INSIDE: Simple yet meaningful ways to celebrate the feast of St. Brigid in the Catholic home.
What’s not to love about celebrating the feast of St. Brigid when it involves homemade butter making and fresh bread? Of course, a few good stories about the saint and a coloring page or two completes the day!
Reading List for the Feast of St. Brigid
- St. Brigid and the Cows, Betz
- Brigid’s Cloak: An Irish Story, Milligan
- Brigid and the Butter, Love
- The Life of Saint Brigid: Abbess of Kildare, Meyer
- Saint Brigid, from Illustrated Lives of the Saints for Catholic Children, Lord
- Saint Brigid, from Saints: Lives and Illuminations, Sanderson
- Saint Brigid and the Cows, from Brother Wolf, Sister Sparrow, Kimmel
- Saint Brigid, from Saints for Girls, Rourke
from the February Liturgical Reading List
Food for the Feast of St. Brigid’s
- Homemade Butter
- Amazingly Easy Irish Soda Bread
- Irish Stew
You could prepare a complete Irish meal (Irish stew anyone?), but after our St. John Bosco feast the night before, we opted for a simple snack of homemade bread and homemade butter.
Shaking up your own butter is perfect for this feast day.
The master heard about Brigid’s kindness to the poor. He said to his wife, “Let us go to the dairy and make sure Brigid does not give away too much of our food.”
They took a big basket and went to find Brigid. They told her they had come for the butter. While Brigid put the butter in the basket, she asked God to let there be enough for the master. When she gave the basket to him, it was full.
The master knew then that God was with Brigid.”
from St. Brigid, from Saints for Girls
St. Brigid’s generosity would make it a perfect day to give away some delicious butter and bread to friends or share with someone you know is in need.
St. Brigid’s Homemade Butter Recipe
- 1 C. whipping cream
Place 1 cup of cold whipping cream in a 2-4 cup mason jar. Shake for approximately 20 minutes until butter is formed. (You will know it is done when the whey separates from the butter.)
St. Brigid Feast Day Ideas from Around the Catholic Web
St. Brigid Coloring Page (Kennedy Adventures)
St. Brigid Coloring Page (Maltzing Matilda)
Make St. Brigid’s Cross
Free pdf sharing stories about St. Brigid
Prayers, hymns, and blessings from the Brigidine Sisters
” Merciful God, origin and reward of all charity, you called Saint Brigid to teach the new commandment of love through her life of hospitality and her care of the needy; give to your people, by her intercession, a generous spirit, so that, with hearts made pure, we may show your love to all.”
–from the collect for the feast of St. Brigid
St. Brigid, pray for us!
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