I found the 'Collect' of this morning's commemorative Mass of St Bakitha very disturbing and in fact quite wrong! The opening lines of the prayer read:
O God, who led Saint Josephine Bakhita from abject slavery to the dignity of being your daughter and a bride of Christ, grant we pray, that by her example, we may....
It sounds as if she had to get out of slavery to become a child of God!! That's atrocious! No state of our life or circumstances in our living, and most certainly not of our own making, can prevent us from being a child of God. At times our own choices and decisions strain our relationship with God but never does one have to become something in life in order to then become a child of God. Being a child of God is not a reward, it is a grace - freely given and part of our nature.
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