Next year the 17th of March, known to millions of piss heads across the globe as St. Patrick's Day, will fall in the middle of Holy Weeks which is a time when devoted Catholics must be careful of the sins they commit by eating and, especially, drinking the wrong things.
Well the Catholic Church has always been flexible, especially when there are huge amounts of money at stake, and it has granted an indulgence of sorts to the booze industry by moving St. Patrick's Day to the 15th of March for next year only. The 15th is the Saturday before Palm Sunday and, even though it is still in Lent when many give up drinking, getting legless on the that day must be less of a sin that if one got totally arsed on the actual Monday.
Sláinte!
Well the Catholic Church has always been flexible, especially when there are huge amounts of money at stake, and it has granted an indulgence of sorts to the booze industry by moving St. Patrick's Day to the 15th of March for next year only. The 15th is the Saturday before Palm Sunday and, even though it is still in Lent when many give up drinking, getting legless on the that day must be less of a sin that if one got totally arsed on the actual Monday.
Sláinte!
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