Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2011!

Chuck Colson provides these links for further information about St. Patrick:

Bishop Raymond J. Boland, "The Real St. Patrick," PDF 12 August 2003.

Manya Brachear, "The Real Saint Patrick" (interview with Irish religious scholar Sister Declan), Beliefnet, 7 March 2002.

Mark Atherton, ed., Celts and Christians (University of Wales Press, 2002).

Philip Freeman, St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography (Simon and Schuster, 2004).

Saint Patrick: Voice of Justice and Mercy” and “A Man of the Book: St. Patrick’s Approach to Scripture” by T. M. Moore. Also available: sheet music for “St. Patrick's Breastplate” (poem) set to the hymn “divinum mysterium” (“Of the Father’s Love Begotten”). To order copies, call 1-877-322-5527.

For Further Reading and Information

Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (Doubleday, 1996).

T. M. Moore, Celtic Flame: The Burden of Patrick (Xlibris, 2000).

T. M. Moore, “Witness to Greatness: St. Patrick through the Eyes of a Contemporary,” BreakPoint Online, 15 March 2006.

T. M. Moore, “A Culture of Plunder and Praise,” BreakPoint Online, 2 February 2004.

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

Mark Atherton, ed., Celts and Christians (University of Wales Press, 2002).

Philip Freeman, St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography (Simon and Schuster, 2004).

BreakPoint Commentary No. 980316, “Service of the Scribes: How the Irish Saved Civilization.”

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