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Br Domenic Xuereb fsp Essay: How male spirituality expresses itself uniquely in the context of young adolescents in a multi-cultural school in the outer western suburbs of Sydney and how the spirituality of the Breastplate of St Patrick can speak to these young men. The context of this essay is how Breastplate spirituality speaks to male students in Catholic schools with a multicultural population. Specifically, the context will be that of young Australian adolescent students in the outer western suburbs of Sydney. The situation is made more complex as we are now living in a fluid, post-modern society. This will affect the way that we come to ‘awakening’, to use Lonergan’s epistemology.1 It also situates the themes of gender and sex within geographical and cultural contexts. I propose further that the breastplate prayer of St Patrick is a way for the young men to come to experience the presence of Christ in their lives more effectively than through creedal statements.2 This finds a backing in the statement by Rohr and Martos in the book The Wild Man’s Journey that the essential mystery of faith for Catholic Christians is the Christ-revealed patterns in life.3 Also, coming to an appreciation of the statement of Socrates that “the unexamined life is not worth living”, the Breastplate prayer is a way of examining one’s life journey in 1 David Ranson. “Maleness: A ‘New’ Context in Spirituality”. In The Australian Catholic Record, (Vol 79, No 3): 299. 2 The Breastplate of St Patrick is a prayer, attributed to St Patrick that is an important prayer at the school. The prayer is: Christ be with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right hand, Christ on my left, Christ where I lie down, Christ where I sit down, Christ where I arise. Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, Christ in the m