Today the children and I celebrated the feast day of
St. Brigid of Kildare.
The story as I remember it is one of a very beautiful girl "owned by" her wealthy father, a pagan. After Brigid continually gave away his monetary possessions he sold her into slavery rather than kill her. A kind king purchased her, but not for himself and instead delivered her into freedom. St Brigid often prayed to the Lord asking Him to make her unattractive so her many suitors would depart. The good Lord knows our hearts desires and indeed she became very unattractive. However, upon her final profession, her beauty was restored. She spent the rest of her life doing great works for others.
At some point I'd like to add
Brigid's Cloak
and
The Life of Saint Brigid: Abbess of Kildare
to our home library. For now, we enjoyed the story together from our St. Joseph's Picture Books collections. The girls wrote a paragraph on the back of their coloring pictures we printed from
Charlotte over at Waltzing Matilda. Thank you
Charlotte! We've been printing your coloring pages for a long time now and we always love them.
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| Maria's picture |
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| Anna's picture |
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| Anna & Maria with their St. Brigid pictures and potato perogies. |
While we were honoring the patroness of Ireland we thought of my grandmother, Sally and added an Irish potato to the dinner menu since we ran out of time and didn't get to make the Irish soda bread!
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| Before... |
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| After...Joseph didn't like the middle! |
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| Katherine waiting patiently for perogies. |
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