[Resurrection]

Удивительно, как стремится российская душа найти любой предлог для праздника.

Как выясняется, кругом меня - одни ирландцы. Ну хотя бы в душе.



The Confession of St. Patrick

"Before I was humbled I was like a stone lying in the deep mire; and He that is mighty came and in His mercy lifted me up, and raised me aloft, and placed me on the top of the wall."

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I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many. My father was Calpornius, a deacon, son of Potitus, a priest, of the village Bannavem TaburniЊ; he had a country seat nearby, and there I was taken captive.

     I was then about sixteen years of age. I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity to Ireland with many thousands of people---and deservedly so, because we turned away from God, and did not keep His commandments, and did not obey our priests, who used to remind us of our salvation. And the Lord brought over us the wrath of his anger and scattered us among many nations, even unto the utmost part of the earth, where now my littleness is placed among strangers. ...

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...I pray those who believe and fear God, whosoever deigns to look at or receive this writing which Patrick, a sinner, unlearned, has composed in Ireland, that no one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that---as is the perfect truth---it was the gift of God. This is my confession before I die.

[DouViction]

Ага, праздника хочется, щас...))

[Resurrection]

Просто немного это утомительно.



Понятно, конечно, что хочется повеселиться, но в году, кажется, нет ни одного дня когда та или иная религия, страна, народность не отмечает какую-либо дату.