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MARCH 17, 2012
Irish parades and feasts in New York, Chicago and all over Ireland, if not the world. The Chicago River will be dyed green again this year.
The greatest Irishman of them all was not Irish by birth. He was really cosmopolitan, which explains his universal popularity.
His father, Calphurnius, was Roman Governor of Britain, which accounts for the fact that some English (Praise God!) have evoked his protection. His mother, Conchessa, was French, which gives that nation their right to him. At sixteen he was kidnapped by Vikings, so Norwegians and Swedes say he was one of their own. They, in turn, sold him as a slave to an Irish chieftain. Six years later he escaped to France, studied under Bishop Germain of Auxerre and was ordained to the priesthood. After a brief missionary career in England, he was consecrated bishop by Maximus of Turin, which gives Italians some kind of hold on him, and a German pope, Celestine, sent him officially to IRELAND.
***Copied from the Passionist
During his ministry in the fifth century, Patrick and his monks (most of them were not monks) would preach and baptize as they went about the Irish countryside. They also began to conduct a simple rite of forgiveness patterned on the type of counseling the monks themselves were accustomed to in their own spiritual lives, often including informal talks with the penitent about the conduct of their lives as Christians. The monks lived a strict spiritual discipline based upon the spirituality of St. Jerome and St. Augustine who believed that "no person can walk without a guide." The form of spiritual guidance soon appeared in penitential books with appropriate penances for specific sins. As Irish monks carried their missionary work into Europe, the practice of private confession slowly began to take hold.
***Copied from Little Black Book 3/17/2014 Lent
Luck of the Irish to you!
Published 3/17/12 ust1611 multiply
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