{"id":24812,"date":"2009-07-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-bridget-of-sweden\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T11:00:00","slug":"saint-bridget-of-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-bridget-of-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Bridget of Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Bridget%20of%20Sweden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Bridget of Sweden.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St Bridget of Sweden-thumb-250x353.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"353\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><i>Lord, our God, you revealed the secrets of heaven to Saint Bridget as she meditated on your Son&#8217;s Passion. Grant that we your servants may find great joy when your glory is revealed.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;In Christ&#8217;s death, I have died now;<\/p>\n<div>In Christ I live anew.<\/div>\n<div>With faith in God&#8217;s Son, Jesus,<\/div>\n<div>That keeps me ever true,<\/div>\n<div>I know the love he&#8217;s shown me,<\/div>\n<div>That washed my sin away.<\/div>\n<div>His cross, which daily guides me<\/div>\n<div>Informs me as I pray.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thus Bridget, monarch, mother,<\/div>\n<div>Good spouse and Christian wise,<\/div>\n<div>Lived Jesus&#8217; sacred Passion<\/div>\n<div>And, e&#8217;er before His eyes<\/div>\n<div>She loved the poor and lowly,<\/div>\n<div>Gave all her store away,<\/div>\n<div>Called men and women to her<\/div>\n<div>To live the Gospel way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Give glory to the Father,<\/div>\n<div>Whose loving plan ordained<\/div>\n<div>That we should each be bought back<\/div>\n<div>From sin and sorrow&#8217;s shame!<\/div>\n<div>Give glory to Christ Jesus,<\/div>\n<div>Whose death has set us free!<\/div>\n<div>Give glory to the Spirit;<\/div>\n<div>To God, the One-in-Three.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>James Michael Thompson<\/div>\n<div>76.76.D; suggested tune: O Sacred Head Surrounded<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, our God, you revealed the secrets of heaven to Saint Bridget as she meditated on your Son&#8217;s Passion. Grant that we your servants may find great joy when your glory is revealed. &#8220;In Christ&#8217;s death, I have died now; In Christ I live anew. With faith in God&#8217;s Son, Jesus, That keeps me ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-bridget-of-sweden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Bridget of Sweden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}