Each Thursday the CMH Board and friends pray between 7.00 and 8.00 am for the Ministry of Healing, and we invite you to join us in prayer…….
Church’s Ministry of Healing- The Mount
Hour of Prayer for our Ministry-Thursday, 6th February, 2025
Last Saturday, 1st February, was St Brigid’s Day, one of the three Irish Patron Saints with St Patrick and St Colmcille. As we reflect on our own lives and that of our ministry, we can reflect on the life of Brigid and her values of compassion, charity, and creativity in our daily lives and actions.
As a child, Brigid gave away her mother’s entire store of butter, which was then replenished in answer to her prayers.
Her charitable nature led her to donate her father’s belongings to anyone who asked. He planned to sell her and made representation to the King of Leinster, but the King recognized her holiness and convinced him to grant his daughter her freedom.
As Brigid grew older, she performed many miracles, including healing and feeding the poor. Brigid is celebrated for her generosity to the poor. In her case, many of the miracles associated with her relate to healing and often highlight her compassion for the sick and needy. Her prayers were said to still the wind and the rain.
Brigid is also said to have miraculously changed water into beer for a leper colony which provided enough beer for 18 churches from a single barrel.
Another profound legend tells the story of Dara, a blind nun for whom Brigid prayed for the restoration of her eyesight. When the miracle was granted, Dara realized that the clarity of sight blurred God in the eye of the soul, whereupon she asked Brigid to return her to the beauty of darkness.
In early adulthood, Brigid founded a monastic community at Kildare, which became one of Ireland’s most important Christian centres. The monastery was unique for its time, as it housed both monks and nuns in separate establishments under Brigid’s leadership.
Her friendship with Saint Patrick is noted in the Book of Armagh: Patrick and Brigid were known as the pillars of the Irish people at this time and through their mutual love of charity, Christ performed many good works. The city of Armagh had several associations with St Brigid. In the twelfth century, the city had two crosses dedicated to her.
Following her death in 525, she was entombed with Patrick but in 1185, John De Courcy had their remains reburied in Down Cathedral.
Brigid’s legacy speaks to us today. Let us be generous to others with our time, actions, belongings and prayers. AMEN.
Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer
Coordinator Canon Raymond Fox
http://www.contemplative-prayer.org.uk/
Contemplative prayer seeks tranquility, quietness, to listen for God meets in 162, Wednesdays, 10.30am on the following dates;
19th February
19th March
16th April
21st May
18th June
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