With St. Patrick’s Day on a Sunday, it’s the perfect time to serve up a festive post-Mass brunch to honor this great saint. Some say no Irish breakfast is complete without a side of authentic potato farls. Originally devised to use up leftover mashed potatoes, it is a simple dish, requiring only pantry staples, but it creates delicious breakfast or anytime fare. Try the “Authentic Irish Potato Farls” at www.BiggerBolderBaking.com, where you’ll also find recipes for Irish scones, soda bread and apple cake.
The life of St. Patrick is a story full of intense drama – kidnapped by pirates, enslaved and escaped only to return to spread the Gospel in the land of his captors. In 1959, American Catholic novelist John Edward Beahn retold that story as a biographical novel based on “The Confession,” the 5th-century saint’s autobiographical work. Beahn’s “A Man Cleansed by God: A Novel on St. Patrick’s Confession” was published in 1959 in narrative form, revealing aspects of the Irish saint’s life that might otherwise have been lost. Get to know the true St. Patrick in the more recent re-release of this classic novel from TAN Books and pray his powerful lorica prayer found at www.CatholicNewsHerald.com.