Sunday, March 16, 2008

St. Patrick for Today

Those who are planning to participate in today's LIVE webcast conversation on St. Patrick will most assuredly want to read:

Previous Blog posts:
2008: Happy St. Patrick's Day!
2007: St. Patrick: Christian Libertarian

Other Blogs:
• Vox Nova: If You Want to Celebrate St Patrick This Year

Articles:
Apostle to the Irish
St. Patrick: Voice of Justice and Mercy
A Man of the Book
Service of the Scribes
Witness to Greatness
Quiet Flirtation
A Culture of Plunder and Praise
A People with a Past
The St. Patrick's Four and Resistance to the War in Iraq

Books:
• Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (Doubleday, 1996).
• T. M. Moore, Celtic Flame: The Burden of Patrick (Xlibris, 2000).
• Mark Atherton, ed., Celts and Christians (University of Wales Press, 2002).
• Philip Freeman, St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography (Simon and Schuster, 2004).
• John Carey, King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings (Four Courts Press, 1998).
• Thomas E. Woods, Jr., How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005).

Read:
The Confession of St. Patrick (translated from the Latin by Ludwig Bieler)
St. Patrick’s Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus.
St. Patrick's Breastplate Prayer

Video:



Our goal is not simply to retell the story of St. Patrick, but to apply the lessons of his life to such contemporary issues as:

• The War in Iraq
• Homelessness
• The Decline of Mainstream Religious Denominations
• Anything you can think of

3pm central for live webcast
This link should take you to the replay and MP3 download

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