St. Patrick's Day Articles
A New Springtime for the Church in Ireland: Who is Saint Patrick and Why Does it Matter?
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
His story still inspires us for a reason. It needs to be heard once again and written in the lives of contemporary saints for the Third Christian millennium, a new missionary age. Let us pray for the Church of Jesus Christ which Patrick helped to plant in Ireland. Let us ask the Lord ...
St. Patrick: Saint for the New Evangelization and Missionary Model for Today
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
We need to learn from this great missionary for our work in a Pre-Christian West. Patrick saw what was good in the culture and "baptized" what could be redeemed. He respected the civil order, but never compromised the true faith. He won the next generation, preaching the Gospel without compromise ...
Bet you didn't know these 10 things about St. Patrick and Ireland!
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
The most kids know of St. Patrick 's Day is that you must wear green or you'll get a pinch from your friends. Adults see the day as an occasion to celebrate, sometimes with green beer and other assorted alcoholic beverages. However, few really know what they are celebrating or why the holiday is so ...
After the Corned Beef: St. Patrick Challenges Modern Christians to be Missionaries
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
We need to learn a lesson from this great missionary. He saw what was good in the culture and "baptized" what could be redeemed. He respected the civil order, but never compromised the faith. Then, he went for the next generation with all his efforts, preaching the Gospel without compromise and ...
Why it's an inconvenient Lent: St. Valentine's and St. Patrick's
By Marshall Connolly, Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 3/15/2013
For some, this will be an inconvenient Lent. St. Valentine's Day, typically celebrated with sweets, falls a day after Lent begins.However, for Irish Americans who like corned beef and suds on St Patrick's Day, that holiday which often falls on a Friday, which is a day of abstinence, the get a ...
St. Patrick calls us to live in the Heart of the Church for the Sake of the World
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2011
Patrick cultivated a lifestyle of deep, constant and abiding prayer which bore the fruits of ongoing conversion. He learned to discern the voice of the Lord in his daily life, developed the eyes of faith and received the power of the Holy Spirit through which he was able to respond to the call ...
St. Patrick's Prayer against Paganism
Catholic Online • 3/17/2011
This prayer of St. Patrick called "St. Patrick's Breast-Plate" was composed as he prepared for his most important battles against the paganism of the Druids. CHESAPEAKE, VA. (Catholic Online) - This prayer of St. Patrick called "St. Patrick's Breast-Plate" was composed as he prepared for ...
Wear the green on Saint Patrick's Day
By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 3/17/2011
In many schools across the nation, students who forgot to wear green on March 17 received a nasty pinch from friends. St. Patrick's Day evolved from a Catholic holiday to honor the patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick, to a secular holiday celebrating Ireland and Irish culture. The holiday is ...
St. Patrick: Champion of Life, Model of Courageous Faith
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2011
He was raised in an age much like our own, gripped by a "culture of death" and filled with a spirit of lawlessness. CHESAPEAKE, VA. (Catholic Online) - He was raised in a Christian home in Britain toward the end of the fourth century. This was an age much like our own, gripped by a "culture of ...
St. Patrick: Pilgrim, Patron and Model
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2011
The Pilgrim Patrick is a model for our age and for the new evangelization that we so desperately need. We live in a new missionary age. LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - He was raised in a Christian home in Britain toward the end of the fourth century. This was an age much like our own, gripped by a ...
St. Patrick’s legacy much more than as a cultural symbol, Irish primate says
Catholic Online • 3/17/2011
ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (Catholic Online) – St. Patrick is much more than a symbol of Irish history and heritage, and celebrations that reduce him to that distort the truth and fail to do justice to his legacy, said the primate of all Ireland in a St. Patrick’s Day message. Archbishop Sean Brady ...
Green potatoes? Must be St. Patrick’s Day
By Augusta Scattergood • The Christian Science Monitor • 3/16/2011
(The Christian Science Monitor) - My younger daughter was born one day shy of St. Patrick’s Day. We named her Kate for her Great-Aunt Kitty because we loved the name, not because she was Irish. I didn’t understand then that a strong ancestral link could be forged with a country across the sea. My ...
Corned beef Catholic fast? When St. Patrick’s Day is a Lenten Friday
By Joseph Pronechen • National Catholic Register • 3/16/2011
BOSTON, Mass. (National Catholic Register) – When March 17 falling on a Friday in Lent, can corned beef and cabbage make its way to the dinner plates of Catholics celebrating St. Patrick’s Day? For many, the answer depends on location. While some dioceses grant dispensations from the Lenten ...
Who was the man named Saint Patrick?
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 3/10/2011
Saint Patrick - remembered with parades, the wearing of green and feasts throughout the world wherever there are people of Irish descent, or wish to be -- was the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland who is credited with bringing Christianity to the country. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...
