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LOVE OF GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOR.-St. Brigid, patroness of the Irish, who esteemed her as a second Mary, was born in the year of our Lord 453, and from an early period of her life devoted herself to the service of God. The sanctity of this consecrated maiden has been justly celebrated by the Venerable Bede and other great writers, who described her as having been constantly occupied in holy contemplation or the active exercise of charitable works. She founded the far-famed monastery of Kildare, where she lived as abbess, and died in the year 523, after having glorified God for long years by the many virtues and miracles recorded in her history. With the example of this holy virgin before them, the Irish youth of both sexes made rapid progress in the acquisition of all those eminent characteristics which secured for them, through many ages, the designation of children of the Saints.

Moral Reflection: -Let us always bear in mind that, no matter what our state of life may be, we can sanctify ourselves by communing with God, and contributing to our neighbour's edification. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and thy neighbour as thyself."  Pictorial half hours with the saints by Rev. Fr. Auguste François Lecanu LeCanu 1865

Shew forth in their lives the form of all perfection and cover them with the robe of holiness. Let them love justice and hate iniquity. Let their prayer be like incense in the sight of heaven. Let their doctrine be saving and salutary to the people, and let the odor of their lives be the delight of the Church of God."  Source: Ecclesiastical Meditations, page 254