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          Mechthild of magdeburg: the flowing light of the godhead!

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        1. Mechthild of magdeburg pronunciation
        2. Mechthild von Magdeburg was a German mystic and writer who lived from around to She came from a noble family in Magdeburg and experienced divine.
        3. Mechthild of magdeburg: the flowing light of the godhead
        4. Mechthild's basic assertion about the human heart is its insatiable longing for God. It comes to the fore as the infinite relationship reveals itself.
        5. In Mechthild's text, Mary is depicted as a spiritual teacher who actively draws the narrator into higher forms of the mystical life.

          6. MECHTILD OF MAGDEBURG

           

          Readings:

          PRAYER (traditional language) 
            Draw the souls of thy people into thy love, O God; that, like thy servant Mechthild, we may yearn to be fully thine, for thou dost know us better than we can know ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God now and for ever.

          Amen.

          PRAYER (contemporary language) 
            Draw the souls of your people into your love, O God, that like your servant Mechthild, we may yearn to be fully yours, for you know us better than we can know ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever.

          Amen.
           

          This commemoration first appears in Lesser Feasts & Fasts 2018.

          It draws great God down into a small heart.

           

           


           


          Mechthildof Magdeburg (c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294), a Beguine, was a Christian medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (The