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The book of special grace / Mechthild of Hackeborn and the Nuns of Helfta ; introduced and translated by Barbara Newman ; foreword by Richard Kieckhefer

Author
Mechthild, of Hackeborn, 1241 or 1242-1299?
Uniform Title
Liber specialis gratiae. English
Additional Titles
Mechthild of Hackeborn and the Nuns of Helfta : the book of special grace
Published
New York ; Mahwah, NJ : Paulist Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
xxiii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Newman, Barbara, 1953- and Kieckhefer, Richard

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Annunciation (March 25) -- 1.2.Advent. How the blessed Virgin should be greeted -- 1.3.Second Sunday of Advent. On the fourfold voice of God -- 1.4.Ember Saturday in Advent. Why the Lord's face is compared to the sun -- 1.5.Christmas (December 25) -- 1.6.St. John the Apostle and Evangelist (December -- 1.7.Circumcision of Christ (January 1). How Mechthild.prayed for the community -- 1.8.Epiphany (January 6). On the five doors and on the Lord's baptism -- 1.9.Sunday in the octave of Epiphany. How Christ supplies the soul's defects -- 1.10.Second Sunday after Epiphany, the Feast of Veronica's veil. On the veneration of Christ's image, and on his banquet -- 1.11.St. Agnes (January 21). How the saints can give all their goods to their devotees as if they were their own -- 1.12.Purification of the Virgin (February 2). On St. Anne -- 1.13.Quinquagesima Sunday preceding Lent. On the mountain, the seven stairs and springs, and the throne of God and the blessed Virgin -- 1.14.Palm Sunday. How the soul should minister to the Lord -- 1.15.Holy Week. On five ways of praising God -- 1.16.Holy Week. On the Lord's name and on his sacred wounds -- 1.17.Holy Week. On the tree of the cross -- 1.18.Good Friday. On the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ -- 1.19.Easter. On Christ's resurrection and glorification, with A prayer on the five joys of our Lord Jesus Christ in.his glorious resurrection -- 1.20.Ascension. How God the Father welcomed his Son at the ascension -- 1.21.On the Lord's weeping and on tears of love -- 1.22.Pentecost. On the threefold operation of the Holy Spirit in the apostles and every desiring soul -- 1.23.On Love, and how a person should offer her heart to God -- 1.24.Trinity Sunday. On the living fountain that is God, and the joy of the soul -- 1.25.On the wounds of St. Mary Magdalene (July 22) -- 1.26.On the majestic assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary.(August 15) -- 1.27.On a procession and Mass that the Lord Jesus Christ celebrated during an interdict -- 1.28.On St. Bernard the abbot (August 20) -- 1.29.On the nativity of the glorious Virgin Mary (September 8) -- 1.30.Michaelmas (September 29). On the angels and how humans are associated with them -- 1.31.On the Feast of All Saints (November 1) and how Christ makes up for all the soul's defects -- 1.32.On St. Catherine and her beauty (November 25) -- 1.33.On the least of the saints and the goodness of God -- 1.34.On St. Bartholomew (August 24) and other saints -- 1.35.On the Feast of the Dedication of the Church -- 2.1.How God invites the Soul to hear his heartbeat -- 2.2.On the Lord's vineyard, which is the Church, and a method of fourfold prayer -- 2.3.How God came to the Soul and how she was set on fire with divine love -- 2.4.On the Lord's embrace -- 2.5.The Lord helps her read the lesson -- 2.6.The Lord gently wakes her in the morning -- 2.7.On the Lord's earthly course and labor -- 2.8.On the Lord's kiss -- 2.9.How the Lord appeared to her as a child -- 2.10.How she saw the Lord in the form of a deacon -- 2.11.On the Lord's whip and his chalice -- 2.12.How she was comforted in her temptation -- 2.14.On the desire she had for confession -- 2.15.How Love made up for everything she neglected -- 2.16.How the Lord gave her Love to be her mother -- 2.17.How she became one with the Beloved, and about Love -- 2.19.How the Lord buried her in himself on Good Friday and gave her his heart -- 2.23.On the Lord's kitchen -- 2.24.How the Soul makes a nest in the Lord's heart -- 2.25.On the cross and the Lord's silk garment -- 2.26.On her manifold suffering, her enjoyment of God, and her Lenten vision -- 2.27.How the Lord promised to make her a garment from himself -- 2.30.How the Lord healed her -- 2.31.On the power of Love and on Mechthild's illness -- 2.32.On the Lord's embrace and the Lord's heart -- 2.33.How a person should prepare her heart for God to dwell in -- 2.34.How God gives the Soul his own senses to use -- 2.35.How God called the Soul to himself. On Love and the ten-stringed psaltery -- 2.36.How a person entrusts her pains to God. On the goodness of God's heart, and how he receives virgins -- 2.37.What true and pure virgins should be -- 2.40.How God works in the soul -- 2.41.How Christ counted all the favors done for her as if they had been done for him -- 2.42.On the four kisses -- 3.1.On the ring set with seven precious stones and the Lord's wedding -- 3.3.On five words of divine praise -- 3.5.Three things a person should bear in mind -- 3.7.How a person should invite all creatures to praise God -- 3.10.How a person should lift his heart to God -- 3.11.How it is best to enjoy infused grace -- 3.14.How a person should claim Christ's way of life for herself -- 3.17.How a person should greet the heart of God, offer her heart to God, and commend her senses -- 3.19.How good it is to attend Mass -- 3.22.How a person should prepare for holy communion -- 3.26.How good it is to receive communion frequently -- 3.32.How a person should make up for his negligence -- 3.34.On the five sighs with which a person should fall asleep -- 3.35.How Christ rises at a poor person's sigh -- 3.38.On the wedding garment -- 3.41.How a person should train her memory -- 3.42.How she consulted God in all her works, and the exemplum of an egg -- 3.45.On obedience and fear, and how a person