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St Patrick – Equal to the Apostles

~By Father Jeremy McKemy, March 17, 2014 PATRICK’S EARLY LIFE St. Patrick, one of the few saints I recognized before becoming Orthodox, lived somewhere around the years of 390-460 AD.  People all over the world still celebrate his feast day, though it is usually by consuming alcohol, wearing the color green, and perhaps decorating with four-leaf clovers.  But who was St. Patrick?  What kind of life did he live?  I read his autobiography and put

Trust and Surrender

Power, according to Jesus and the Trinity, is not something to be “grasped at” (see Philippians 2:6-7). I don’t need to cling to my title, my uniform, my authorship, or whatever other trappings I use to make myself feel powerful and important. Waking up inside the Trinitarian dance, I realize that all of this is rather unimportant; in fact, it’s often pretense that keeps me from my True Self and gets in the way of