Live recording on 12th July 2007 with the Elizabeth Singers
From the beginning love fulfilled me.
Yet when Love first spoke to me of love –
how I laughed at her in reply!
But then she made me like the hazel trees,
which blossom early in the dark season,
and bear fruit slowly.
Hadewijch von Brabant (13thC)
And God said to the soul:
I desired you before the world began,
I desire you now as you desire me;
And where the desires of two come together
there their love is perfected.
Mechtild von Magdeburg (13thC)
(The Soul addresses God)
Lord, you are my lover, my desire, my flowing wetness, my sun:
I am your reflexion.
(How God answers Soul)
It is my nature that makes me love you constantly,
For I am love itself.
It is my longing that gives my love intensity,
For love is from my heart.
It is eternity that makes me love for ever,
For I have no end.
Mechtild von Magdeburg (13thC)
Just as the fish swims in the vastness of the ocean and rests in the deep,
and as the bird boldly soars in the heit and the vastness of the air –
in the same way we feel our spirits roam free
throu the heit and depth of the immense oceans of love.
Beatrijs von Nazareth (13thC)
The Elizabeth Singers
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