Words of Light & Love from Hadewijch

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HADEWIJCH OF ANTWERP, A BEGUINE MYSTIC OF THE 13TH CENTURY By

your whole life, then, you should gaze fixedly at God with the sweet

eyes of single affection, which always seeks the service of the

Beloved with delight. That is, you should contemplate your dear God

cordially, yes, much more than cordially, so that the eyes of your

desire, both together, remain fixed to the countenance of your

Beloved by the piercing nails of burning encounters that never cease.

Then for the first time you can rest with Saint John, who slept on

Jesus' breast (John 13:23-25). And this is what they do who serve

Love in liberty; they rest on that sweet, wise breast and see and

hear hidden words (Job 4: 12) -- which are ineffable and unheard-of

by humanity -- through the sweet whisper of the Holy Spirit. *****

***** ***** May God be

God for you in Truth, in which He is God and Love at once! *****

***** ***** If He is

yours in love, you must live for Him, by yourself being love. In

that expectation, abandon yourself to the Truth that He Himself is.

Live thus exclusively for holy Love our of pure love, not because of

the satisfaction you might find by communing with His love in your

devout exercises, but in order to devote yourself to God Himself in

the works that content Love. ***** *****

***** May God give us a renewed mind For

noble and free love, To make us so new in our life That Love

may bless us And renew, with new taste, Those to whom she can

give new fullness; Love is the new and powerful recompense Of

those whose life renews itself for Love alone. *****

***** ***** Be satisfied with nothing

less than Love.-- Hadewijch, from "Hadewijch -- The Complete Works,"

The Classics of Western Spirituality, Paulist

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