Reflections of Saint Patrick's Day

Hello Everybody,
Saturday I celebrated Saint Patrick's Day with my fiancee up in Cleveland. At 7:30 in the morning we went to Saint Patrick's Parish in Cleveland. It's a Catholic church and monastery that was erected in the mid-to late 1800s. The architecture in there was magnificent. After the long mass, the church had a free breakfast with eggs, bacon, biscuits and juice. After that we went to the Renaissance hotel by tower city so we would have some place warm to go to after the parade and also so her grandparents could see the parade while indoors. Overall the day was fun. Say a parade, watched the Fred Martin car guys hour block extravaganza, and ate a lot of broccoli.

My reflection focuses on my thoughts about St. Patrick. Saint Patrick was a missionary to Ireland around 400-500 C.E. He is credited to bring Christianity to the Emerald Island and bring the death of pagan religion out there. One legend tells how he used the shamrock as an illustration about the Trinity. Because of his contributions, that's why Ireland has a huge Catholic faith.

My frustration comes from how the day people celebrate St. Patrick is an excuse to get drunk, fornicate, and to be a bunch of wild heathens. First, the bars open at 8:00 in the morning. Sweet i can get drunk all day and probably get a DUI and maybe run over a kid. Second, at the parade, there were so many drunk people there that a group of girls were holding on to each other while walking because they couldn't walk a straight. Also, a man came out from the crowd and attacked a firefighter who was marching in the parade, good thing the cops threw him to the ground and arrested him. Third, Walking back from the parade, there were 2 guys dressed in green pimp outfits and one of the ladies who was walking in front of me made a comment about how she loved to suck on his balls. Man, i bet when Saint Patrick was Alive, he wore a pimp suit too while being a missionary. Those pagan women probably wanted to suck on his balls too. Lastly, As Laura, her dad, and I were driving home we had a green light and there were kids walking across the street and almost got hit. Breaking the law on St. Patrick's Day, Sweet, I guess i can go and kill people or pee on a cops leg.

My main beef with this is what was the church doing to help prevent the lewd traditions of Saint Patty's Day? At Mass, the bishop talked about Saint Patrick's life but never challenged the church or said anything profound or life changing. What have the protestants done to address this issue, Have church parties and pot luck dinners probably.

To think that Patrick went to rid paganism out of Ireland and to be an example of spreading Christianity to the ends of the earth. Now it look like pagan influence has had the upper hand on Patrick.