Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

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Born to poor but pious peasants. She was a very pious child who suffered with poor health, but who received visions and prophesies; they were so common that she thought all children could see the Child Jesus and the souls in Purgatory. She was able to diagnose illness and recommend cures, and to see a person’s sins.

She worked on her family’s and other area farms, as a seamstress, and as a servant to a poor organist where she studied the instrument. Entered the Augustinian convent at Agnetenberg, Dulmen, Germany in 1802. Though her health was poor, her enthusiasm for the religious life was great, and she either energized her sisters, or put them off badly. Given to going into religious ecstasies in church, her cell, or while working.

The convent was closed by government order in 1812, and Anne moved in with a poor widow. Her health failed, and instead of working as a servant, in 1813 she became a patient. Her visions and prophesies increased, and later that year she received the stigmata with wounds on her hands and feet, her head from the crown of thorns, and crosses on her chest, and the gift of inedia, living off nothing but Holy Communion for the rest of her life. She tried to hide the wounds, but word leaked out, and her vicar-general instituted a lengthy and detailed investigation; it was determined to be genuine.

In 1818 she was relieved of the stigmata. In 1819 the government opened their own investigation. She was imprisoned, threatened, cajoled, and kept under 24-hour-a-day surveillance. The commission found no evidence either way, could not get Anne to change her story, eventually gave up, and failed to publish their findings. When they were forced to report, they declared the incident a fraud, but could not explain why they thought so, or why they had not published their findings.

The poet Klemens Brentano visited Anne. She announced that she had seen Brentano in a vision, and that he was to make a written record of the revelations that she received. He made notes of the messages, translating from Anne’s Westphalian dialect to common German, getting Anne to confirm his version. In 1833 these were published as The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the Meditations of Anne Catherine Emmerich. This was followed in 1852 by The Life of The Blessed Virgin Mary, and a three-volume Life of Our Lord from 1858 to 1880. While many such revelatory works deal with spirituality and ideas, these are very much straight-forward narratives and descriptions of events, yet have been the source of encouragement for many.

Her Cause for Canonization formally introduced on 14 November 1892. Due to accusations about her vow of chastity, the investigation was halted on 30 November 1928. However, the accusations were proven false, and the investigation resumed on 18 May 1973.

 

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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, German Stigmatic and Victim Soul (1774-1824)

House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus, Turkey found through Emmerich's visions

 

How the House of the Blessed Virgin Mary (House of the Dormition) was found due to Anne Catherine's descriptions of the location taken from her visions

In 1891, Anne Catherine's writings of one of the visions she received of the House of the Virgin Mary (the house where the Virgin Mary allegedly lived in towards the end of Her life) led a group of Lazzarist priests from the city of Izmir, Turkey to set out to try to find the place Blessed Emmerich described in Ephesus, or, in the case of one of the priests, to demonstrate that Blessed Emmerich was wrong.

The Lazzarist priests spent two hot summer days looking around Ephesus, finding nothing. When their water ran out, they asked some local women where they could find a well and were directed up the hill to the "monastery." There they found a spring next to the ruins of a little chapel half hidden by the trees in a scene almost exactly as Blessed Emmerich had described.

Afterwards, excavations led to the conclusion that the chapel was built no earlier than the seventh century, but that part of it was erected on the foundation of a much older building, one constructed with materials that the archaeologists said were similar to those used in the first centuries.

Anne Catherine Emmerich died at 8:30pm on February 9, 1824. It was only during the last five years of her life that she began to write down the history of her visions which have become a treasury for many of the faithful. She was Beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, pray for us!

 

Mystics of the Church: Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

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пре 49 минута, Bernard рече

                               

                               

 

The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Moram,.... nazalost vrlo cudna mistika,..... blago receno....  

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Iiiiiiijuuuuuu Boki, pa kad pre pročita celu knjigu.......

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Anna Katharina Emmerick über sich selbst

 

"Was ich habe, habe ich nicht von mir,
ich bin nur ein Instrument in der Hand des Herrn"

 

„Viele wünschen: Ich wollte, dass ich doch wäre wie der und die! – Das ist ja wunderlich: Denn Gott führt jeden seinen eigenen Weg; und was macht es, ob wir auf diesem oder jenem Weg zum Himmel kommen? Möchten wir alles nur tun, was Gott von uns verlangt.“

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New Light on the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

                                        

 

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) is without a doubt one of the most fascinating and complex mystics in a Catholic Church that already boasts a very large number of fascinating and complex mystics.

From the time she was a tiny child, Anne Catherine experienced constant, vivid, often disconnected visions of faraway places, times, and individuals. Scrutiny of her descriptions indicates an uncannily detailed and accurate knowledge of countless things that she could never have directly experienced or even heard about, considering where she grew up and subsequently lived, her low level of education, and her limited circle of friends. To take an example, her descriptions of early Christian liturgical practices (such as wearing the Blessed Sacrament in a sort of pyx, receiving It in the hand on a cloth, receiving under both kinds) are striking, matching the scholarship of a later period, and utterly unlike the Church worship she was familiar with in her time.

Unfortunately, Anne Catherine has been ill-served in English. Until quite recently, the available translations represented but a tiny sliver of her marvelous range of visions, edited with pious intentions and rendered in a stiff style. It would be like having only one Book of the Confessions, The Imitation of Christ, or the Showings of Julian of Norwich, each expurgated and translated by Edward Pusey.

