Paddy and the Wolves: A Story about Saint Patrick When He Was a Boy

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Paddy and the Wolves: A Story about Saint Patrick When He Was a Boy:
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Product Specifications

Paperback: 44 pages
Publisher: Peanut Butter & Grace (January 4, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1944008306
ISBN-13: 978-1944008307
Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.1 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces

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Product Description Review Nagel\'s gentle prose is designed for children in grades K-2, but mywhole family enjoyed it....As for Nagel\'s included activities, I ate abouthalf of the oatcake dough before it even went in the oven, and the girls had agreat time playing the game on the book\'s back cover. As a homeschooling mom,I found the information at the end of the book most helpful. Nagel provides afascinating biographical sketch, a recipe for the aforementioned (reallytasty) oat cakes, and suggestions for celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day as afamily. Nagel also adapts for little ones several of the prayers attributed toSt. Patrick, including the powerful Lorica. --Not So Formulaic reviewIt\'s nosecret that I love Jen Norton\'s work....Her style is friendly, inviting, funand colorful. I feel like no matter how much I praise her talent with words, Icannot do it justice...The author not only allows the readers to get a glimpseof St. Patrick\'s childhood by revolving the story around shepherding, but alsoallows the child practice in sitting still! The book is just long enough tocatch my \"almost 5\" year olds attention...I read it to him once and helistened and went on his way. Another time my husband read it to him and Iheard our little boy ask, \"what does obey mean?\"...My husband was able toexplain the meaning of that word, and explain how it is important for childrento obey their parents. Thank you, Steve Nagel, for that wonderful opportunity!--Prayer, Wine, Chocolate reviewMy daughters loved this book. I sat down toread it to them and they listened intently to the whole story, even though itwas a little longer than the stories I usually read to them. They are agesthree and four and their attention span held throughout the story because thepictures are very colorful and detailed. This is an imaginative story aboutwhat it was like for St. Patrick as a boy. --Lovely Little Lives reviewI am sothrilled to have been introduced to Paddy and the Wolves. It is a delightfulchildren\'s book with gorgeous illustrations and will be a treasure for ourcollection for years to come. The best part of this book is that it encourageslittle ones to praise the Lord in a special way. If you want to breath newlife into how you celebrate St. Patrick\'s day this year pick up a copy thisgreat book and it\'s coloring companion. --Life, Love, and Sacred Art reviewRead more From the Author The story of Paddy and the Wolves comes from myheart. My mother taught me my name in Gaelic. She could still speak someGaelic having been raised in Nova Scotia, Canada--Scottish Gaelic maybe butnonetheless a bit of a shared history with Patrick, who had a Gaelic name butwas not Irish. More importantly, I took a liking to Patrick in my reading hisConfession. His voice is full of faith in God and doubt in himself. Hisfeelings about his worth and work are undisguised. Patrick did great and goodworks but clearly they did not come cheap at the price.Patrick, SaintPatrick!, was not Irish?Patrick was not Irish by birth. Probably he was aBriton--one of the Gaelic-speaking people who lived in the west of RomanBritain, what\'s now Wales. We know he had a Gaelic name at birth. Hamlets andfarmsteads dotted this coastal region as Patrick knew it. In his own words, hesays his upbringing was \"simple and rustic.\"So how did Patrick get toIreland?Well, the first time he went to Ireland unwillingly. Patrick says,\"When I was a rebellious sixteen-year-old, I was taken captive to Irelandalong with many others.\" He was set to work shepherding. While he was a slave,Patrick prayed, he says, night and day. \"It was there ...I turned with all myheart to the Lord my God....\"When did Patrick become a priest andmissionary?After six years as a slave and shepherd, Patrick escaped by boatbut returned home a changed person. He had a vision in which the voice of theIrish people called to him \"\'We beg you, holy boy, to come and walk againamong us.\'\" Patrick left his family again, trained as a priest, and returnedto Ireland to bring the Christian faith to its people. Patrick persisted inhis efforts for maybe forty years, and his mission met with all sorts ofresistance. He was robbed, attacked, and imprisoned, but Patrick never gaveup. He succeeded in converting thousands, he says--both chieftains andcommoners. Before the Irish, no people had submitted to the Christian faiththat were not within the Empire.Patrick didn\'t hate the people who made him aslave?Slavery was everywhere--at the time maybe a quarter of the populationwere slaves. Slaves were considered merely another kind of property in theancient world. So it was at least uncommon and perhaps revolutionary thatPatrick publicly contested slavery and pled the plight of women slaves, sayingthat they faced special threats and terrors. Patrick clearly detested slaveryitself, in a way only a person who had been a slave might. Saint Patrick\'sprayer was not created by him...but it could have been.The Lorica of SaintPatrick is a prayer hymn attributed to Patrick. And it has the feel oftraditional Irish blessings and prayers. But modern experts date it from the700s. It is a prayer for protection--the word lorica means breastplate. Alovely tradition has it that the Lorica shielded Patrick and his companionsfrom ambush by a chieftain\'s soldiers. Afterwards Patrick\'s group approachedthe chieftain chanting, \"Let them that will, trust in chariots and horses, butwe walk in the name of the Lord.\"What about the Saint Patrick\'s Daycelebrations in America?Well, they began in the later 1700s in Boston, NewYork, and Philadelphia. Over the next century the celebration spread acrossthe new nation. By 1900, Saint Patrick\'s Day parades became demonstrations ofIrish Catholic pride and, later, of social and political power. And it\'sfitting because at its heart stands Patrick, someone who defended thepowerless and loved the Irish with all his heart. Read more See all EditorialReviews

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