I lost myself in Him
Catherine de Bar’s Mysterious Prophetic Dream Some time after her religious profession in 1633, and before the destruction of the monastery of Bruyères in 1635,...
Led on by God’s Providence
In Doubt Go to Mary Catherine de Bar, now Sister Saint John the Evangelist, novice in the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annonciade,...
Vocation, Depression, Crisis, and Grace Through Mary
A Girl Grieved by Offenses against God In 1629 Catherine de Bar is going on fifteen years of age. With the Thirty Years War...
Far better that I should think on Him
As time permits, all during this Mectildian Jubilee Year (1614–2014), I shall be posting on the life and writings of Mother Catherine Mectilde de Bar....
The Effects of One’s First Holy Communion
Mother Mectilde on One’s First Holy Communion Catherine de Bar was nine years old when she received Holy Communion for the first time. She had...