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As you begin St. Patrick's day, are you preparing for a snowstorm like we had in central PA last year, see footage at March 07 Snowstorm?  

More seriously, how does one celebrate St. Patrick's Day during Holy Week?  I hear some have delayed St. Patrick's Day until after Easter, others will just pass over it (e.g., Roman Catholic Church), and die hards place St. Patrick's Day above Holy Week . . . nothing like a parade for a 'secular' holiday.

Previously, I posted on St. Patrick's Day Celebration and The Real St. Patrick.  The Patrick Paradox.html from The Christian Vision Project is another piece to add to the mix, here's the conclusion:

The paradox of Patrick is that to demonstrate the universal ethic of a loving God who transcends human divisions of tribe and race, Patrick took on the particularity of Irish identity. His defiant cry "we are Irish" was proclaimed in solidarity with those who, having enslaved him in the past, were now being killed and abused by his own countrymen. Because Patrick risked becoming Irish, the Irish became Christians.

Those who seek to witness to God's mission in our time must also cast aside their own ethnic prejudices, cultural particularities, political loyalties, and memories of past injustices, in radical identification with the "other." On St. Patrick's Day, it is common to be asked if one is Irish. Perhaps next year, when asked that question, those who know that radical inculturation is essential for Christian witness might recall a certain British missionary, and say "yes."

Yes.