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daily notifications. Today we will be meditating upon it and praying with the second sorrowful

mystery, the scourging at the pillar with help from St. Bridget and her work revelations.

Begin with a little background on our author today.

Our reading will come from St. Bridget of Sweden.

St. Bridget was born in the year 1303, and she died in the year 1373. As a young girl,

somewhere between the ages of 7 and 10, she had a vision, kind of like a dream vision of the man

of sorrows of our Lord Jesus Christ with the wounds of his passion. St. Bridget would get

married and she would have eight children. One of these children would also become a saint.

And she's known as St. Catherine of Sweden. After her husband's death, St. Bridget became a third

order, Franciscan.

Here we go, Franciscans.

And she committed herself to a life of prayer, of penance, and of service.

At one point, she would found a religious order, which is known as the Bridgetines.

St. Bridgett is the co-patronist, or the co-patron saint of Europe.

And her work, Revelations is a collection of mystical experiences and insights that St. Bridget

attributes to God and her offer to us for our edification and prayer.

And the point of emphasis today is going to be always her son.

I'm going to go ahead and begin actually today's episode with a little disclaimer.

The writing from St. Bridget and our meditation is going to really take us into praying

with some of the details of the scourging of our Lord.

And if you, the listener, are particularly sensitive to that in a way which isn't going to be helpful, this may just not be an episode for you. I think of this is going to be kind of a prayerful, imaginative reflection on our Lord's passion similar to what the passion of the Christ does in film. And I understand

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