This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary. Welcome to our Rosary.

Welcome to our Rosary.

I'm Dr. Troy Henkel and I'm here in Colorado

recording with my parents.

On this the feast of St. Bridget of Sweden,

not to be confused with St. Bridget of Ireland,

whose feast is in February,

or St. Catherine of Sweden, who's Bridget's daughter.

As we shall see, St. Bridget is an interesting saint. She was both married and a nun and

a foundress of a religious community. So let's call it to mind wherever in the presence of religious community.

So let's call it to mind wherever in the presence of Almighty God

and whom we live and move and have our being.

We call upon him in the name of the Father

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

This title of this Rosary St. Bridget of Sweden.

In the Jubilee year of 2000,

Pope St. John Paul II proclaimed,

Bridget of Sweden, co-patroness of all Europe.

To become a saint, you don't have to be a monk or a nun, walled up in some cloister.

We are all called to do it right here right now where we live by belonging totally to God and living a life of deep prayer and virtue.

This is why St. Bridget is so important. Her love of our Lord's passion and of Our Lady opened in her

heart a remarkable ability to bridge, no pun intended, aspects of her life that we think are opposed. She was a mother and a wife, but

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