How is It That in Ireland, Where They Had No Knowledge of God And Cherished Unclean Things, They are Now a People of The Lord? The Little Known Confession of St. Patrick

Teresa Neumann (exclusive) : Mar 17, 2005
The Confession of St. Patrick

Reporter’s Note: In my past life -- before embracing a saving relationship with Jesus Christ -- I was an enormously proud Irish-American from an ethnically rich Midwest town in which a raucous drinking culture thrived.

Needless to say, St. Patrick's Day for many in my hometown was an excuse to drink as much as possible. It was a day of green hair, green faces, green beer and countless episodes of vandalism involving gallons of green paint . . . and not just by a few. It seemed the town's entire population appeared out of nowhere every March 17 to party and party hard. One year, students at a local college woke up to find green water flowing from the school's landmark fountain!

Dismissed at the time as being "all in fun," living now as a born-again Christian on the west coast, the scope of such celebrations occurring in the eastern third of the United States every "Paddy's Day" are absolutely mind-boggling.

How sad that most people either don't know who St. Patrick was or don't care, for if they did they would know that the day is set aside to commemorate and remember one of the most humble, saintly men who ever served our Lord and Savior.

Patrick, a former slave, brought the gospel in 431 AD to the wildly pagan island of Ireland -- roughly 200 miles wide and 300 miles long -- and lived to see the entire population saved in his lifetime. Before he died, he penned his "Confessions," a document of huge historic and religious importance. To read it is to peer into the very soul of Patrick.

In commemoration of this great saint, Breaking Christian News encourages you to read The Confession of St. Patrick, offered on the following link . . . and may His Road rise up to meet you!—Teresa Neumann, Breaking Christian News