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Hey there, sprouts. Today isoutz. Today is Tuesday, March 17th, 2020. And it is also the feast day of a beloved saint.

Today is the feast day of St. Patrick. So if your name is Patrick, if you are Irish, or if you simply like the color green, I would like to wish you a very happy feast day. Now, St. Patrick is an amazing

saint. And he has a lot to teach us about the sin of pride and the way that we should be acting if we want to really rely on

God, and that is the virtue of humility. So first, a little about St. Patrick. So St. Patrick was

born in England, and he was raised Christian. But when St. Patrick was just 16 years old, druids from the island of

Ireland, which was nearby, came and they kidnapped Patrick. They took him back to Ireland,

and they forced him to be their slave for six years. For six years, Patrick didn't know

if he would ever go back and see his family. He didn't know if he would ever be free again.

He was forced to be a slave. Now, at the time, the druids in Ireland had never heard about

Christ.

They were not Christian.

In fact, they were very violent, pagans.

They worshipped idols, and they did all sorts of really terrible things in this worship and practice.

Now, eventually, after six years, Patrick was able to escape.

He escaped the people that had him as a slave, and he went back to England.

Eventually, he found his family.

Now, during this time, he also began to feel a call to the priesthood.

He answered that call and was ordained a priest. But he also started to feel a call

to go back to Ireland. Now, this might seem crazy. If you had been kidnapped and forced to be a

slave for six years and been treated so terribly, would you want to go back there and help those people?

Well, most people would not want to do that. But St. Patrick felt a very strong calling from

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