My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His: Meditations on Brideship for Women Religious

Brideship, writes Mother Mary Francis, p.c.c., is “not a popular word” in the context of the consecrated life—thanks to the saccharine, pseudo-mystical treatment it has often received in the past. Yet this treatment and the adverse reactions to it flow from a lamentable misunderstanding of Divine Revelation. In the Church, as Pope St. John Paul II describes in Vita consecrata, vowed women religious are “a special eschatological image of the Heavenly Bride and of the life to come.” Identifying the four elements of brideship as presence, focus, service, and surrender, and their roots in Scripture and manifestation in religious life, Mother Mary Francis echoes these profound words: “We are the spouses of Christ. We are covenanted people called to do this for Christ and his Church.” Describing with poignant and heartfelt conviction the beauty of brideship in the covenant of religious profession, My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His is a beautiful treatment of the wondrous height, depth, and breadth of God’s love for the soul he chooses as his own.
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Author/Artist:Francis P.C.C., Mother Mary
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