{"id":25097,"date":"2009-11-19T05:40:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/saint-mechtild-of-magdeburg\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T05:40:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:40:50","slug":"saint-mechtild-of-magdeburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/saint-mechtild-of-magdeburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Mechtild (of Magdeburg)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Mechthild%20von%20Helfta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mechthild von Helfta.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/Mechthild von Helfta-thumb-250x245-5045.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"245\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Then shall I leap into love&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I cannot dance,&nbsp;Lord, unless you<br \/>\nlead me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you want me to leap with abandon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You must intone the song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Then I<br \/>\nshall leap into love, From love into knowledge,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">From knowledge into enjoyment,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And from enjoyment beyond all<br \/>\nhuman sensations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There I want to remain, yet want also to circle higher still.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to some scholars, this Cistercian-Benedictine nun and poet, theologian and mystic was the inspiration of<i> Dante&#8217;s Divine<\/i> Comedy. Interesting that her liturgical memorial comes at the end of the liturgical calendar given her visions of heaven, hell and purgatory! Some people register a doubt about her status as a canonized saint in the Church but she is remembered in the Roman Martyrology (2004) and venerated as such by many, including the Cistercian-Benedictines and that&#8217;s good enough for me. The Martyrology speaks of Saint Mechtild as a woman of exquiste doctrine and humility, and supernatural gifts of mystical contemplation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The prayer for Saint Mechtild may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/mt.stblogs.org\/cgi\/mt-search.cgi?search=mechtild&amp;IncludeBlogs=23\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and her biography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/10106a.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then shall I leap into love&#8221; I cannot dance,&nbsp;Lord, unless you lead me. If you want me to leap with abandon, You must intone the song. Then I shall leap into love, From love into knowledge, From knowledge into enjoyment, And from enjoyment beyond all human sensations. There I want to remain, yet want also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/saint-mechtild-of-magdeburg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Mechtild (of Magdeburg)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}