Commemoration of St Patrick, Bishop and Missionary to Ireland (AND Eddie's third birthday!)

Before the moun-tains were br-ought forth or the land and the earth was made, from age to age 

you are God. Psalm 90:2

        

                              St Patrick was born in Roman Britain circa 389. As a teen-ager he was taken to Ireland by Irish raiders, and sold as s a slave. After 6 years or so he escaped and retuned home. While in captivity, he had a religious conversion and retuned as a Christian priest and Bishop. His mission concentrated on the west and north where the Gospel had not been preached before. Patrick died in 461. 

Legend has it that St Patrick taught the people the simple yet unfathomable truth of the Holy Trinity, the One in Three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, by showing them a shamrock, a three leaf clover.  

              Photograph of The Ring of Kerry Good Friday, 2001