Irish Truth

Some of the stories about St. Patrick and St. Brigid, Irish Saints, seem to many people to be beyond fact as in, “That did not really happen.”  Such unfortunates are wandering in ignorance.  The Irish are great story tellers.  These stories are filled with truth, the really real, and the way they are passed on is to give them their power and their ability to be remembered.  The truth of any event, for the Irish, is found in the facts of the story.  Truth is meant to change our lives, challenge us to change.  The post modern world of STEM school thinking, is all about facts.  Facts are lots of pieces of information, knowledge that take up the space in our heads, but change nothing.  When we run out of space in the brain, we have to forget some stuff to make room for new stuff.  No one forgets a good Irish story.  I know people, sceptics, who say the stories a priest tells about his sister Maureen are untrue.  Well, may you people not find Brigid and Patrick at the Pearly Gates when you get there.  They might vote you out.  Irish, of course, get a free pass.