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Saint Bridgid, pray for us!
“Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Mark 10:4
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Volume 3, Issue 5
A Ministry of the
Orthodox Christian Network
Take your medicine!
Did you hear the Gospel today? It’s the story of the two men
who went into the temple to pray.
One bragged to God about all that he
did. The other looked down at the
ground. He asked God to forgive him.
He asked God to have mercy on him.
We have a great saint in our church who
The proud man and the humble man died only about 35 years ago. His name is
Saint Justin, and he tells us something important about being proud and
about being humble.
Saint Justin tells us that everything we do wrong comes from being too
proud. Even good things we do can turn bad when we are proud about
them! We can be proud of giving to the poor. We can be proud of being
nice to people. We can even be proud of being humble! We show off and
think we’re great because we are nice or generous or humble. Pride causes
all these good things to turn into wrong things.
The Children’s Word is a weekly bulletin for Orthodox Christian young people. Copyright 2015 Alexandra Houck.
But what should we do? Saint Justin says that being humble is the answer.
It’s the only medicine for our pride. So take your medicine! Be humble.
We can ask God to forgive us. We can ask God to have mercy on us. We
can ask God to keep loving us even though we make mistakes.
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ANOTHER IRISH SAINT
Do you know how
the humble tax collector prayed to
God? The Gospel
tells us today.
It won’t be long before everybody will be talking about
Saint Patrick, Ireland, and
green shamrocks. But today we
Help the man find
the temple. If you go
the right way, you’ll
see the words he
prayed!
celebrate the feastday of another great
saint of Ireland, Saint Bridgid.
________ ______
____________ ____
_____ ____
______________!
Answer: God, be merciful to me a sinner!
What’s in an icon?
Do you see the special
cross that Saint Bridgid is
holding in this icon (and
the one on page 3)?
It is Saint Bridgid’s cross! It is
like the one she carried, and
it is made out of straw.
SAINT BRIDGID
Nowadays, most people in Ireland are
Christian, but Saint Bridgid lived long
ago, when not many people knew about
our one, true God! Lots of people there
worshipped trees and other things in nature. Bridgid’s father was a pagan, too. He named his daughter after
the goddess of fire. He wanted her to grow up worshipping those
things, too. But Bridgid had other ideas! Even when she was little,
Bridgid wanted to follow Christ.
Bridgid tried to help people whenever she could. She helped the poor,
and her father was not too happy when she would give away the family’s milk and flour to poor people who needed it. Finally, he let her
become a nun. Then later, when she was older, Bridgid started another monastery in a place in Ireland called Kildare. It was very, very
popular and important. Many people became Christian monks and
nuns because of this great saint, Saint Bridgid.
We celebrate Saint Bridgid today, Sunday, February 1st.