Blessed Saint Patrick's Day!

     The cold breeze of March ushers in this Holy feast day of Saint Patrick. His great depiction of explaining the Blessed Trinity by example of the leaves of a shamrock will be forever remembered by those that love him. 

    At just 16, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery to Ireland. I think of my 16-year-old boys, my grandson's, and how devastating that would be for them in this day and age. St Patrick, after escaping 6 years of this slavery (herding sheep), returned back home which was Roman Scotland, to a Christian family. He later returned back to the very place in Ireland where he had been enslaved on a religious mission. He focused on converting Irish Chieftains and citizens, building Churches and spreading Christianity throughout the 5th century. 

     He became a Bishop and is famously known for driving out snakes and wearing a Shamrock on his vestments as a symbol of God's Truth as the Blessed Trinity. 

     While back in Ireland, he brought gifts to a chieftain and a lawgiver but they accepted none of them. They cast him into chains and then turned him away. Saint Patrick was around 70 years old when he died and was buried near the region he was first enslaved as a youth. We wear green to symbolize this teaching of the Blessed Trinity, by the use of the shamrock that he depicted , was an excellent symbol for the people he converted.

     Many have lost the true meaning of this great Saints existence, but let us remember him as one of the greatest teachers and Saints to this day. Let us celebrate the Blessed Trinity and all that it represents. Just as St Patrick would say, "Jesus walk to the right of me, Jesus, walk to the left of me, Jesus, walk above me, Jesus, walk below me, Jesus, walk in back of me, Jesus, walk in front of me, Jesus, walk within me".

     Happy, and Blessed Saint Patrick's Day!