"Ever longing in the soul, ever suffering in the body, ever pain in the senses, those who have given themselves utterly to God know well what I mean." #MechtildOfMagdeburg #LiveTheGospel
July 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Ever longing in the soul, ever suffering in the body, ever pain in the senses, those who have given themselves utterly to God know well what I mean." #MechtildOfMagdeburg #LiveTheGospel
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Fish cannot drown in the water, birds cannot sink in the air, gold cannot perish in the refiner's fire. This God gives to all creatures: to develop & seek their own nature - how then can I withstand mine?" bit.ly/453ossb
May 25, 2026 at 5:27 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Fish cannot drown in the water, birds cannot sink in the air, gold cannot perish in the refiner's fire. This God gives to all creatures: to develop & seek their own nature - how then can I withstand mine?" bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures and is not afraid to endure the mockery of others." bit.ly/453ossb
May 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures and is not afraid to endure the mockery of others." bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg, in the tradition of #originalblessing rather than #originalsin: "From the very beginning God loved us. The Holy Trinity gave itself in the creation of all things and made us, body & soul, in #infinitelove. We were fashioned most nobly." bit.ly/453ossb
May 28, 2026 at 7:37 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg, in the tradition of #originalblessing rather than #originalsin: "From the very beginning God loved us. The Holy Trinity gave itself in the creation of all things and made us, body & soul, in #infinitelove. We were fashioned most nobly." bit.ly/453ossb
March 27, 2026 at 1:52 AM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Divinity sings this song to our souls: 'O lovely rose on the thorn! O hovering bee in the honey! O pure dove in your being! O glorious sun in your setting! o full moon in your course! From you I, your God, will never turn away.'" bit.ly/453ossb
May 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Divinity sings this song to our souls: 'O lovely rose on the thorn! O hovering bee in the honey! O pure dove in your being! O glorious sun in your setting! o full moon in your course! From you I, your God, will never turn away.'" bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "From the very beginning, God loved us. The Holy Trinity...made us, body & soul, in #infinitelove. We were fashioned most nobly." Some teach at the beginning humans were...full of #originalsin. Jesus does not. Nor does Mechtild. We were loved from the beginning. bit.ly/453ossb
March 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "From the very beginning, God loved us. The Holy Trinity...made us, body & soul, in #infinitelove. We were fashioned most nobly." Some teach at the beginning humans were...full of #originalsin. Jesus does not. Nor does Mechtild. We were loved from the beginning. bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "How does God come to us? Like dew on the flowers. Like the song of the birds! Yes, God gives the Godself with all creatures wholly to me." Have you ever felt so immersed in connection with nature that every part of you felt touched by divinity? bit.ly/453ossb
May 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "How does God come to us? Like dew on the flowers. Like the song of the birds! Yes, God gives the Godself with all creatures wholly to me." Have you ever felt so immersed in connection with nature that every part of you felt touched by divinity? bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "There comes a time when both body & soul enter into such a vast darkness that one loses light & consciousness & knows nothing more of God's intimacy....With longing & distress we are reminded of our nothingness." bit.ly/453ossb
May 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "There comes a time when both body & soul enter into such a vast darkness that one loses light & consciousness & knows nothing more of God's intimacy....With longing & distress we are reminded of our nothingness." bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I ponder much & reflect in my human sense how wonderful my soul is!"
Do you stop to appreciate your inner self - the joy, beauty, wonder, thoughts & dreams that go on inside you? Can you remember the last time you did this? Take a break from distractions & try. bit.ly/453ossb
Do you stop to appreciate your inner self - the joy, beauty, wonder, thoughts & dreams that go on inside you? Can you remember the last time you did this? Take a break from distractions & try. bit.ly/453ossb
June 1, 2026 at 8:25 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I ponder much & reflect in my human sense how wonderful my soul is!"
Do you stop to appreciate your inner self - the joy, beauty, wonder, thoughts & dreams that go on inside you? Can you remember the last time you did this? Take a break from distractions & try. bit.ly/453ossb
Do you stop to appreciate your inner self - the joy, beauty, wonder, thoughts & dreams that go on inside you? Can you remember the last time you did this? Take a break from distractions & try. bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her." Loving our enemies, embracing our wounds: harder but more effective than denial, anger, or bitterness, yes? bit.ly/453ossb
May 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her." Loving our enemies, embracing our wounds: harder but more effective than denial, anger, or bitterness, yes? bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I, God, am your playmate!...Beloved child, come swiftly to me for I am truly in you. Remember...the smallest soul of all is still the daughter of the Father, sister of the Son, friend of the Holy Spirit, & true bride of the Holy Trinity." #RealmOfWisdom bit.ly/453ossb
May 19, 2026 at 6:24 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I, God, am your playmate!...Beloved child, come swiftly to me for I am truly in you. Remember...the smallest soul of all is still the daughter of the Father, sister of the Son, friend of the Holy Spirit, & true bride of the Holy Trinity." #RealmOfWisdom bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "At such a time I pray to God, 'Lord, this burden is too heavy for me!' God replies: 'I will take this burden first & clasp it close to Myself [so] you may more easily bear it.'" God undergoes the #suffering & dark night first. We have company in our brokenness. bit.ly/453ossb
May 18, 2026 at 5:50 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "At such a time I pray to God, 'Lord, this burden is too heavy for me!' God replies: 'I will take this burden first & clasp it close to Myself [so] you may more easily bear it.'" God undergoes the #suffering & dark night first. We have company in our brokenness. bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "God, you are the sun, I am your reflection. When God shines we must reflect."
