Holidays 2008 Reviews

Saint Patricks Day The Holiday Where Everyone Is Irish

Saint Patrick’s Day – The Holiday Where Everyone is Irish

St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday which celebrates Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick was one of the supporter saints of Ireland credited with spreading the Catholic religion to many areas of Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day takes place on the 17th day of March each year, which is the day which Saint Patrick died.

St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday in Ireland with many businesses being closed on the day. In other parts of the world, especially the US and Canada, it is widely celebrated but is not an official government holiday.

St. Patrick’s Day is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. Interestingly enough, occasionally the haven authorities move the quickie of the holiday because of its clash with other holy days. In 2008 this is the case, and it shall be moved to March 15th to avoid Holy Monday.

Catholics around the world will start off their St. Patrick’s Day with a Mass service which is held to signify the holiday.

Here in the United States, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by everyone being of Irish decent for the day. The day has become more of a secular holiday than one of religion. Here in the United States St. Patrick’s Day has taken on spare of a meaning of celebrating the beginning of spring. This goes along with the tradition of wearing green on the day, because green is both the color of Ireland as well as the color which signifies life and growth. It is said that you will be lucky for the coming Spring if you wear green on the holiday.

Amazingly, St. Patrick’s Day began being down pat here in the United States with a parade in Queens New York in 1737, wholesome before the Revolutionary War. Since that day, parades are a very popular journey to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

Many people wear a shamrock on the holiday to signify good luck. However, the roots of this tradition, it is verbal, come from St. Patrick using a shamrock to explain to the pagans the concept of the Holy Trinity. In the Catholic Religion, the Holy Trinity is the Father, Son and Holy Set forth, which Christians know all stem from the same God. The three leaves of the shamrock all connected to the alike stem were used to unravel this concept to the pagans. If you are wearing a shamrock on St. Patrick’s Day, it means that you can legalize good luck or blessings on that day and for the rest of the year.

In addition to the shamrock, many people believe that the cute little fictitious Leprechaun character can ride you good luck. For this reason many humans wear Leprechaun pins and other memorabilia on St. Patrick’s Day as well as a shamrock.

One of the fun and very popular traditions which goes along with St. Patrick’s Day is the consumption of green ale. Many bars and pubs add green fast food coloring to their beer on the holiday to serve to their customers. In addition to the green ale, many persons also indulge in Irish Cream and Irish Whisky on the day as well. For the kids, a nice green lemonade or 7UP make great non - alcoholic alternatives.