The Last Breath of Saint Benedict
Saint Benedict’s Eucharistic Death Today, as on almost Thursdays of the year, we are celebrating the Office of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The Eucharistic significance...
La Madre and Mother Mectilde
Mother Mectilde Compared to Saint Teresa Mother Mectilde de Bar has frequently been referred in the archives of this blog as “the Teresa of the...
Dies Natalis of Blessed Anne of Jesus
Blessed Anne of Jesus and Mother Mectilde On the fourth of March, 1621, Blessed Anne of Jesus, the hand-picked disciple of St Teresa through whom...
On the Solemnity of Thursday, Part I
Catherine-Mectilde de Bar of the Blessed Sacrament is, without any doubt, the most Eucharistic soul in what was a Eucharistic century par excellence, and a...