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Adrienne von Speyr

    September 20, 1902 – September 17, 1967

    Adrienne von Speyr was a Swiss medical doctor and author of over 60 books on spirituality and theology. Her writings delve into profound spiritual insights and theological reflections, believed by her to be born from mystical experiences dictated to her spiritual director. Von Speyr is considered a mystic who deeply explored the mysteries of the Trinity and the lives of saints, offering readers a unique window into divine contemplation.

    Adrienne von Speyr
    Die Bergpredigt
    Das wort und die Mystik II.
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    Das geheimnis des Todes
    Letter to the Ephesians
    Gates of Eternal Life
    • Gates of Eternal Life

      • 140 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      The Swiss spiritual writer and mystic explores the various and wonderful "gates into eternal life" which God's grace has placed in our earthly life to help us get to Heaven. These "gates" include the Sacraments, the Church's calendar, Faith, Prayer and Holy Scripture. Adrienne's poetic and profound insights can reawaken our sense of the nearness of God, of his immense love and mercy, of his eternity and his great desire to bring to us to be with him there forever. "When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new the sense of the eternal."- Adrienne von Speyr

      Gates of Eternal Life
    • Letter to the Ephesians

      • 269 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The contemporary mystic and spiritual writer Von Speyr gives a verse by verse commentary on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians that is the fruit of her own contemplative meditation and prayerful reflection. As with her other volumes of New Testament meditations, this one bears two distinctive features. First, her method of expressing the theological meaning of an enunciation is not merely to state the universal Christian truth, but also to characterize the particular angle of vision from which the sacred writer (St. Paul) sees it. Thus Paul's way of conceiving the content and life of faith, and the self-conscious role of the apostle in the economy of salvation accordingly stands out in bold relief. Secondly, Von Speyr always retraces the content of the words back to the source of revelation, which is the Trinity-she has an unremitting regress to the Triune God who occupies the central position in the whole of scriptural revelation, and is its one viewpoint and theme that must be heard for its own sake.

      Letter to the Ephesians
    • Matka Jezusa, Matka Kościoła, Oblubienica, Służebnica Pańska - Maryja, która dosłyszała wezwanie Boga, to znaczy oddała się całkowicie i bez reszty do dyspozycji skierowanemu do Niej wezwaniu. Poświęciła się całą mocą i całą głębią swojego istnienia, swoich możliwości, złożyła Bogu dar ze swego ducha i ciała, rezygnując z siebie. Wnikliwe studium poświęcone Matce Bożej, Jej roli w dziele zbawienia, a także budowaniu Kościoła i kształtowaniu wiary każdego z nas.Autorka, obdarzona wrażliwością i mistycznym wejrzeniem, rozważa tajemnice Boże, zgłębiając niepokalaną naturę Maryi i działanie Boga w Jej życiu. Dobitnie podkreśla sens przyzwolenia wypowiedzianego przez Maryję wobec Bożego posłańca. Fiat Maryi jest całkowite i wszechogarniające, nie ma w nim wątpliwości ani niepokoju. Określa ono Jej życie, i czyni je wyjątkowym pośród wszystkich istnień.Adrienne von Speyr (1902-1967) - szwajcarska lekarka, mistyczka i stygmatyczka. Urodzona w rodzinie protestanckiej przeszła na katolicyzm w 1940 r. Boże powołanie realizowała wobec pacjentów, opiekując się nimi ze współczucie i oddaniem. Gdy i ja dotknęły choroba i cierpienie, wyraz wiary i miłości dala w swoich pismach.

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