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A stained glass image of St. Patrick at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Port Clinton, Ohio. (photo: Nheyob’ / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
By John Clark, National Catholic Register, March 17, 2020
John Clark is a course developer for Seton Home Study School and a political speechwriter. He has written two books and hundreds of articles about Catholic family life and apologetics. His newest book is titled Betrayed Without a Kiss: Defending Marriage After Years of Failed Leadership in the Church. John and his wife Lisa have nine children and live in central Florida.
Though he lived more than 15 centuries ago, Patrick has a lesson to teach our world today.
It’s terribly unfortunate when Catholic feast days and holydays become secularized and disconnected from any Christian meaning. St. Valentine’s Day becomes just “Valentine’s Day,” Easter is somehow about bunnies, and Christmas is about new electronics. And though March 17 is still known to the world as St. Patrick’s Day, the secular representation of the day tends to focus more on leprechauns and beer than on St. Patrick himself. Even many of us Christians have lost sight of what we should be celebrating. That’s a shame because there’s a lot to celebrate today.
Born in Britain in the latter years of the fourth century and torn from his home in a slave raid as a young man, St. Patrick went on to be one of the greatest missionaries the Catholic Church has ever known. …
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