Tuesday, 9 June 2026

'A time to be born and a time to die' - For the Feast of Saint Colum Cille

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     "On the seventh day of the mid-winter month [December] Colum Cille was born, and on the ninth day of the mid-summer month [June] h...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

The Real Saint Patrick: 'an intensely loveable character'

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  We close the octave of posts on Saint Patrick's Confession by leaving the last word to Father Francis Shaw SJ. In the stirring quote b...
Monday, 23 March 2026

Saint Patrick in His "Confession"

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   Today we examine the views of Irish writer Alice Curtayne  (1901–81) on the Confession of Saint Patrick. In 1931 the Anthonian Press publ...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

THE CONFESSION OF ST. PATRICK

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     'The Confession of Saint Patrick' is an article from an Australian Catholic news magazine published in 1937. The anonymous auth...
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Discovering the Real Saint Patrick through his Confession

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  Last month the blog featured the work of Irish writer Alice Curtayne on Saint Brigid. Today we can look at the work of one of her contempo...
Friday, 20 March 2026

What is a Confessio?

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Yesterday Sister Máire B. de Paor reminded us of the unique privilege we have as Irish people in having Saint Patrick's  Confessio in w...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Treasuring the Writings of our Father in the Faith

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In yesterday's post we were reminded of Saint Patrick's unique status as a documented saint of fifth-century Britain and Ireland. Th...