Sacredspace - Celebrating St Patrick: A witness to the love of God -14 March 2021(S11E17) - a podcast by Come & See Inspirations team

We have a few things on this weeks full programme for listeners this week. Our main focus ahead of the national holiday on 17th March is a dive back into the SS102fm archive to an 2013 interview with a dear friend of the programme, Fr. Micheal Liston, who joined John and Ann to reflect on the role of St Patrick as a witness to God's love.

In addition John has a quick chat with Trish McCarthy and Geraldine  who are locally involved the the diocesan Lenten project "From Limerick with love" which is in aid of Trocaire's work in South Sudan and where those involved are collectively aiming to walk, cycle or run 6,241km which is the distance from Limerick to South Sudan. You can find out more about it on the diocesan website HERE.

We have our regular notices, saints of the week plus this week we are joined by Fr Frank Duhig to contribute to our weekly reflection on the Sunday gospel. 

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Originally broadcast 17 March 2013:

Fr. Micheal introduces St. Patrick as someone who suffered a lot in his youth, but in the middle of all his suffering, he became conscious of God's presence and love.  Fr. Micheal encouraged us to set aside the external celebrations of St. Patrick's day to look at the model of St. Patrick as someone who had discovered the mysterious presence of God in his life.  We are invited to reflect on the reality that God is here with us as He was for Patrick.  God is fond of us. God has time for us. 

St. Patrick is also a great model of how we should respond to God's grace in our lives.  Patrick recognised his own limitations and the abundance of God's grace working in his life.  Fr. Micheal invited us to confess, as Patrick did, that with all our limitations, it is God who has done this good work in our lives.  Patrick gives glory to God, because the glory is God's.  God has a sheer ghrá (affection/love) for us and we are called through prayer and humility to imitate Patrick by responding to God's grace and love with a spirit of self-giving and gratitude.  This is the true spirit of Patrick.

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