Patrick's Character and Mind

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(Religion Celtic) Mind Map on Patrick's Character and Mind, created by michaella2010 on 17/04/2013.
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Patrick's Character and Mind
  1. A Vulnerable man
    1. Strong sense that he is a person who is totally alone as he never truely recovered from his capture
      1. C55- I daily expect to be murdered or robbed or reduced to slavery in one way or another
        1. Seamas Mulholland ‘the human face of the spiritual life: uncertainty, pain, hardship, ruined plans, exiled hopes..the spirituality of broken humanity
          1. Patrick was a man ‘who was driven to breaking point by too much laughter and too little self esteem’ IER.
        2. Pride and Humility
          1. Even though he may be self deprecating he has a huge sense of pride that God chose him in preference to his better educated peers. attributed to god
            1. C12- "before I had to suffer I was like a stone lying in the deep mud then he who is almighty came and in his mercy
              1. not only pulled me out but lifted me and placed me at the very top of the wall"
              2. C33-I cannot hide the gift of god which he gave me in the land of my captivity there i sought him and found him...he kept me from all evil because of
                1. his spirit who lives in me and works in me to this very day"
                2. C55- I have been exalted beyond measure by the lord. now that I was neither worthy worthy of this nor a likely choice for the privilege
              3. Courageous
                1. all authority of his office as bishop is giving to god. He was so confident in God’s care and protection he remains Irish in spite of diff & danger &
                  1. To reprimand Coroticus.To demand the return of captives and the booty. To rebuke the British clergy. To speak up in his own defence in the Confessio
                  2. He was so confident in God’s care and protection of him that he has the perseverance to remain with the Irish in spite of danger and difficulty.
                  3. Prayerful
                    1. patrick was a parayerful man as he said as many as "a hundred prayers a night"
                      1. He had a strong bond with god and saw prayer as a method of communication
                      2. Shepherd
                        1. Patrick also emerges from his writings as shepherd and pastor of his flock. it is in this imagery of himself that he uses in the letter
                          1. Hanson identifies a cry of pain of the good shepherd whose flock has been torn asunder.
                          2. Practical
                            1. Charitable
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