From Today’s Mike Church Show, the entire show can be heard here.
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SPECIAL GUEST
Paul MacAree from Ireland Host of EWTN’s - Celtic Connections in Walsingham
Saint Patrick -
He fell away from the faith as a boy at the age of 16 he came back and used many years of his life in prayer.
This is 1,500 years after Saint Patrick and we will still celebrate him tomorrow.
One of those Feast in the calendar and his is remembered the world over.
They either have Irish blood in them or they have a devotion to him or they just like to celebrate anything.
Saint Patrick was a very strong, masculine man.
He wasn’t an effeminate type.
He was captured at 15-16 years old we don’t know where he was captured from but it was Irish Pirates and sold as a slave.
He tended sheep there for 6 years.
St Patrick believed he was suffering b/c he wasn’t saying enough prayers.
He then said he prayed 100 times a day.
He would go out into the snow and pray.
This is when he had his major conversion.
The Lord told him how to escape and he did, then he managed to get on a boat to France.
This is all described in his manuscripts.
He then felt the calling to be a Priest, then became a Bishop.
An angel from Ireland appeared to him - Come Back Holy Youth come back to us.
He went back to Ireland and then he fell in love w/ Ireland.
1600 years the hospitality of the Irish -
Pope Saint Celestine -
Let’s go to the topic of abortion in Ireland -
Read Saint Patricks Confessions.
The Death of Catholic Ireland Has Been Greatly Exaggerated!