![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, his love of prayer increased and he applied himself to the practice of it continuously. ![]() The 16-year-old had a profound sense of his unworthiness before God, but an equally profound sense of confidence in God’s Fatherly love. “And there the Lord opened the sense of my unbelief that I might at last remember my sins and be converted with all my heart to the Lord my God, who had regard for my abjection, and mercy on my youth and ignorance, and watched over me before I knew Him, and before I was able to distinguish between good and evil, and guarded me, and comforted me as would a father his son.” His experience in captivity might have been expected to harden his heart against God, but it actually had the reverse effect. Patrick found himself among pagan strangers in Ireland and was forced into slavery as a herdsman for six years. In his autobiographical work detailing his journey of faith, the fifth century saint, whose feast is marked March 17, offers an inspiring account of his conversion.Ĭaptured from his home country of Britain at a young age, he writes, “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.” You might have heard of Augustine’s Confessions, but have you heard of St. ![]()
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