Images that it is perhaps best not to use in modern sermons, no 238435.

[tree_and_leaf]

From sermon 71 in the St Georgener Predigten in the Rieder edition (1908, MTU 10), on the joys of heaven, translation mine.

"(God) shares Himself so fully with the souls that they do not desire anything other that what they have, that is God, the highest (or: excessive) good. Now you should know that Our Lord has two breasts from which the souls in heaven suck both delight and joy: that is, His pure humanity and His lovely divinity. He moves the soul from one breast to the other: if she want milk, He gives her the breast of his humanity; if she want wine and honey, He gives her the breast of His sweet divinity. Of which the prophet has said, 'Open your mouth that you may suck your fill'."

Um, yeah. (Also, what on earth is kipper win?)

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[sacred-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

I am amazed by the erudition of your flist!

I know nothing of wine or German, though I'm familiar with metaphors in sermons that seem to wander off from where the preacher intended sometwhere between his mouth and their ears.

But I do have the name of the suprisingly naked nun (and wasn't that a fun google search!) from the BBC's Mediaeval Mind programme. I think, based on what I heard from the programme and slight googling, that is was Angela of Foligno. There's something about her here (http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/RLA-Archive/1998/italian-html/Morrison,%20Molly.htm), in the unlikely event she's new to you.

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh, Angela! I knew of her, and had marked her down on the reading list, but no-one told me she stripped. Some people have the oddest priorities.