This is not a moral "must" or commandment but an organic or natural "must"...we cannot help but reflect the beautiful sun.
bit.ly/453ossb
This is not a moral "must" or commandment but an organic or natural "must"...we cannot help but reflect the beautiful sun.
bit.ly/453ossb
May 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "God, you are the sun, I am your reflection. When God shines we must reflect."
This is not a moral "must" or commandment but an organic or natural "must"...we cannot help but reflect the beautiful sun.
bit.ly/453ossb
This is not a moral "must" or commandment but an organic or natural "must"...we cannot help but reflect the beautiful sun.
bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "The day of my #spiritualawakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things."
#MeisterEckhart calls this #breakthrough the realization that "I and God are one."
#PanENtheism bit.ly/453ossb
#MeisterEckhart calls this #breakthrough the realization that "I and God are one."
#PanENtheism bit.ly/453ossb
May 21, 2026 at 6:17 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "The day of my #spiritualawakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things."
#MeisterEckhart calls this #breakthrough the realization that "I and God are one."
#PanENtheism bit.ly/453ossb
#MeisterEckhart calls this #breakthrough the realization that "I and God are one."
#PanENtheism bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildofMagdeburg:
"God speaks: When yr Easter comes/I shall be all around you,/I shall be thru & thru you / & I shall steal your body / & give you to yr Love."
Francis of Assisi & Aquinas talk abt our 1st & 2nd death & 1st & 2nd resurrection: the 1st is waking up in this lifetime. bit.ly/4tueWaP
"God speaks: When yr Easter comes/I shall be all around you,/I shall be thru & thru you / & I shall steal your body / & give you to yr Love."
Francis of Assisi & Aquinas talk abt our 1st & 2nd death & 1st & 2nd resurrection: the 1st is waking up in this lifetime. bit.ly/4tueWaP
Mechtild of Magdeburg on Undergoing “Our Easter” - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
I ended my Saturday DM on “Easter 2026” with the phrase, “We become an Easter.” I want to give credit where credit is due. I am borrowing from Mechtild of Magdeburg who wrote: God speaks: When your Ea...
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April 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
#MechtildofMagdeburg:
"God speaks: When yr Easter comes/I shall be all around you,/I shall be thru & thru you / & I shall steal your body / & give you to yr Love."
Francis of Assisi & Aquinas talk abt our 1st & 2nd death & 1st & 2nd resurrection: the 1st is waking up in this lifetime. bit.ly/4tueWaP
"God speaks: When yr Easter comes/I shall be all around you,/I shall be thru & thru you / & I shall steal your body / & give you to yr Love."
Francis of Assisi & Aquinas talk abt our 1st & 2nd death & 1st & 2nd resurrection: the 1st is waking up in this lifetime. bit.ly/4tueWaP
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Love flows from God to humans w/o effort: As a bird glides thru the air w/o moving its wings - thus they go wherever they wish united in body & soul yet separate in form." The presence of divine love & grace simply flows, not a laborious climb or ascetic march. bit.ly/453ossb
May 27, 2026 at 6:42 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Love flows from God to humans w/o effort: As a bird glides thru the air w/o moving its wings - thus they go wherever they wish united in body & soul yet separate in form." The presence of divine love & grace simply flows, not a laborious climb or ascetic march. bit.ly/453ossb
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I who am Divine am truly in you. I can never be sundered from you;...never can we be separated. I am in you & you are in Me. We could not be any closer. We 2 are fused into 1...thus unwearied, we shall remain forever."
There is nothing btw us & God.
bit.ly/453ossb
There is nothing btw us & God.
bit.ly/453ossb
May 20, 2026 at 5:05 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I who am Divine am truly in you. I can never be sundered from you;...never can we be separated. I am in you & you are in Me. We could not be any closer. We 2 are fused into 1...thus unwearied, we shall remain forever."
There is nothing btw us & God.
bit.ly/453ossb
There is nothing btw us & God.
bit.ly/453ossb
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July 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Do you wish to have #Love? If you wish to have love, then you must leave love." #LettingGo is a lesson all the #mystics teach us: we need to let go of everything eventually. How has letting go changed, deepened, transformed you? To let go can be to grow. bit.ly/453ossb
March 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "Do you wish to have #Love? If you wish to have love, then you must leave love." #LettingGo is a lesson all the #mystics teach us: we need to let go of everything eventually. How has letting go changed, deepened, transformed you? To let go can be to grow. bit.ly/453ossb
Who do you think will be (or should be) the #fifth #woman #doctorofthechurch? #edithstein, #brigidofkildare, #mechtildofmagdeburg, #stbridgetofsweden... I feel it will be someone who lived around the mid-1800s or earlier, like the latest doctor, #johnhenrynewman. I certainly hope #leoxiv names a […]
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June 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Who do you think will be (or should be) the #fifth #woman #doctorofthechurch? #edithstein, #brigidofkildare, #mechtildofmagdeburg, #stbridgetofsweden... I feel it will be someone who lived around the mid-1800s or earlier, like the latest doctor, #johnhenrynewman. I certainly hope #leoxiv names a […]