Shamrocks Blossom Forth by Our Kitchen Window
Warm greetings to you as we begin our 5th week of Great Lent!
In Irish Gaelic, the post’s title literally means, Happy Feast Day of St. Patrick, and pronounced in English: Law Fay-lah Paw-rig sona ghit.
Today (March 30/17), on the old style Julian calendar, we celebrate St. Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland.
Icons of 5th Century St. Patrick often show him with or holding a three-leafed shamrock growing on a single stem. When he was asked to explain the Mystery of the Holy Trinity in a simple manner, St. Patrick picked a tiny shamrock (a low growing plant of the clover family) and with its three lobed leaves on a single stem, demonstrated how God the Father-God the Son-and God the Holy Spirit, are the Holy Trinity – One in Essence, and Undivided… Our One God in Three Persons!
Please see this fascinating material from the Royal Irish Academy about St. Patrick, written by the 7th century monk Muirchú.
The 2019 Youth Choir sing a very abbreviated version from The Breastplate of St. Patrick.
Through the prayers of St. Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland, may God bless you and give you help!