Listen to St. Brigid

We all need a soul friend

The story goes that a young novice asked Brigid, the renowned abbess of the monastery of Kildare, Ireland, for advice. She countered by asking him if he had an anamchara — a soul friend. When the youth admitted that he did not, the abbess admonished him to find a suitable spiritual companion before doing anything else, for “Anyone without a soul friend …