.com for several good links to articles about the glorious Saint Patrick, e-greetings, great pictures etc.

found Irish Soda bread with currants (not raisins) in our local market for MIL
 
m134e5 said:
You’d better believe it was a slam against the Catholic Church! Saint Patrick is no less a saint than the apostles themselves.
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If I am correct Saint Patrick is also considered an apostle right?
 
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