1. Tuesday 15th March 2011
In his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a slave to a chieftan named Milchu in Dalriada, a territory of the present county of Antrim in Ireland, where for six years he tended his master's flocks in the valley of the Braid and on the slopes of Slemish, near the modern town of Ballymena.

2. Children today are still kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Released in 2010 the film ‘I am Slave’ is based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer. The story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia,daughter of champion wrestler Bah,is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum, who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London, where her name is changed, but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain. Written minifie-1  

3. Prayer:
God of hope and freedom, inspire us in our work to loosen the chains of human trafficking in our world. Strengthen us so that like St. Patrick, we may stand firm in our resolve to create a slave‐free world. Amen