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.
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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 Summer 2019 Newsletter LEADING now available.
Catholic Women Preach homily for August 4th listen now.
Shanon Marie Sterringer was ordained a priest July 10th, 2019
News archive.

​​Shanon Marie Sterringer was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Women Priest Movement on Saturday, August 3, 2019, in Linz, Austria.  The ordaining bishops were Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger and Mary Eileen Collingwood.  Her diaconate ordination took place in Boston Hts., Ohio on July 10, 2019. She is the Founder and Director of the Hildegard Haus (formerly the Hildegarden) and the developing Community of St. Hildegard in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, and a member of the presiding team at the Community of St. Bridget in Brecksville, Ohio.  Continue reading

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Scripture readings: 
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 17th, 18th 2019

First Reading:  Jeremiah 38: 4-6, 8-10
Psalm: 40
Second Reading:  Hebrews 12: 1-4
Gospel:  Luke 12: 49-53

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Homily for Holy Spirit Catholic Community
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 11th, 2019

Today’s scriptures tell us that we are God’s chosen people, 
people who trust, who give to others, 
who treat others well even when we’re not being watched. 
We are chosen to be faithful servants. 
That is true, 
but too often these readings have been taken, in a literal way, 
to mean that other people in other religions 
are not also God’s chosen people. 
That idea—that my religion is the one true religion, and no other--
has led otherwise good people to violence and murder. 
Tainted by desire for political gain, our institutional church, 
in the Inquisition and the Crusades, for example, 
tortured and killed. 
And we’re not the only ones to ignore the truth 
that all people are God’s chosen people. 
It’s still happening. 
Conflict over religion makes the headlines every day. ​
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