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by bcadmin | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Food & Travel, News, Recipes, Saints, St. Patrick | 0 |
In Ireland on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day has become an elaborate national holiday that allows people to attend church, celebrate Irish heritage, and join in meals honoring the saint. Although the holiday began in Ireland, Americans joined in, though it is unclear whether it involved the Charitable Irish Society in Boston in 1737 or […]
by bcadmin | Mar 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Ireland, Global church, News, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day | 0 |
The legend of St. Patrick
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 26, 2022 | Bishop Williams, crosier, Episcopal ring, News, Pastoral staff, Pectoral cross, Sacred symbols, Shamrock, Single rose, St. Patrick, Zucchetto | 0 |
When then-Father Joseph Williams’ appointment as auxiliary bishop was publicly announced Dec. 10, he concelebrated a morning Mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul with Archbishop Bernard Hebda and held a press conference immediately afterward.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 8, 2021 | Local News, News, Rural Life Sunday, Shieldsville, St. Patrick | 0 |
When St. Patrick in Shieldsville hosts the archdiocese’s annual Rural Life Sunday Mass June 27 at 10:30 a.m. in the church parking lot, it plans to roll out the welcome mat — and a hay wagon for the celebrant, Archbishop Bernard Hebda, as well as an organ on wheels.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | Cedar Lake, Father Michael Miller, Local News, News, St. Patrick, St. Patrick in Cedar Lake, tabernacle | 0 |
Every time Father Michael Miller processes into the sanctuary of St. Patrick in Cedar Lake at the start of Mass, he pauses to tap his ring on the base where the tabernacle sits.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2021 | Church in Africa, Ireland, lead, Missionaries, News, South Sudan, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day | 0 |
In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, Ireland’s embassy to the Holy See highlighted the significant and historic role that missionaries from the island have played and are playing in service of those most in need on a daily basis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2021 | feast days, Featured, News, Saints, St. Joseph, St. Patrick | 0 |
The feast of St. Patrick (March 17th) and the feast of St. Joseph (March 19th) are often journeyed through in such quick, celebratory fashion that one can easily miss the divine intelligence which has ordained that these two men of faith be celebrated so close to one another. Their lives of mission and profoundly prayerful […]
by bcadmin | Mar 17, 2021 | ArchwayPublishing, Conversation, Derek Pettinelli, Fachtna Joseph Harte, Flames at Twilight: The Novel of St. Patrick and Ireland, News, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day | 0 |
St. Patrick’s Day is here once again and people all over the world are getting ready to celebrate with festivities and parades. But why is it that St. Patrick’s Day has become such a huge celebratory event? And did he really drive all the snakes from I…
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The life of St. Patrick is more story than history, with myths and legends weaving and twisting their way through his deeds like Celtic knotwork through the Book of Kells, intersecting fact and fantastical and the truthful with the truth. One of these tales features an extraordinary debate between the holy patron of Ireland and […]
by bcadmin | Mar 17, 2021 | Blessed Trinity, Breastplate, Daily Quote, Jesus Christ, News, Saints, St. Patrick | 0 |
St. Patrick’s Breastplate, I Bind Unto Myself Today I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. I bind this day to me forever, by power of faith, Christ’s Incarnati…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, History, Holy Days & Feasts, Ireland, News, St. Patrick, Writing | 0 |
Author’s note: there are many legends and stories of St. Patrick. In an attempt to view the saint from a different perspective, I offer a reflection on one of the most significant events in the life of the “Apostle to the […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 17, 2020 | News, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day, U.S. & World News | 0 |
If, as the bromide says, everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, what if there’s no sign of St. Patrick’s anywhere to be seen on March 17?
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