On the Meaning of Desolation and Sufferings
Here, freshly translated, is a letter of lucid psychological insight, uncompromising spiritual rigour, and spiritual compassion. Mother Mectilde wrote this letter in 1665 to Mother...
So that I might begin to live in simplicity, like a child
Catherine–Mectilde de Bar was the 17th century herald of Thérèse, the Doctor of the Little Way. The passages below are taken from a conversation of...
Do it as you can and as God will permit you to do it
Jean de Bernières, a pious layman, was the most widely read spiritual author of the 17th century and an intimate friend of Mother Mectilde of...
Go and repair My House
Called to the Work of Reparation Our Lord, in every age of the Church’s life, calls souls to the work of reparation, that is, to...
And a very great silence based on charity
Then and Now Catherine–Mectilde de Bar (1614 –1698) lived in times no less troubled and troubling than our own. The life of the Church...