I say "until quite recently" because Angelico Press began to fill the void in 2015 with the release of a handsome set of 3 volumes, The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (vol 1, vol 2, vol 3) which include extensive maps and hundreds of illustrations, and significantly improved translations of the texts.

Angelico has just announced the publication of an even more impressive series: New Light on the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich, 11 matching volumes of the mystic's visions, plus a biography, all in both paper and cloth. These volumes, containing huge amounts of text never before published in English, represent the fruit of more than a decade of research and translation by James Wetmore. In 2009, the original notes of Anne Catherine’s visions, in 38 notebooks, became available for reference for the first time, and the present series incorporates much new material from them.

With regard to individuals and themes, every reference thus far located in the notes and in prior translations have been woven together so that the reader can easily find in one place almost all of what Anne Catherine had to say on any topic.

The volumes in this new series include:

1. First Beginnings: Creation to the Patriarchs

2. Mysteries of the Old Testament: From Joseph to Malachi

3. People of the New Testament, Book I: St. Joseph, the Magi, St. John the Baptist, Four Apostles

4. People of the New Testament, Book II: Nine Apostles, St. Paul, Lazarus, Secret Disciples

5. People of the New Testament, Book III: Major Disciples and Other Friends of Jesus

6. People of the New Testament, Book IV: Early Friends and Minor Disciples and Persecutors

7. People of the New Testament, Book V: Holy Women, Female Disciples, Relatives

8. The Life of the Virgin Mary (including her Essene ancestry)

9. Scenes from the Lives of the Saints (treating of 59 saints)

10. Inner Life and Worlds of Soul & Spirit: Prayer, Parables, Purgatory, Heavenly Jerusalem, Revelations, Holy Places, Gospels, etc.

11. Spiritual Works and Journeys: The Nuptial House, Vineyard, Sufferings for Others, the Church, and the Neighbor

12. The Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich by Carl Schmöger and Helmut Fahsel, with additional material

Just to give two examples of the riches to be found in these volumes:

                                       

First Beginnings commences with the visionary’s account of Creation, the Fall of the Angels, the formation of the Earth and Paradise, and the mysterious Mountain of the Prophets. The second part presents Adam and Eve, the Trees of Life and Knowledge, the Fall of Humankind, the Promise of the Redeemer, Cain and Abel, the Children of God, the Giants, Enoch, Noah, the Tower of Babel, and such ancient figures as Hom, Jamshid, Nimrod, Derketo, Semiramis, and Melchizedek, concluding with Job. The third part offers fascinating new insights into the lives and missions of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

                                         

                                         

 

Mysteries of the Old Testament commences with an account of Joseph and his wife Asenath in Egypt, with special focus on “The Mystery of the Promise”—perhaps the most unique and powerful theme running through all these volumes. Fresh perspectives are offered on Moses, Samson and Delilah, the Nazirites, Elijah and Elisha, Tobias, Ezra, Zoroaster, the Holy Book of Ctesiphon, and the final prophet, Malachi. The second part is thrilling, passing through several stages of the Ark of the Covenant, which reaches its consummation, in its fourth and final form, in the Virgin Mary herself.

Christopher Ferrara says of this set: “Angelico Press has established a landmark in publishing definitive, revised editions (in many cases supplemented with material never translated before) of the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich, who was beatified by John Paul II in 2004. This multi-volume work will be the authoritative English-language reference for her testimony.”

Kevin Vost reacts: “To call Angelico’s new, definitive editions based upon the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich a stunning, moving, and beautiful epic is an exercise in understatement. Their multi-volume editions detail not only the fascinating story of the stigmatist and visionary of the turn of the 19th century, but the even more enthralling stories of just what those visions contained, depicted both in words and images, supplemented and made complete by previously untranslated material from the original notes of Clemens Brentano, maps, chronologies, genealogies, and everything readers need to immerse themselves in the totally gripping world of the life of Jesus Christ as God revealed it to her, as well as stories from the Old Testament and the lives of the saints, teachings on the spiritual life, heaven, hell, purgatory, and more.”

As time permits, I hope to share with NLM readers extracts from these volumes that pertain to the sacred liturgy. There are many such passages.

I have been edified, dazzled, perplexed, nourished, and moved by what I have read in these new volumes, and can give them my unqualified recommendation.

 

 

New Liturgical Movement: New Light on the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

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On 1.10.2021. at 21:04, Bokisd рече

Moram,.... nazalost vrlo cudna mistika,..... blago receno....  

Opiši mi mistiku koja nije (vrlo) čudna.

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Управо сада, Bernard рече

Opiši mi mistiku koja nije (vrlo) čudna.

Mistika opisana u delima i pisanijama i zitijama svetih. U odnosu na to mnoge stvari ovde opisane su za ispitivanje.

 

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Opiši mi nekoliko primera iz žitija.

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Problem je sto je struktura ovih mistika i kolicina i kvalitet takav da prevazilazi darove i iskustva koja su imali svetitelji u svojim misticnim stanjima, jednostavno to i takvo opisano tesko mozes da nadjes u zitijama svetih i njihovim delima i pisanijama o njihovim misticnim iskustvima.

Koliko vidim ima i kod rimokatolika onih koji su oprezni u vezi svih tih vidjenja i mistike Ane Katarine, sto je ocekivano jer je ovde glavno pitanje da li je celokupna ova mistika Ane u skladu sa duhovnim predanjem i Svetim Pismom i tumacenjem i iskustvom svetitelja.