Happy Saint Patrick's Day =]

[bluejeans]

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!~Sona La Le Padraig!

Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated each year on March 17th. In Ireland St. Patrick's day is both a holy day and a national holiday. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland as he was the one who brought Christianty to Ireland.
According to Legend, saint Patrick used a shamrock to explain about God. This shamrock which looks like a clover, has three leaves on each stem. Saint Patrick told people that the shamrock was like the idea of the Trinity- That in one God there are three divine beings, the Father the son and the holy Spirit. The shamrock was sarced to the deurids, so Saint Patrick's use of it explaining the Trinity was very wise.
Another tale about Saint Patrick is that he drove the snakes from Ireland. Different versions of the story tell of him standing upon a hill using his wooden staff to drive the serpents into the sea. The story of St. Patrick and the snakes is a metopher for his bringing Christainty to Ireland and driving out the pagen religions.

How do you celebrate St Paddy's day? I wear all green clothes and go to mass, watch the dublin parade and sometimes go to a ceili. What stories have you heard of Saint Paddy?

[evergreen]

Yay for national pride i had to try and explain to my boyfriend what St.Patrick actually did so i explained what you wrote above. His only response was "And you celebrate that by drinking beer, why?" lol I laughed so hard.

[winter-soul]

OMG!!!I'm getting an iPod Shuffle for my b-day (March 28)!!!!!Oh and another random thing, the movie Avatar is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bluejeans]

Yay for national pride i had to try and explain to my boyfriend what St.Patrick actually did so i explained what you wrote above. His only response was "And you celebrate that by drinking beer, why?" lol I laughed so hard.

Ha! xP Some people think is just an excuse for irish people to drink.

OMG!!!I'm getting an iPod Shuffle for my b-day (March 28)!!!!!Oh and another random thing, the movie Avatar is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Errr....What has that to do with St. Patrick?

[Hanoverian]

Oh, today, St. Patricks day, is my kittys B-DAY! But the story is really cool- I never knew who St. Patrick was before I read this!

[Animallover610]

My elementary teachers tried so hard to make us believe. My third grade teacher turned over 5 of the desks, but shaving cream everywhere, and wrote a message on the whiteboard. I think back to what we said and did back then and laugh. It was really funny.
OMG I never knew that! I was wondering about that today.

I got to eat lucky charms from a cup in math. Hehe.....

[evergreen]

Yay for national pride i had to try and explain to my boyfriend what St.Patrick actually did so i explained what you wrote above. His only response was "And you celebrate that by drinking beer, why?" lol I laughed so hard.

Ha! xP Some people think is just an excuse for irish people to drink.

Yeah. it's deffinatly not all about drinking.....that being said i still plan on going out tonight and getting some green beer with friends XD

[bluejeans]

Deffianatly xD

The Simpsons are always taking the mick out of the Irish drinking xP

One epsiode Mr Burns go 'We're going to seach for the rare-est thing every'(He said something like that) and then Homer goes 'A sober Irishman' xP

[Soyokaze-Kensei]

Ha!spent the whole day listening to slit-your-wrist old irish songs and talking