St. Brigid’s School for Imagination, Creativity, and Practice is a school for the soul, an intentional ministry that seeks to nurture wisdom that can help us realign with the Spirit’s movement, and find healing.
Recognizing our call to trust in the indwelling presence of the Spirit, we seek to cultivate an appreciation of spiritual imagination through practices of prayer so that we can co-create with the generative power of the Spirit and nurture transformed lives.
What would it look like to nurture an intentional community whose explicit mission centers on the transformation of souls to foster an imaginative and creative practice of faith in the world today?
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With this as our grounding, we wonder how we can nurture a deeper trust in the indwelling presence of the Spirit of Christ, the living flame at the heart of all life. Hildegard of Bingen envisioned this greening power as veriditas, the animating presence within all life. Mystics, sages, and teachers have all sought to emphasize the centrality of resting in this indwelling presence, and spiritual imagination is essential in cultivating this awareness.
Given our context, and given the call we feel from the Spirit to cultivate a ministry focused explicitly on the transformation of the soul, we feel we have an opportunity to develop an intentional formation space that connects with the seeking and searching we experience from so many in our wider community–connections that transcend rigid denominational and parochial frameworks. By investing in the development of an intentional school format, we can further nurture the spiritual growth of the community as well as create a mechanism for more intentional support and community vitality.
We are looking at the figure of St. Brigid as a key image/icon who can ground this particular ministry. St. Brigid’s focus on creativity, the arts, healing, the home, and transformation (the flame, the holy well, the forge, the hearth, poetry, creative arts, etc.) offers a very meaningful focal point around which we can develop a ministry of imagination, creativity, and practice. By looking at St. Brigid, we find a particular visionary whose own life and witness transcends rigid boundaries to nurture spaces of hope. Her life and work offers a focal point that nurtures our own explicit focus on the transformation of the soul.
Also, St. Brigid is a bridge figure, which is vitally important in our world today–bridging particular denominations as well as broader spiritual traditions. She sought to nurture the living flame at the heart of all life, and she continues to be an inspiration for countless souls who feel drawn to deepening their spiritual practice to foster healing in a struggling world.
St. Brigid’s School is a school for the soul, an intentional ministry that seeks to nurture wisdom that can help us realign with the Spirit’s movement, and find healing.