Category: Mectildian Jubilee Year 1614–2014

I continue today my translation of Mother Mectilde’s text on true devotion to the Blessed Virgin.  She wrote this text sometime during her Benedictine noviciate...

Your Life is Hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3) The Annonciades, having been obliged to flee their monastery in Bruyères, found a compassionate welcome...

The Preferred Offering When the holy Mother of God and Saint Joseph go to the temple for her purification and to present the Child Jesus,...

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,...

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,...

  A Girl Grieved by Offenses against God In 1629 Catherine de Bar is going on fifteen years of age. With the Thirty Years War...

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....

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...

Here is the conclusion of Mother Mectilde’s Epiphany conference of 1694. Mother Mectilde wisely counsels against seeking extraordinary sensible manifestations of God’s will, subject to...

For Catherine Mectilde de Bar, the adoration of Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament is not an occasional devotion; it is, rather, the direction...

The Epiphany Conference 1694 Some years ago, I translated  one of Mother Mectilde de Bar’s most important conferences; she gave it on the vigil of...

I have translated some helpful excerpts from Catherine Mectilde de Bar’s correspondence with her dear friend and sometime spiritual director, the saintly layman Jean de...

As the beginning of the Mectildian Jubilee Year (1614–2014) draws near, I decided to translate these passages from a confidential text of Mother Mectilde written...