[The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Catherine Emmerich]@TWC D-Link book
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

INTRODUCTION
53/134

In the course of these journeys from her home to the most distant countries, she carried assistance to many persons, exercising in their regard works of mercy, both corporal and spiritual, and this was done frequently in parables.

At the end of a year she would go over the same ground again, see the same persons, and give an account of their spiritual progress or of their relapse into sin.

Every part of this labour always bore some reference to the Church, and to the kingdom of God upon earth.
The end of these daily pilgrimages which she made in spirit was invariably the Promised Land, every part of which she examined in detail, and which she saw sometimes in its present state, and sometimes as it was at different periods of sacred history; for her distinguishing characteristic and special privilege was an intuitive knowledge of the history of the Old and New Testaments, and of that of the members of the Holy Family, and of all the saints whom she was contemplating in spirit.

She saw the signification of all the festival days of the ecclesiastical year under both a devotional and a historical point of view.

She saw and described, day by day, with the minutest detail, and by name, places, persons, festivals, customs, and miracles, all that happened during the public life of Jesus until the Ascension, and the history of the Apostles for several weeks after the Descent of the Holy Ghost.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books