should accept the labor of her servants -- 3.48.What the greatest good is that a person can do with his whole body -- 4.1.On the Lord's assembly and the three dispositions of his heart, and how all the saints and the congregation should drink from the Lord's heart -- 4.2.On the white garment and the crown of the kingdom -- 4.3.How the Virtues shine in the Lord's crown -- 4.5.What especially advances a person in religious life -- 4.6.What saves a person in religious life -- 4.7.Three things that are highly acceptable to God -- 4.8.How the saints prayed for the congregation -- 4.14.How an abbess should be elected -- 4.16.How young girls should behave in the novitiate -- 4.19.How useful it is for a person to break self-will -- 4.20.On free will -- 4.23.How Christ himself supplies what is lacking in a person -- 4.27.How the soul plays a game of dice with Christ -- 4.30.How God clothes himself with the soul, and on the effect of sighs -- 4.32.How a person should behave toward God -- 4.38.On the value of tears and their transformation -- 4.59.Four letters from Mechthild to a certain matron, who was a friend of hers -- 4.39.About a person who was tempted and delivered by Mechthild -- 4.40.About a Dominican friar -- 4.41.On another Dominican friar -- 4.42.How she prayed for another man -- 4.43.How the Lord compares himself to a bee -- 4.44.How the Lord Jesus Christ serves those who serve him -- 4.45.How the Lord Jesus rejoices over a sinner's repentance -- 4.46.How the Lord Jesus offers himself to a faithful soul -- 4.47.On a certain person who was afraid to receive frequent communion -- 4.48.On another woman with the same fear -- 4.49.How a person does for God all that she does for a human being for God's sake -- 4.50.That the Lord is father, mother, brother, and sister -- 4.51.That a person should give her enemies to God -- 4.52.How God accepts the will in place of the deed -- 4.53.How God desires the conversion of sinners -- 4.54.How greatly God delights in the human heart -- 5.3.On the soul of Sister Mechthild [of Magdeburg] -- 5.6.On a soul that flew into the arms of the blessed Virgin Mary when she left her body -- 5.9.On the souls of the Dominican friars Albertus [Magnus] and St. Thomas [Aquinas] -- 5.11.On the soul of Count Burkhard, who died at nineteen -- 5.12.On the soul of a baby girl named E. from Orlamunde -- 5.16.On the souls of Solomon, Samson, Origen, and Trajan -- 5.18.On a prohibition concerning prayers for the departed -- 5.19.On the five Our Fathers that should be said as soon as anyone dies -- 5.20.On hell and purgatory -- 5.21.On the departure of a righteous person from the body -- 2.26.On Mechthild's many sufferings and on her sister's death -- 5.1.On her sister's soul, and how a person's desire lives on after death -- 5.2.More about her sister's soul, and how the souls of the blessed offer God all the words that are recited on their behalf -- 6.1.On the life and death of the reverend abbess, Lady Gertrude -- 6.2.How twelve angels ministered to her -- 6.3.How Christ received himself in her -- 6.4.On her blessed passing -- 6.5.More about her passing -- 6.6.On the hour of her most blessed passing -- 6.7.How this most blessed soul was greeted -- 6.8.How she appeared on the thirtieth day -- 6.9.On the anniversary of the Lady Abbess -- 1.0.On Mechthild's birth, religious vocation, and exceptional gifts -- 4.10.How God caused rain to fall at her prayers -- 4.11.How God spared the monastery because of her merits -- 4.12.How the Lord restored peace for her sake -- 4.13.How the Lord called her and the community mourned for her -- 5.30.On the praiseworthy life of this virgin -- 7.1.On the death of the blessed Sister Mechthild, glorious virgin and nun at Helfta -- 7.2.How she was called by the Lord Jesus Christ -- 7.3.How she was divinely instructed to receive unction -- 7.4.How, when she was anointed, each of the saints gave her all the fruit of their merits -- 7.5.On her devout intention and her powerful, fervent desire on behalf of all -- 7.6.How the blessed Virgin Mary received into her hands the care of the community, entrusted to her by Mechthild -- 7.7.On the sisters' prayers at the sick woman's bed -- 7.8.How Christ greeted that blessed soul in an inconceivable way -- 7.9.How the Holy Trinity and the saints greeted the soul -- 7.10.How Jesus Christ marvelously prepared that soul for its future glory with the attraction of his breath -- 7.11.On the flight of her soul and its reception into the divine heart -- 7.12.On the saints' joy and the increase of their merit -- 7.13.A way of praying to God through this virgin's merits -- and Contents note continued: 7.14.How useful it is to offer the merits of Christ and the saints for souls at the offertory -- 7.15.How no Christian soul entered hell on the day of her passing -- 2.42.On the throne of God, the nine choirs of angels, and the writing of this book -- 2.43.On the name and value of this book -- 5.22.On the truth of this Book of Special Grace -- 5.23.How those who love God's gift in other people will have the same reward -- 5.24.How this book was foreseen -- 5.31.Thanksgiving for the completion of this book -- 7.17.On the name and value of this Book of Special Grace.
Summary
Mechthild's Book consists of visions and revelations about liturgical feasts, saints, and the Blessed Virgin, along with many other revelations experienced by the mystical nun as recounted to her sisters especially her close friend, St. Gertrude the Great. These visions reveal the deeply communal, optimistic spirituality of the Helfta nuns, which revolved around their sacramental and liturgical life and asserted strong, durable bonds between the living and the dead.
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ISBN
9780809106370 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
080910637X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781587686313 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index.
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