It's a day I think of as Amateur Night #1 (New Year's Eve is #2), based on my experience as a dissolute single guy during most of the 80s and early 90s, and my observations over the years of the usual silly fools people make of themselves on this night.
The reality and the legacy of who St. Patrick was and what St. Patrick represented is quite different from what is celebrated at watering holes around the world each year.
Noteworthy:
"We today have the same opportunity as Patrick and his spiritual sons and daughters, that of saving civilization -- this time from the pagans elected throughout the West. We who are Christian inhabit lands that have become strange to us, and foreign to God. Our lands are filled with people described by St. Paul as the 'enemies of Christ' (Phil. 3:18).
Let us bring change to our lands, true freedom to our lands. In the words of President Kennedy's Inaugural, 'Let us go forth to lead the land we love, knowing that, here on earth, God's work must truly be our own.'"
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