{"id":13583,"date":"2012-03-16T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2012-03-16T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:43:58","slug":"celebrating-st-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/16\/celebrating-st-patrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating St. Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pray Tell<\/em> reader Fr. P\u00e1draig McCarthy calls our attention to a couple ways to celebrate St. Patrick&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<p>First, read the texts that Patrick wrote (or rather, the texts that are generally accepted as such). A Web site set up by the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Ireland, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confessio.ie\" target=\"_blank\"><em>St. Patrick&#8217;s Confessio<\/em> <\/a>contains digital copies of the eight surviving manuscripts of the <em>Confessio<\/em> as well as a letter that Patrick wrote to some soldiers of Coroticus who had taken Christians as slaves. Texts are available in Latin, Irish, English, German, Italian or Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>For a musical meditation, Fr. P\u00e1draig recommends a recording of a medieval Office for St. Patrick, from manuscripts in Trinity College, Dublin. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divine-art.co.uk\/CD\/25065info.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Available for purchase <\/a>(CD or download), this recording is sung by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cappella-nova.com\/canty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the shamrocks and snakes. 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