Lá Féile Naomh Bríde

 February the first:  St Brigid's Day.  She is co-patroness of Ireland and her feast day is my wife's second onomastico and my grandmother's birthday

A prior post on St Brigid can be found by clicking here.

A pair of collects from the Daily Office of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham:

Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that the prayers of Thy holy Abbess, blessed Brigid, may commend us unto Thee:  that we, who have no power of ourselves to help ourselves, may by her advocacy find favour in Thy sight; through Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

O God, who to the blessed Abbess Brigid gavest grace to imitate Christ in His poverty, and with humble heart to follow Him to the end:  grant that all who enter the path of Gospel perfection may neither look back nor go astray from the way; but hastening to Thee without stumbling, may attain the crown of eternal life whereunto Thou dost call them;  through Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.  Amen.