{"id":10679,"date":"2025-03-17T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2025-03-16T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T03:01:56","slug":"happy-st-patricks-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/17\/happy-st-patricks-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This date in history marks the 1564th anniversary of the death of Saint Patrick; the sixth-century icon who lives in perpetuity by virtue of his 30 years of activity in restoring the Christian Faith to the island of Ireland. The video below takes a serious look at how St. Patrick&#8217;s day came about. And no, it isn&#8217;t about getting drunk and engaging in gluttonous behavior on March 17th.  <\/p>\n<p>Dave Stotts takes a look at the history surrounding the life of St. Patrick in this video &#8211; watch time almost an hour. Damsel and I watched it and got a lot out of the actual reasons and history behind the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebration. There is a good amount of travelogue footage in the video as well. I recommend watching it on the You Tube full-screen and not in the &lt;iframe&gt; below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2hXAkIWWac?si=1suoFepyIJIU7v1H\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of gluttony, we&#8217;re going to have a traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner to celebrate, but not in the portions that would actually make us gluttons. We might celebrate with an Irish cocktail for dessert. Hope that y&#8217;all have a great day.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the video, Dave, the host and narrator of the video, offers this rendition of a prayer attributed to St. Patrick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May the Strength of God guide us.<br \/>\nMay the Power of God preserve us.<br \/>\nMay the Wisdom of God instruct us.<br \/>\nMay the Hand of God protect us.<br \/>\nMay the Way of God direct us.<br \/>\nMay the Shield of God defend us.<br \/>\nMay the Angels of God guard us.<br \/>\n&#8211; Against the snares of the evil one.<\/p>\n<p>May Christ be with us!<br \/>\nMay Christ be before us!<br \/>\nMay Christ be in us,<br \/>\nChrist be over all!<\/p>\n<p>May Thy Grace, Lord,<br \/>\nAlways be ours,<br \/>\nThis day, O Lord, and forevermore. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen, and and have a blessed St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cactus-irish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7747\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This date in history marks the 1564th anniversary of the death of Saint Patrick; the sixth-century icon who lives in perpetuity by virtue of his 30&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,73,83,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-holidays","category-notions","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10688,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions\/10688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}