Welcome to the Community of St. Bridget
an inclusive Catholic community!
We are a lay led Roman Catholic eucharistic community served by Roman Catholic women priests.
The Community of St. Bridget, an inclusive Catholic community
shares the same location as the Brecksville United Church of Christ
23 Public Square, Brecksville, Ohio 44141
We are easily accessible from I-77 near the intersection of SR 21 and SR 82.
Please join in our joy and come celebrate with us!
Inspired by the words of Pope Francis,
we are a community that builds bridges, NOT walls.
Join us for Weekly Mass * Subscribe to our Email Newsletter
Visit us on Facebook * Contact us * Donate
The Community of St. Bridget, an inclusive Catholic community
shares the same location as the Brecksville United Church of Christ
23 Public Square, Brecksville, Ohio 44141
We are easily accessible from I-77 near the intersection of SR 21 and SR 82.
Please join in our joy and come celebrate with us!
Inspired by the words of Pope Francis,
we are a community that builds bridges, NOT walls.
Join us for Weekly Mass * Subscribe to our Email Newsletter
Visit us on Facebook * Contact us * Donate
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;
it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Second Inaugural Address
Wednesday, January 20, 1937
News updates:
Women’s Ordination Conference demands Equal Voting Rights at Synod of Bishops
ARCWP Fall Newsletter LEADING now available.
Women priests in Brecksville offer alternative to traditional Roman Catholic Church
Catholic Women Preach homily for February 17th - Listen now
View archive of prior news updates
Women’s Ordination Conference demands Equal Voting Rights at Synod of Bishops
ARCWP Fall Newsletter LEADING now available.
Women priests in Brecksville offer alternative to traditional Roman Catholic Church
Catholic Women Preach homily for February 17th - Listen now
View archive of prior news updates
Press releases:
From: The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
Catholic Women Priests Offer Hope During the Sexual Abuse Crisis
February 6, 2019
From: The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
Catholic Women Priests Offer Hope During the Sexual Abuse Crisis
February 6, 2019
As Pope Francis engages this February 21-24, 2019 in dealing with the sexual abuse crisis in the Church, we women priests continue to offer a renewed priestly ministry within a new structure of inclusive communities and a new way of being Church.
All are welcome to attend our worshiping communities and to receive Communion. Our new model of ministry can serve as a solution in dealing with the prevention of future sexual abuses. Women priests offer Roman Catholic worshiping communities that are led by the People of God.
We have over 15 years of experience offering a new kind of priesthood that is Roman Catholic, egalitarian, inclusive, evolving, and social justice driven. Our women-priest experiences offer meaningful inclusive liturgies (Masses) in small grassroots communities.
In addition, we preside at baptisms, weddings, and funeral ceremonies. We are engaged in raising social consciousness. We work with all those disenfranchised from the Roman Catholic Church, offering them faith communities, advocacy and spiritual direction.
To put it very simply, the sexual abuses that have taken place in the Roman Catholic Church and are still taking place would never have occurred to the degree they have if women had been involved in priestly ministry and equal leadership in the Church. It is long overdue that the male leadership of the Church acknowledge our wisdom as women priests who are already serving the People of God, and ask for our help to solve the mess into which they have gotten themselves.
All are welcome to attend our worshiping communities and to receive Communion. Our new model of ministry can serve as a solution in dealing with the prevention of future sexual abuses. Women priests offer Roman Catholic worshiping communities that are led by the People of God.
We have over 15 years of experience offering a new kind of priesthood that is Roman Catholic, egalitarian, inclusive, evolving, and social justice driven. Our women-priest experiences offer meaningful inclusive liturgies (Masses) in small grassroots communities.
In addition, we preside at baptisms, weddings, and funeral ceremonies. We are engaged in raising social consciousness. We work with all those disenfranchised from the Roman Catholic Church, offering them faith communities, advocacy and spiritual direction.
To put it very simply, the sexual abuses that have taken place in the Roman Catholic Church and are still taking place would never have occurred to the degree they have if women had been involved in priestly ministry and equal leadership in the Church. It is long overdue that the male leadership of the Church acknowledge our wisdom as women priests who are already serving the People of God, and ask for our help to solve the mess into which they have gotten themselves.
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Scripture readings
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time February 23rd, 24th 2019 First Reading: 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 Psalm 103 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 Gospel: Luke 6:27-38 |
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Homily for the Community of St. Bridget
Homily for the Second Sunday in Advent/Immaculate Conception
December 8th, 2018
Homily for the Second Sunday in Advent/Immaculate Conception
December 8th, 2018
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There is much written and proclaimed about the season of Advent. We often are directed to reflect on spiritually birthing anew Jesus for our time, and on his eternal companionship. And this, of course, is all good. However, by directing our minds to Jesus during this time, we totally miss the point that the Advent Season is really about Mary, the Mother of Jesus. It is about her pregnancy and carrying and waiting for her child to be born. It is about her body cradling and protecting the baby that is growing and maturing in her womb. It is about waiting for the birth of this child under very rough circumstances. It’s about her willingness to do this. And we wait with her, anticipating this new life for ourselves, as well as its impact on our world. So, today, within this Advent Season, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. And so, I ask, quite sincerely and honestly: Why is it that the men of the church come up with celebrations for Mary, the Mother of Jesus, without consulting women? read full homily |
Homily for Holy Spirit Catholic Community
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 17th, 2019
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 17th, 2019
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God has been speaking to us humans since the beginning of time, and we still have trouble trusting the message. Jeremiah, in today’s first reading, tells us about what happens when we trust God. People who trust God, he says, go through a drought as if they had tapped into their own basic source-- like a root in the water-- that allows them to survive without distress. If what really happens in life. When we trust in human things, and they fail, then we get distressed, disappointed, dejected. If we trust in God, we see it differently. Everything changes. read full homily |
This week's quote
We have no idea the effect we actually have on one another.
~John O'Donohue
We have no idea the effect we actually have on one another.
~John O'Donohue
Frequently Asked Questions
A reader asks: If women priests are trying to change the way the Roman Catholic Church operates, why do you ordain bishops? Are you not perpetuating hierarchy, only a newer version, one that suits you?
Our answers to this and other questions HERE
A reader asks: If women priests are trying to change the way the Roman Catholic Church operates, why do you ordain bishops? Are you not perpetuating hierarchy, only a newer version, one that suits you?
Our answers to this and other questions HERE
