The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Overview
An account of Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary, her marriage to St. Joseph, and the events surrounding the birth of Christ. Emmerich’s revelations provide an embellished history of the Gospel events, detailing the marriage ceremony and the preparation for the Christ’s birth.
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Key Features
- Accounts of Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions
- Embellishes the narrative of the Nativity
- Provides insight into the spiritual life of a saint
Praise for Anne Catherine Emmerich
Her example opened the hearts of poor and rich alike, of simple and cultured persons, whom she instructed in loving dedication to Jesus Christ.
Anne Catherine stands like a cross at the side of the street, to indicate the right direction to the faithful. That which she says is brief but simple, full of depth, warmth and life. I understood everything. Always happy, affectionate, dignified, marvelous; always ill, agonizing, but at the same time delicate and fresh, chaste, tried, lucid. To be seated at her side meant to occupy the most beautiful place in the world.
—Clemens Brentano
Product Details
- Title: The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Author: Anne Catherine Emmerich
- Translator: George Richardson
- Publisher: Burns & Oates
- Publication Date: 1899
- Pages: 120
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Spirituality
About Anne Catherine Emmerich
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun whose detailed visions provided her revelations of the life of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. She experienced ecstasies and stigmata during her life and was regarded as a healer. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004.
Take a look at the Anne Catherine Emmerich Collection (3 vols.).
- Accounts of Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions
- Embellishes the narrative of the Nativity
- Provides insight into the spiritual life of a saint
Top Highlights
“That which I now understand is that He wished to sanctify again the conception and the birth of men, which had been so much degraded by original sin.” (Page 26)
“As he was offering to place it on the altar before the Holy of Holies, there came out from it a white flower like a lily, and a luminous apparition descended upon him. It was as if he had received the Holy Ghost. They knew then that St. Joseph was the man designed by God to be the spouse of the Blessed Virgin, and the priests presented him to Mary in the presence of her mother. Mary, resigned to the will of God, humbly accepted him as her spouse, for she knew that everything is possible with God, who had received her vow of belonging only to Him.” (Page 6)
“At Jerusalem the women have to remain in the vestibule, they cannot enter into the Temple—priests only have access to the sanctuary—but at Nazareth it is a virgin, who is herself the Temple. The Holy of Holies is within her, the High Priest is within her, and she is alone with Him. How touching and wonderful is this, and yet how simple and natural.” (Page 25)
“I have learned many things which took place in ancient times in the Grotto of the Crib. I remember only that Seth, the child of promise, was there conceived and brought into the world by Eve, after a penitence of seven years.” (Pages 74–75)
“Blessed Virgin. He saw her praying on her knees before the couch: her back was turned towards him and she was looking towards the east. She seemed to him as if surrounded by flames, and all the grotto seemed to shine with a supernatural light. He looked at it as Moses when he saw the burning bush: then seized with a holy fear, he entered into his cell and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.” (Pages 82–83)
Her example opened the hearts of poor and rich alike, of simple and cultured persons, whom she instructed in loving dedication to Jesus Christ.
Anne Catherine stands like a cross at the side of the street, to indicate the right direction to the faithful. That which she says is brief but simple, full of depth, warmth and life. I understood everything. Always happy, affectionate, dignified, marvelous; always ill, agonizing, but at the same time delicate and fresh, chaste, tried, lucid. To be seated at her side meant to occupy the most beautiful place in the world.
—Clemens Brentano
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun whose detailed visions provided her revelations of the life of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. She experienced ecstasies and stigmata during her life and was regarded as a healer. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004.