Category: Mectilde de Bar

In the School of the Host

28 May 2016

Let all the hard and rugged paths by which we walk towards God be set before him. (Rule of Saint Benedict, Chapter LVIII. Of the...

Love and Confidence in the Heart of Mary

8 February 2016

For today’s feast of the Most Pure Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I offer this translation of a text of Mother Mectilde de Bar....

Trials, Humiliation, and Reparation

4 February 2016

Humiliation Mother Mectilde de Bar was fond of repeating to her daughters that, “a victim of the Holy Sacrament [that is, one entirely offered and...

The secret and admirable way of silence

21 January 2016

In this passage from a letter of 1678 addressed to a Religious of the Monastery of Toul, Mother Mectilde shows herself a teacher of interior...

Fear nothing

20 January 2016

Mother Mectilde de Bar to the Community of Toul, 1678 (Part II) If you have something hidden deep down inside you, God knows it, and...

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