I prayed these prayers last year for a full year. However I am not sure if they are approved by the church. Can anyone inform me if they are correct to be praying and are the 15 promises correct ??.
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The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget (aka the 15 O’s) are attributed to St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373), the foundress of the Brigittines. St. Bridget, however, did not write them. They were composed some time after her death, most likely in the 15th century by English Brigittines. Numerous editions of these prayers beloved by many have appeared over the centuries with considerable variation in the texts and even in the order of the prayers. The prayers were quite popular during the late Middle Ages and were a frequent item in many a Medieval prayer book.
Sometime after their composition a list of promises became attached to these prayers. Over the centuries these promises have varied in number, but 21 promises is the most common form these days. These promises were not given to St. Bridget nor do they have any ecclesiastical standing whatsoever. Some recent publications of the promises have made various claims about past popes approving their publication, however, such claims are quite false. No authentic records of such approvals of the promises themselves exist.
Since the promises
have no merit to them (and at worst, border on superstitious), The Congregation of the Holy Office had prohibited their publication in 1954:
Acts of the Holy See
Congregation of the Holy Office
Warning
In some places, a certain little work has been disseminated called the “
Secret of Happiness: 15 Prayers Revealed by the Lord to St. Bridget in the Church of St. Paul at Rome”, published at Nice and various other places in several languages.
Since it is asserted in this pamphlet that God made to St. Bridget certain promises, whose supernatural origin in no way stands up, let local ordinaries take care not to grant permission for publishing or reprinting pamphlets or other writings which contain these aforementioned promises.
Given at Rome, from the offices of the Holy Office, 28 January 1954
Marius Crovini, Notary of the Supreme Holy Congregation of the Holy Office
As far as I know though, there is no prohibition on the prayers themselves – only on the “promises”.
