Author Topic: Happy Feast Day of St. Bridget of Sweden! (Read 3176 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** October 07, 2012, 09:02:02 PM »

Happy Feast Day of Saint Bridget of Sweden!

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here is the Mass for the Feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden, Widow and Foundress of the Order of Saint Saviour.

Sigismund · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:33:54 PM »

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:46:58 PM »

From the celebrated work of Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, The Liturgical Year: Time after Pentecost - Book V (trans. Dom Laurence Shepherd; Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1949), here is the commentary of this great Benedictine luminary upon the Feast Day of Saint Bridget.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:53:06 PM »

From the late Cardinal Schuster's work The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal (vol. V.; trans. Arthur Levelis-Marke & W. Fairfax-Cholmeley; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1930), here is a commentary upon the Mass for the Feast of Saint Bridget.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:20:58 PM »

From the tome Carmelite Devotions and Prayers for Special Feasts of the Liturgical Year, compiled by a Carmelite Tertiary (Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1956), here is some very valuable information regarding the Brigittine Rosary mentioned by Dom Prosper Guéranger in his commentary upon the Feast Day of Saint Bridget.

Pyrrhos · « **Reply #5 on:** October 08, 2012, 01:38:07 AM »

Happy Fest Day, indeed!

Very recently, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest made a Bridgettine pilgrimage to Sweden, ending the same with a Missa cantata in front of her relics in her very own Vadstena Abbey.

The history of this abbey is quite interesting, as even the troubled times of the (post-)Reformation left the monastery hardly touched. When a Protestant bishop visited the Abbey, the nuns are reported to have plugged their ears during the sermon.
After further restrictions and the horrors of the Northern Seven Years' War, the Abbey was reformed under the then again Catholic regents, a Papal Legate had the Abbess and nuns swear the Tridentine Oath and took some boys with him to be educated as Catholic priests.

A little later, unfortunately, the Protestants rose to power again, the Abbey being dissolved. Finally? Not quite, in 1935 the Religious Sisters of the Bridgettine Order established a new convent on the same grounds.

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** October 08, 2012, 03:26:10 AM »

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** October 08, 2012, 11:17:17 PM »

From the Breviarium Sacrarum Virginum Ordinis Sanctissimi Salvatoris, vulgo Santæ Birgittæ; horas Deiparæ Virginis per ferias distributas continens opus pium et omnibus eidem Virgini devotis ob Sermones Angelicos accommodatissimum; jussu Illustrissimi et Reverendissimi Domini Episcopi Plymuthensis, Monasterii de Syon Ordinarii denuo typis impressum, (Rome, Tournai, Paris: Desclée & Socii, 1908), here is a very beautiful devotion that the spiritual daughters of St. Bridget observed in her honor every day after Vespers.

Here is a rough English translation:

O Bridget, good Mother, sweet guide and patroness, do thou offer prayers for us. Shipwrecked upon this sea, with thine healthful guidance, do thou lead us unto the rewards of life [everlasting]. O excellent [Mother] do thou vouchsafe to obtain for us of Christ the forgiveness of [our] sins. That we may be enabled to be refreshed, and amend excesses, following grace. Do thou bestow sanctity unto [our] life, grant health unto [our] body, and tranquility unto [our] times. Do thou increase true charity, grant purity of heart, strengthen us [who] languish. Do thou rule the course of our life, [and] after this life translate above [our] souls unto joys [eternal]. Where we may be enabled to contemplate God and also accompany thee in [heavenly] glory. Amen.

℣. Pray for us, blessed Mother Bridget, predilect Spouse of Christ.
℟. That He Himself may be unto us the straight path unto the celestial fatherland.

Prayer

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O Lord Jesus Christ, Who didst deign to call blessed Bridget as Thy spouse on account of the inspiration of many secrets and the singular adornment of virtues; do Thou grant, we pray, that we may be conformed unto the same [blessed Bridget] in life and manners, and with her be taken away from the allurements of the world unto the vision of the heavens. Thou Who dost live and reign unto ages of ages.
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