Our opening collect for the Memorial of St. Bridget states:
“O God, who guided Saint Bridget of Sweden along different paths of life…”
St.
Bridget did indeed live an interesting life. First, she had eight children which should be cause enough
for being a saint. After her
husband died she lived a disciplined life of the third degree of
Franciscans. She started a
religious order—the Bridgetines—and chastised the popes who had moved from Rome
to Avignon, France. Here she did
not spare words! Along the way she
had many mystical prayer experiences which can be read in some of her books.
St.
Bridget lived out God’s call in her life and proved Jesus’ words, “…whoever does the will of my heavenly Father
is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Wherever
we are in our own vocation, the same God who opened the Red Sea has called us
to a particular mission in our lives.
May we recommit ourselves this morning to this call he has given us.
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