HYMN - I Bind Unto Myself Today (St. Patrick's Breastplate)

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[nessunopassato]

St. Patrick's Breastplate is not a hymn...it is a prayer. The prayer he created.

[HiFiHymnBook]

@nessunopassato It's also the name of the hymn tune.

[nessunopassato]

@HiFiHymnBook no, the name of the hymn is "I bind unto myself today". what you reference it as is not what it is.

[HiFiHymnBook]

@nessunopassato It does get a bit confusing...

The hymn is called "I Bind Unto Myself Today" (which are the words in the first line)

"St. Patrick's Breastplate" is the prayer attributed to St. Patrick and also the name of the tune the words are set to (see something I copied below)

Words: attributed to St. Patrick circa 372-466; Paraphrased by Cecil F. Alexander, 1889.

Music: 'St. Patricks Breastplate' Charles V. Stanford, 1902.

Setting: The English Hymnal, 1906

[svrazel]

@michaelnrdx This kind of binding is as different from magical binding as the power of Christ is different from power of magic. This is a binding in the sense of love, devotion, and duty to the Trinity, to the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, Love. It expresses trust in God's providential care that comes entirely from his goodness and mercy, and has nothing to do with a "protective energy." Such an equivocation to paganism is precisely what St. Patrick would have fought against in Ireland.

[Joefunk3121]

The greatest hynm ever. At least in the top three or four.

Blessings

[MrPaulVanRavenswaay]

thanks for the tune, very well done. unknown to me for 40 some years but now very enjoyable!! what is the organ? i couldn't find anything on it in your profile/comments page. it sounds good!

[loggats]

Pray for us, St Patrick, and this beautiful Roman Catholic hymn, a wonderful piece of the heritage of the Church of Christ. The One church.

[MarcellusTheGreen]

@briank06261973 This is my favorite hymn; indeed it "goes on by the yard" as our organist says. It is difficult to get my fellow Episcopalians to sing all the way through!

[MarcellusTheGreen]

@nessunopassato Protestant doesn't mean anti-Catholic; it means anti-Papal.

[nessunopassato]

@USAsoldier1955 no such thing as protestant catholic faith. . . the two words are in conflict with each other.

St. Patrick followed the Holy order that is the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.

[Loiginer]

Saint Patrick, pray for us!

From an Orthodox Christian!

IC XC + NI KA