The Wisdom of Brigid ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Wisdom of Brigid ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Brigid prevailed powerfully with the heathen because she was as human as the heathen. That is to say, she never ignored those roots of our being that are common to all humanity. One of the secrets of Patrick’s outstanding success as a missionary was his masterly solution of that evangelizing difficulty called the “adaptation” problem. Like St. Paul, he became “all things to all men for the sake of Christ.” Everything in the native culture that c…