St. Patrick Day Party
Catholic Online • 2/17/2011
St. Patrick's Day Party The Knights of Columbus will be holding the Second Annual St. Patrick's Party on Saturday, March 12th. Tickets are on sale in the narthex. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.oloh-council.org/stpats.
Cardinal Brady Calls for Renewal of Irish Church on St. Patrick's Day
Catholic News Agency • 3/17/2010
'There is true freedom in humbly acknowledging – like the wounded healers Peter and Patrick – the full truth of our sinfulness.' ARMAGH, Ireland (CNA/EWTN News) - Cardinal Sean Brady, Primate of All Ireland, spoke about renewal in his St. Patrick´s day homily at St. Patrick´s Cathedral in Armagh, ...
1st Annual St. Patrick's Day Party
Catholic Online • 2/8/2010
Join your fellow parishioners (adults-only) for a St. Patrick's Day Party in the parish hall on Saturday, March 6th from 7-11 p.m. Enjoy good food, drink and entertainment. Local legend, Ted Garber, will be performing as well as Irish dancers from the O'Neill-James School of Irish ...
St. Patrick’s Cathedral Opened to Archbishop Timothy Dolan
By Randy Sly • Catholic Online • 4/15/2009
On Wednesday, The Most Reverend Timothy Dolan will be officially installed as the 10th Archbishop for the See of New York. The complete text of his Vespers homily is included in our article. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) – Archbishop Timothy Dolan knocked on the doors of St. Patrick’s ...
Cardinal Calls Irish to the Faith of St. Patrick
Zenit News Agency • 3/17/2009
Remember the man who described himself as an ambassador for God and who prayed that it might never happen that he should lose the people which God had won for himself at the end of the earth. ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (Zenit) - An Irish cardinal is calling for a renewal of faith among his country's ...
Bishop Martino: Politicization of St. Patrick's Day Event
Catholic Online • 3/15/2009
HB 26, proposed state legislation, would put a government agency in charge of settling labor disputes involving private, religious entities. SCRANTON, Pa. (Catholic Online) - The Bishop of Scranton, the Most Rev. Joseph Martino, has expressed concerns in the past over the possible misuse of the ...
Heaven Touches Earth: Papal Liturgy at Saint Patrick’s
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 4/19/2008
The Pope used the structure of the great Cathedral as the symbolic framework for addressing the interior meaning of the Christian vocation and mission. NEW YORK, NY (Catholic Online) - Pope Benedict arrived at the historic Cathedral of St. Patrick’s, in the heart of New York, City, greeted by ...
Conquered by St. Patrick’s Mountain: Irish peak proved more difficult than anticipated
By F. Anthony D'Alessandro • The Christian Science Monitor • 3/27/2008
WESTPORT, County Mayo, Ireland (The Christian Science Monitor) - Running with the bulls triggered more terror, but climbing Ireland's Croagh Patrick proved tougher. While I carefully planned strategies for a year in advance to successfully run in Pamplona, Spain, my climb of Croagh Patrick (St. ...
Conquered by St. Patrick's Mountain
By F. Anthony D'Alessandro • The Christian Science Monitor • 3/17/2008
Running with the bulls triggered more terror, but climbing Ireland's Croagh Patrick proved tougher. While I carefully planned strategies for a year in advance to successfully run in Pamplona, Spain, my climb of Croagh Patrick (St. Patrick's Mountain) in Ireland was totally impromptu. My wife, ...
Catholics to celebrate feast of St. Patrick two days earlier in 2008
By Michael Kelly • Catholic News Service • 7/19/2007
DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - Catholics worldwide will celebrate the feast of St. Patrick two days earlier next year after the Vatican gave permission to move the feast day to avoid a conflict with Holy Week. Traditionally St. Patrick and all things Irish are celebrated March 17. However, in ...
St. Patrick: Man, Myth & Holiday
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St. John Baptist Rossi
This holy priest was born in 1698 at the village of Voltaggio in the diocese of Genoa and was one of the four children of an excellent and highly respected couple. When he ws ten a nobleman and his wifre who were spending the summer at Voltaggio obtained permission from his parents to take him back with them to Genoa to be trained in their house. He remained ... continue reading
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St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461. Along with St. Nicholas and St. Valentine, the secular world shares our love of these saints. This is also a day when everyone's Irish. There are many ... continue reading
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St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr whose feast day is November 25th. She is the patroness of philosophers and preachers. St. Catherine is believed to have been born in Alexandria of a noble family. Converted to Christianity through a vision, she denounced Maxentius for persecuting Christians. Fifty of her converts were then burned to death by ... continue reading
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St. Michael, the Archangel - Feast day - September 29th The name Michael signifies "Who is like to God?" and was the warcry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against satan and his followers. Holy Scripture describes St. Michael as "one of the chief princes," and leader of the forces of heaven in their triumph over the powers of hell. He has been ... continue reading
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