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St. Patrick’s Day and St. Joseph ‘s Day Converge By God’s Design · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  This is your nightly roundup of sports, stories of adaptability, and stories that
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  should be trending but quite frankly aren't. Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Well Tonight on Saint Joseph's Day is a crossover that I never really ever thought
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  I'd do on this podcast, but because they're so close, because it's a
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  little bit of Italian today for Saint Joseph's Day, we also have to remember
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  that just two days ago was this a little Irish as well for Saint Patrick's
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  Day. And these two converging holidays of Saint Joseph's Day and Saint Patrick's Day.
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  I looked into a little more on my blog for WordPress at ALEXGNYC dot
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  com because see, the convergence of the Italian holiday of Saint Joseph's and the
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  Irish holiday of Saint Patrick is so co fitting and so, you know,
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  synchronistic, that's the word I'm looking work. Synchronistic because who built our city,
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  The Irish and the Italians who immigrated here and rolled up their sleeves and
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  you know, cut their teeth and did anything they could to assimilate here,
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  to be here, to be an American. The Irish and the Italians.
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  So the convergence of Saint Patrick's Day week and Saint Joseph's Week just felt symbolic
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  of something we have to get back to, which is people working together.
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  Matter of fact, we also saw that in law enforcement, which I'll get
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  into in a moment because I haven't been on it a little bit, And
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  you gotta hear this clip if you haven't already, I'll play that for you
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  in a moment. But here's the bottom line. The Saint Joseph's Holiday,
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  which is today and every March nineteenth, and the Saint Patrick's Holiday of March
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  seventeenth, honor once again heritages that have built us, that are within our
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  veins and blood and sweat and tears. I mean, personally, I am
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  a member of the Jamison family line. According to my mom, Charles Jamison
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  was what my great great great great grandfather. So the Irish lineage runs a
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  little deep with our family. And every Saint Joseph's, every Saint Patrick's,
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  every Columbus Day, we see the Italian and the Irish pride in their heritage
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  beaming through New York City and at the older of Saint Joseph. Now,
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  how's this for another intrinsically connected situation. Saint Joseph is honoring Christ's father,
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  Joseph of Nazareth. And I'm sure it was a shock when Mary said that
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  she was pregnant and they had not been together in that way, but he
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  had the faith to move them to that inn where Christ was born. We
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  cannot forget that. This Saint Joseph's day. Then let's flip the page to
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  four point thirty two a d After years of being enslaved in Ireland, Patrick
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  at the time, who became Saint Patrick, would go on and convert Ireland
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  to Christianity, carrying on Joseph's work, working hand in hand the Irish and
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  the Italian. And how about this for one more wrench in this whole equation.
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  Patrick's family mother and father were Romans, so he was technically Italian helping
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  the Irish. Can you see unity here in this crossover of days where we
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  talk about the Zeppealese and the you know, for Irish. For Saint Patrick's
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  say, what kind of guinness are you having? Guinness on tap? What
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  bar are you going to? Can you see it's deeper than that, It's
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  deeper than the Zeppelin and the Guinness. Patrick carried on the work that Joseph
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  had faith to carry out years, decades, generations, eons before by bringing
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  Mary to the Inn. They work together, even though they didn't know each
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  other, they work together to bring about Christ into the world, Christ into
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  Ireland. I don't usually get preachy on this podcast, but my, oh
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  my, when you think of the roots that these two men have in common,
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  it's astounding. And I only covered a little bit in my blog on
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  alexianeweshi dot com for Saint Patrick's Day this weekend, knowing and working on the
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  Joe Piscopo show and studying up and seeing the tiktoks on Saint Patrick, who
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  was actually born in England in Wales, believe it or not. He was
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  Scottish, he was Welsh, he was English. But he also helped bring
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  Christianity to Ireland. So you see how they're connected, and that's a godly
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  divine connection. Saint Joseph's the man who brought Jesus to who made it away
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  and made away the Inn for Mary to have baby Jesus generations later, Saint
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  Patrick carrying on the work that he had that Christ obviously was able to do
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  being born at the Inn through the faith of Joseph and Mary, and during
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  the enslavement, Patrick really took on the Christian and Christianity teachings and the faith,
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  and that's why he went back to Ireland as a missionary. So when
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  you look beyond just the great treat for Saint Joseph's Day and the great beers,
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  the green beers for Saint Patrick's Day, and the great music that accompanied
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  both heritages, you see there is a commonality of God there and God's worked
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  there. And I will end today's show by saying I had asked a laud
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  something one place said to me in an email today. It was kind of
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  jarring. It said, Alex Garrett, do you know if you will be
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  in heaven? A minute later, the Rangers scored and that was my answer
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  tonight. We hope we pray right. So maybe when you think of that
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  question, watch your favorite sports team and they'll have the answer for you.
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  The sports gods always know. Also, I believe that. I believe that.
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  But happy Saint Joseph's stay, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. A couple days
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  later, and you know, these two men are intrinsically connected through God's work.
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  It should bring a very different, maybe more nerdy approach to the day,
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  but a more meaningful philosophical approach. They've been practical approach to why those
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  two are saints and why they matter, even generations apart and two days apart
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  each and every March. So yes, in my view, play that Irish
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  music and of course play some Italian music tonight for Saint Joseph's and Saint Patrick.
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  For those two saints, continue the work, and I believe there are
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  reasons why we are here today on this earth. So think about it as
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  you have that green beer and that Zeppeli to honor Saint Patrick and Saint Joseph