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.
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Inspired by the words of Pope Francis,
we are a community that builds bridges, NOT walls.
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​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

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News updates:
ARCWP  Winter 2020 Newsletter LEADING now available.
Catholic Women Preach: current homily
News archive.

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Press release:

Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
Responds to Pope Francis’ Letter , “Beloved Amazon”
February 13, 2020

ARCWP Responds to Pope Francis’ Letter , “Beloved Amazon”, Embrace Ordination of Women in Non-Clerical, Circular Model to Achieve the Full Equality of Women in a Global Church!

Pope Francis’ recent letter, Querida Amazonia (“Beloved Amazon”) fails to make the connections between destruction of the earth, poverty and women’s inequality in the Church. We cannot ignore that women’s equal status in sacramental ministry and decision-making in the Church is essential for the voice of God to rise up for justice on our earth now.

While Pope Francis makes the connection between ordination and clericalism, though well-meaning, he is operating out of a male, patriarchal model that diminishes women.

The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests is part of a worldwide movement that ordains women to foster an inclusive church of equals in a non-clerical model of priestly ministry as a prophetic act of justice. We welcome all to the Eucharistic table including LGBTQI and divorced, and are living out a healthy liberated circular model of the sensus fidelium, the Spirit moving through the people of God.

With Mary Magdalene at the tomb, we are Easter Morning people proclaiming the Good News of the Gospel to a world immersed in the heavy chains of patriarchal domination of sexism, capitalism, militarism, and the degradation of our Holy Mother Earth. Embracing the ordination of women in a non-clerical circular model to achieve the full equality of women in a global Church is the only way forward.

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Letter to the editor:

Published in the National Catholic Reporter, Feb 7-20, 2020 edition:

​CONFRONTING CAUSES

While he was stating the causes of clericalism, Fr. Peter Daly surprises me by naming original sin (i.e., "fallen nature") as an article of our faith and a contributing cause (NCR, Jan. 10-23, 2020). 

As one of ten children and mother of seven, I totally reject the idea that a child is born in a "fallen" state.  It is their later interactions with people and the world that introduce a child to sin, not through the creative act.  Our Creator fashioned each of us as an "original blessing."

Serious scripture scholars have stated numerous times that the story from Genesis of how sin entered the world is a fable.  Assigning blame to the first family of Genesis just doesn't cut it.  This story is not t be taken literally.

So let's continue to discuss the sin of "clericalism" without assigning one of its causes to an "article of faith" based on a fictional narrative.  Yes, there is evil in our world.  And each person in this world plays a part in introducing children to sin both personally and through social policies, of which the ongoing "fallen nature" of clericalism is certainly included.

Mary Eileen Collingwood
Boston Heights, OH

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Scripture readings: 
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday, February 22 , 2020, 5 pm.

Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18
Psalm 103
1 Corinthians 3: 16-23
Matthew 5: 38-48

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Homily for the Community of St. Bridget
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020
Saturday, February 15, 2020

There is a great little story that took place in 1914.  It was a short excerpt from a young, Catholic woman’s life in those times.  She was 18 years old and found herself the envy of every girl in town as she went on an exciting car ride with four boys as they visited a soda shop and rode around town.  That feeling lasted until they arrived at her house and found her father standing like a magistrate on the front porch.

In those days, the rules of the house were followed very closely.  However, the father never dreamed he’d find his daughter riding around town with four Protestant boys for the whole city to see.  He just hadn’t a rule for what he witnessed.​  continue reading

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