
‘Would The Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up.’ was the title of a play we wrote and performed, first in Kieran’s Irish pub in Downtown Minneapolis, and subsequently in numerous locations in the US, Australia and even back home in Ireland.
It depicted a Patrick far removed from the drunken, brawling Irish ‘Paddy’ characature.
At 3.14 the morning of St. Patrick’s day my phone, which I had forgotten to turn off, ‘pinged’
Believe it or not it was a message from saint Patrick!
Yes, my dear friend Paddy Murphy had sent me this message from deep in the Irish countryside.
‘Happy St Patrick’s Day. May the grace and love of the God he came to tell us of, impact your life afresh today.’
The timing was perfect. It was 3.14 Numerically this is pi. Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. It represents God’s infinite and unfailing LOVE reflected in love’s 16 attributes described in 1 Cor.13.
This ‘Paddy’ is a faithful and faith filled Irishman who with his wonderful wife Breda have battled and prayed and worked for years in the face of great personal adversity, as did his namesake, for the salvation of Ireland!
He is indeed a ‘Real’ modern day, living saint Patrick.
……Then all the world witnessed another ‘Would the Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up.’ drama, this week, at The White House!
As in our play it echoed uncannily Patrick’s initial showdown on Tara hill with the dark druidic powers that held sway in Ireland at that time!
There has been much commentary on this. Here is one rather raw but truthful analysis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2P3XMHKzY
Johnny Enlow’s brilliant Unfiltered Episode 146 this week, connecting Enoch and Patrick, brings this conflict right up to the present day.
Here is that link….
https://rumble.com/v6qs42i-what-enoch-said-about-now-johnny-enlow-unfiltered.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp
As we prepare to return to Ireland for 5 weeks on Tuesday, here is a story from our last trip that maps beautifully on to all of this……
At the end of our trip we took our friends Brian and Lyn to see London/ Derry, Hilary’s birthplace.
From the train we walked straight to the Guildhall. On trying to enter, we were told we would have to stand to the side because a very important person was about to arrive, unannounced.
As we waited, a fleet of limousines pulled up and out stepped the then Irish, Taoiseach (head of government) referred to in the above commentary, Simon Harris.
An orchestrated photo shoot with Harris and the newly appointed (not elected) African Derry City Mayor followed, before they walked within an arms reach of us into the Guildhall.

Brian and Lynn Hilary and myself realized it was the cue for a song, and spontaneously began singing together….
Lord Jesus we enthrone You…..We proclaim you are King of Derry and of Ireland.
A flock of doves in perfect formation then flew over our heads, as if heaven was approving and answering!
The four of us subsequently prayer walked ‘The Walled City’. Then we realized the gate we had started and ended at, was Castle Gate!


We smiled as we sang once again ‘Come Lord Jesus and take your place’ ….realizing we were inviting our ‘servant’ King of the Castle to enter at the most ‘humble’ of the 7 gates.
We sensed the ‘kings of the earth’ , that we had just been brought near to in that place and time, would soon be ousted by Jesus, the true High King of Ireland.
The next morning one of those photos of Simon Harris, posted above, made it onto the front page of the Belfast Telegraph.
It seemed the disarray of the flock of doves captured above Harris, was the contrary sign to the beautifully ordered and peaceful ‘dove’ formation we had been given, as we proclaimed ‘Jesus’ King.
It was no surprise then that shortly thereafter Harris was toppled as Ireland’s ‘head’, and that the corrupt establishment he represented, has now been exposed to the world from America’s White House.
This is indeed the time spoken of by Enoch and Daniel when the “kings of the earth’ will experience tribulation as they are judged and the kingdom of God is delivered into the hands of ‘the saints of the Most High’ (Dan.7;14)