This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today is the feast of St. Patrick. Not to burst your

bubble but St. Patrick wasn't Irish. He was British.

Catholicism wasn't Irish. He was British. Catholicism came to Britain in the second century and was well established there by the time of Patrick's birth around the year 385. And even though St. Patrick's father was a

deacon and his grandfather a married priest, Patrick says that, I did not then believe in the living God, not even when I was a child.

Nor was he alone in this.

Britain had grown comfortable and began to fall away from Christ by the time of the birth of Patrick.

Now here is a principle.

Material comfort and complacency about our spiritual life always results in slavery to vice and sin.

Spiritual slavery always ends in some form of physical slavery. The Israelites

had to learn this lesson but Christians tend to forget it.

So it's not surprising that Patrick and thousands of other Britons

first lost their faith and then were captured by pirates and sent to Ireland as slaves.

Later Patrick wrote,

We deserved this because we had gone away from God and did not keep his

commandments. We would not listen to our priests who advised us about how we

could be saved. Our father who art in heaven,

hallow it would be your name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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