Bind On the Breastplate of St. Patrick

by | Mar 17, 2022 | a current event, Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Saints, St. Patrick

SEAN FITZPATRICK “Go, Patrick,” a voice echoed through his sleep, “thy ship is prepared! Arise and go!” Patrick arose and went with a prayer on his lips. He slipped unseen from his master’s house and fled down the western shore where he saw a ship disembarking. “Thy ship departs, Patrick,” the voice cried again in his ears. Patrick plunged into the sea and caught a rope tossed to him by one of the sailors. After being kidnapped from his coastal home in Scotland to serve as a slave of a Druid priest in Ireland for six years, Patrick, the son of a Roman deacon, was free again. It was not the first time that Patrick would spurn pagan tyranny in his life. In years to come, he would end their oppression not by fleeing, but by bringing them freedom, arising armed and protected by a great, bright Breastplate bound to his soul. After escaping from Ireland, the young Saint Patrick traveled to a monastery in France where he met with his uncle, St. Martin of Tours. He began studying for the priesthood and was ordained under the patronage of St. Germain. After years of missionary work, Patrick was chosen...

St. Patrick – Happy Feast Day!

by | Mar 17, 2022 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Saints, St. Patrick

  Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 493. Some sources say 460 or 461. —Ed. He had for his parents Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St. Martin of Tours. Kilpatrick still retains many memorials of Saint Patrick, and frequent pilgrimages continued far into the Middle Ages to perpetuate there the fame of his sanctity and miracles. In his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a slave to a chieftan named Milchu in Dalriada, a territory of the present county of Antrim in Ireland, where for six years he tended his master’s flocks in the valley of the Braid and on the slopes of Slemish, near the modern town of Ballymena. He relates in his “Confessio” that during his captivity while tending the flocks he prayed many times in the day: “the love of God“, he added, and His fear increased in me more and more, and the faith grew in me, and the spirit was roused, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers, and in the night nearly the same, so that whilst in the woods and on the...

Hoy es fiesta de San Patricio, patrono de Irlanda que cambió historia de Nueva York

by | Mar 17, 2019 | Patron Saints, St. Patrick

“Yo era como una piedra en una profunda mina; y aquel que es poderoso vino, y en su misericordia, me levantó y me puso sobre una pared”, decía San Patricio, Patrono de Irlanda cuya fiesta se celebra el 17 de marzo. La devoción por el Santo de los irlandeses en Nueva York (Estados Unidos) hizo que esta ciudad se torne todos los años de color verde. Source: Hoy es fiesta de San Patricio, patrono de Irlanda que cambió historia de Nueva...

Launch of New Website and Registrationfor World Meeting of Families 2018 

by | Jul 21, 2017 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Amoris Laetitia, Children, Family MInistry, Pilgrimage, Salesian News, St. Patrick, Teens and Young Adults, World Meeting of Families, Youth Ministry

SALESIAN FAMILY OF NORTH AMERICA!  INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PILGRIMAGE TO ST. PATRICK’S IRELAND AND THE WORLD MEETING OF THE FAMILIES WILL BE COMING SOON.  STAY ON THE LOOKOUT AT HTTPS://DonBoscoSalesianPortal.org HOMEPAGE AND E-SERVICE. Source: Launch of New Website for World Meeting of Families...