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Good morning Today is the Feast of St Patrick, that pilgrim par excellence. At home or in diaspora the Irish will be c茅ili-ing with friends and multifarious strangers,聽 telling their myths and history, cherishing their roots in the soil of Ireland, maybe musing on painful pilgrim journeys to another place and home away from home. Irish Christians will keep high feast, giving thanks for the seed of faith Patrick planted in the God he professed. God will be praised inside churches and at Mass rocks. Some will be in touch with the mystery of God, walking ancient pilgrim routes, climbing bleak mountains like Slemish or Croaghpatrick, where Patrick, as an enslaved exile, guarded sheep聽 - wilderness places that became his school of Gospel study and Prayer, till he was impelled by the Spirit to flee his captivity, and make his way home to Britain and to Gaul.聽Some pilgrims will be drawn to the places linked with Patrick鈥檚 return to Ireland, in response to the cries of the Irish in a dream to, 鈥淐ome and walk among us once more鈥�; Now as their pastor and bishop, to lay the foundation of a Celtic Church and mission that would carry pilgrim monks and nuns across Europe. Contemporary Local voices of reconciliation and prayers for healing will ring on the walls of churches in Armagh and Downpatrick, echoing back the Saint鈥檚 very own prayer for peace and unity here, now:Christ be in all hearts thinking about me;Christ be on all tongues telling of me.Christ be the vision in eyes that see me;In ears that hear me, Christ ever be.聽 Amen