I loved St. Patrick when I was a child. When I was in college it became a day when all we Catholic students got falling-down-puking-drunk. I'm not sure when it dawned on me that St.Patrick would be embarrassed and ashamed to see that his day was set aside for drunkenness and debauchery.
I think that was one of the things that started turning me away from the Catholic church.
I used to love St. Patrick's Day as a child, but now that I am an old man, it only fills me with melancholy and shame.
I'm ashamed to have been born Irish and ashamed to have been born a Catholic. There's not much I could do about my biological birth, but I left the Catholic church many years ago. I think Patrick and Jesus would have done the same.
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