Category: Mectilde de Bar

Some sayings of Mother Mectilde

Nothing so charms God as does a person who is humble. He rushes into this soul with the same speed as lightening before thunder or...

Yet ever thou art at my side

In 1667, Mother Mectilde writes again to Mother Saint–François–de–Paule Charbonnier, who has fallen prey to the torment of scrupulosity. This hard–hitting letter of direction is...

The divine labourer who works in you

Here is more of Mother Mectilde’s letter to Mother Saint–François–de–Paule Charbonnier. Her doctrine is austere, but it is not burdensome. I have always sensed spiritual...

The state in which you find yourself is of God

Here is another excerpt from the letter that Mother Mectilde wrote in 1665 to the same Mother Saint–François–de–Paule Charbonnier. This is spiritual direction of the...