Holy Women Mystics

William,
Thank you for Comment.
It leads far even wider:
e.g.  Online

Complete work:

A link to the text of The Exercises of Saint Gertrude, [http://www.archive.org/details/exercisessaintg00gertgoog] an anonymous translation of Prosper Louis Pascal Gueranger's 1863 Les Exercices de sainte Gertrude, itself a French version of the original Latin.

A Google digital version amazing.

Yours.

Donald

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William ...
To: Donald . . . .
Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 14:53
Subject: [Blog] Holy Women Mystics

Dear Father Donald,

 

Thank you for a glorious biographical procession of Holy Women Mystics on your Blog in celebration of St. Getrude the Great's feast day.

 

I came upon St. Hildegard of Bingen whilst following links to 'Sophia' (I am reading with fascination a book entitled 'Sophia' by Christopher Pramuk on 'The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton'): Wikipedia - "Hildegard of Bingen celebrated Sophia as a cosmic figure in both her writing and her art".  

 

And then I blinked last Saturday when I saw a paperback anthology of her writings in a 2nd hand bookshop in a nearby town, a bus-hop away where there are 'grocers' & 'fishmongers' - as opposed to 'supermarkets'! In that I have found the key texts of 'Scivias' on Divine Wisdom, and on the internet gaze in amazement at the orginal manuscript in the Merton College archives at  - http://image.ox.ac.uk/

 

Fr. Michael  . . . made me so aware of the 'heritage' of spiritual writings, and I delight more than ever before in the procession of women mystics.

 

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. . . in Our Lord,

William