Saint Bridget of Sweden was one of the most privileged mystics in the history of the Church. Born to a wealthy family, she was given in marriage to a pious and good-hearted nobleman, with whom she raised eight children, including the future Saint Catherine of Sweden. When her husband died, Bridget founded an order of nuns, the Order of the Most Holy Savior, more commonly called the Bridgettines. She also gave to the Church the Brigittine Rosary, a devotion of 63 Hail Mary's to honor the 63 years Our Lady lived on earth. It's construction inspired the Dominicans to alter their rosary to improve it's meditations. She labored until her death to spread her order and boost morality and devotion in the decadent 14th-century Church. She also labored to bring the papacy back to Rome from Avignon. In all her efforts, she was wise, charitable, and outstanding in sanctity.
Devout from a young age, Saint Bridget also received numerous visions of Our Lord and Our Lady, including intimate details of Our Lady's early life, the Holy Family in Nazareth, and the Passion, as well as prayers the famous 15 Prayers attributed to her, popular devotions in the late Middle Ages and our own era. The Magnificent Prayers of Saint Bridget of Sweden collects these prayers and presents them for the modern devotee.
Do not miss these stirring and vivid prayers from one of the greatest foundresses and mystics of the Church's history. Imbued throughout St. Bridget's life, and thus these prayers of hers, is the undeniable spirit of piety, devotion, and saintliness that characterized her earthly life—and by which she merited to become privy to sublime mysteries. Let, then, her insights penetrate you through the recitation of these meditative orations.
Tan Books did not include the promises made by Our Lord for reciting them due to some Vatican controversies, but we list them here for your inspiration:
Our Lord made the following promises to anyone who recited the 15 St. Bridget Prayers for a whole year:
1 I will deliver 15 souls of his lineage from Purgatory.
2 15 souls of his lineage will be confirmed and preserved in grace.
3 15 sinners of his lineage will be converted.
4 Whoever recites these Prayers will attain in the first degree of perfection.
5 15 days before his death I will give him My Precious Body in order that he may escape eternal starvation; I will give him My Precious Blood to drink lest he thirst eternally.
6 15 days before his death he will feel a deep contrition for all his sins and will have a perfect knowledge of them.
7 I will place before him the sign of My Victorious Cross for his help and defense against the attacks of his enemies.
8 Before his death I shall come with My Dearest Beloved Mother.
9 I shall graciously receive his soul, and will lead it into eternal joys.
10 And having led it there I shall give him a special draught from the fountain of My Deity, something I will not for those who have not recited My Prayers.
11 Let it be known that whoever may have been living in the state of mortal sin for 30 years, but who will recite devoutly, or have the intention to recite these Prayers, the Lord will forgive him all his sins.
12 I shall protect him from strong temptations.
13 I shall preserve and guard his 5 senses.
14 I shall preserve him from a sudden death.
15 His soul will be delivered from eternal death.
16 He will obtain all he asks for from God and the Blessed Virgin.
17 If he has lived all his life doing his own will and he is to die the next day, his life will be prolonged.
18 Every time one recites these Prayers he gains 100 days indulgence.
19 He is assured of being joined to the supreme Choir of Angels.
20 Whoever teaches these Prayers to another, will have continuous joy and merit which will endure eternally.
21 There where these prayer are being said or will be said in the future God is present with His grace.
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