Reflection from your Co-Pastors - Thursday, Nov 4, 2021
Please welcome, newly ordained, Mother Alice Bradley to Mary of Magdala, ECC.
On Sunday we will welcome one of our Rocky Mountain Region’s newly ordained priests as presider, Mother Alice Bradley. What a gift for us! May she bestow her shining eyes on us along with her sacred blessing! And may we bless her on her journey of proclaiming the Good News of Jesus our Christ.
Mother Alice Bradley is a Pastoral Associate at Church of the Beloved in Northglenn. She was a deacon with then Mother, now Bishop, Kae Madden and remains serving that community. Mother Alice is Irish through and through and wears upon her Alb a blue, hand-shown, heart-shaped pocket. In that pocket is a piece of her Baptismal dress. The blessings upon that dress span generations of women in her family. Alice’s daughter wore this dress and was held by Alice, just as Alice was dressed and held by her mother in that dress. The loving hands of Alice’s grandmother and great-grandmother made the dress, and they cut the fabric with Alice’s great-great grandmother’s scissors. Such is the strength of belief in the power of Baptism into Jesus our Christ. The sacred river of the Divine Feminine runs long and deep in Mother Alice’s woman-lineage.
Let’s pray the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-35) as a blessing for Mother Alice in these three days until she brings us together at Holy Mass on Sunday:
“Mary said:
‘My soul proclaims your greatness, O God,
and my spirit rejoices in you, my Savior.
For you have looked with favor
upon your lowly servant, and from this day forward
all generations will call me blessed.
For you, the Almighty, have done great things for me,
and holy is your Name.
Your mercy reaches from age to age
for those who fear you.
You have shown strength with your arm;
you have scattered the proud in their conceit;
you have deposed the mighty from their thrones
and raised the lowly to high places.
You have filled the hungry with good things,
while you have sent the rich away empty.
You have come to the aid of Israel your servant,
mindful of your mercy –
the promise you made to our ancestors –
to Sarah and Abraham
and their descendants forever.’ “
Amen.
From The Inclusive Bible
