Saint bridgets day tomorrow?

Question

Saint bridgets day tomorrow,what youve got to do tonight is throw a piece of cloth on a bush outside the front of your house tonight and then tomorrow bring the cloth in to ensure prosperity for the year.

Answer 1

The forests, fields and rivers are changing
Under the pulse of the greatest law.
Life in secret returns to the Earth
From east and south and west and north.

Released from winter, life is renewed.
Future hopes lift the weight of the past.
Days become longer, winds are perfumed
And birdsong rises to the sky at last.

The path that leads to the future is
Unfurled by Brighid, Goddess of Spring.
The promise lies in the bud of the snowdrop
When wind's in the east and bird's on the wing.

The greatest force is the magic of change
Revealed in the bloom of the beautiful Brighid;
The greatest rhythm is felt once again
In the wild song of life that resounds through the land.

(adapted from a poem by Ezmi K Witty)
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I have heard many tales of Bride (Brigit, Brighid), one of the most widely loved and revered Goddesses of the ancient Gaelic pantheon. Bride the Beautiful is not infrequent in song and seasonal hymns, for when Her signals are seen along the grey beaches, on the sandy shores, by the meadow path, the glen track, we know that the new year is disclosed at last - that food, warmth and gladness are coming out of the south. Everywhere She is honored at this time.

It is an old tale, this association of Bride with February. It goes back further than the days of the monkish chroniclers who first attempted to hide the light of this fair Goddess in the disguise of Christian raiment. It is the tale of She to whom the women of the Gael went with offerings and prayers...Brighid of the Flame. They refer to the One whom the Druids held in honor as a torch bearer of the eternal light, a Daughter of the Morning, who held the Spring's sunrise in one hand as a little yellow flame, and in the other held the red flower of fire, without which men would be as the beasts.

Answer 2

Did you know that St. Bridget is in fact the Great Mother Goddess of Ireland? Early Christians, wanting to convert Ireland, canonized Lady Bridget because the people refused to give Her up.

Why not work with the source rather than some bastardized version of Her?

Answer 3

Ah please no offence to yourself but this is superstition and even the Irish people do not do this in Ireland,instead they still make the Cross of St,Bridget in some places in rememberance of how she converted her pagan Father by making a cross out of some reeds and preached to him of Christ crucified.

Contrary to what one member said,Bridget was never a Goddess in Ireland,she was canonized by the Catholic church as a Saint,which is not the same thing, she is one of the patron Saints along with St.Patrick and St.Columbcille.

Answer 4

Ah, Imbolc, my favorite of holidays. Yes, tomorrow at sunset i will lay my cloth and friday sunrise I will be out spying on the groundhog that lives in my backyard. It's supposed to be damned cold here so that groundhog better be bringing good news.

Answer 5

I have already hung my St. Bridget's cross on the door made.

Answer 6

pondering The Revelation (Uncovering) of St John The Divine, is possibly uncovering of Johnny regulation many concept substitute into divine; and for assessment of uncovering of JC's grace & reality is divine.

Answer 7

Well i forgot to burn the fields out in the fall so there wouldn't be any trolls living there this year...........i don't think the cloth is going to do me any good with trolls in the field this year???

Answer 8

I'll do it, I loves that old Irish Saint!

Answer 9

gee... that sounds like superstition to me...?

Answer 10

Are you rich?