Raissa Maritain ..a great contemplative

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Raissa Maritain, wife of the great Thomist Jacques Maritain and a great contemplative along the roads of the world …

One of her works is now available online…as are some of her husband…

On the Lords Prayer maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/notlp.htm

about her… catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0052.html

on them maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/lives.htm

Her best work …was her Journal which her husband assembled and published after her death…after which would be the little work ‘prayer and intelligence’

and this work: Liturgy and Contemplation ewtn.net/library/THEOLOGY/LITCOM.HTM
 
Thanks for the link Bookcat. I began reading her memoirs two years ago (by Image Books) and stopped and forgot about her. 🙂

I should pick up where I left off. God Bless.
 
KyivAndrew said:
Thanks for the link Bookcat. I began reading her memoirs two years ago (by Image Books) and stopped and forgot about her. 🙂

I should pick up where I left off. God Bless.
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you are very welcome

you will have to track down “Raissa’s Journal” in a library loan…

it has an ugly cover…(printed in the 1960’s) but the beauty inside is beyond description…in more than one way…but particularly for those interested in contemplative prayer in the midst of the world…
 
"We have no other guide to eternal life, divine life, beatitude, than the Life of Christ, the Teaching of Christ, the Passion of Christ, and the Prayer of Christ. The imitation of Christ is the way of love and of holiness.

Thus the Lord’s Prayer, taught us by Christ,{5} is the truest of prayers, the most completely and perfectly true, just and agreeable to God, the prayer whose flame must always burn within us."

Raissa Maritain
 
I found this passage interesting in Raissa Maritain’s conversion process from her Memoirs:

“The Revelations of Anna Catherine Emmerich gave us a picture of Catholicism that was crowded and vivid, moving and yet familiar. They taught us countless things – we, who knew nothing of Catholic history, dogmas, theology, liturgy, mysticism. At that time a sober catechism would probably have done nothing to make us understand. In our ignorance we had the greatest need for the help of images, for that sort of portrait of the Church, drawn in the four dimensions of height and length, of width and depth. And at the same time we were shown heroic Catholicism – sanctity in its terrible trials, in its humility and divine charity, in its asceticism, in the beatitude wherein it reaches it fulfillment, in its pure harmony, in its power, in its beauty.”

She goes on to note the Church’s mystical body, independent of the imperfections and faults “of some, or of most, of the members of the visible Church – the Church whose head is Christ, whose soul is the Holy Spirit, but whose members are born sinners like all men since the Fall;”.

Raissa was given given the gift of writing quite movingly and sincerely about herself, Christ, the Church, mysticism, and Jacques – from what I have read so far.
 
KyivAndrew said:
Raissa was given given the gift of writing quite movingly and sincerely about herself, Christ, the Church, mysticism, and Jacques – from what I have read so far.
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yes…very much so. She was a poet as well…
 
quote from Liturgy and Contemplation:

According to Saint Bernard’s saying, the measure of loving God is to love Him without measure—“modus diligendi, sine modo diligere.”
 
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