Reuelacio, quam habuit domina Birgitta in Roma post annum iubilei, in qua virgo Maria prenunciat ei, quod itura esset in Iherusalem et Bethleem, quando placuerit Deo, promittens ei tunc sibi ostendere modum, quo ipsa peperit filium suum benedictum.
The Ecstasy of Love
Birgitta is moved to a state of profound contemplative ecstasy through her intense love for the Virgin Mary.
One day, while Lady Birgitta, the bride of Christ, was in Rome and deep in prayer, she began to reflect on the Virgin's childbirth and on the supreme goodness of God, who chose to take such a pure mother for himself. Her heart was so inflamed at that moment with love for the Virgin that she said to herself, "My Lady, Queen of Heaven, my heart rejoices so much that the Most High God chose you to be His mother and deigned to bestow such great dignity upon you," I would rather choose to be tormented in hell forever than have you lose even the smallest moment of such excellent glory and your heavenly dignity. Intoxicated by the sweetness of love, she stood outside herself, detached from her senses, suspended in a kind of mental ecstasy of contemplation.
The Promise of Pilgrimage
The Virgin Mary appears to Birgitta, promising a future pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Bethlehem where the mystery of the Nativity will be revealed.
Then the Virgin appeared to her and said: “Pay attention, daughter.” “I am the Queen of Heaven, and because you love me with such immense love, I am telling you that you will go on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Jerusalem when it pleases my Son.” From there you'll go to Bethlehem, and there I'll show you in that very place the whole way that I gave birth to my same son, Jesus Christ, because it pleased him that it be so.
Read the original Latin
Cum esset in Roma domina Birgitta sponsa Christi et quadam vice oracioni vacaret, cepit cogitare de partu virginis et de illa summa bonitate Dei, qui talem matrem purissimam sibi voluit eligere.
Tantum enim tunc cor eius inflammabatur amore virginis, quod dicebat intra se: "Domina mea regina celi, in tantum gaudet cor meum ex eo, quod altissimus Deus te preelegit in matrem et tantam dignitatem tibi conferre dignatus est,
quod magis ego michi eligerem in inferno eternaliter cruciari, quam quod tu vno minimo puncto de tanta excellenti gloria et tua celesti dignitate careres."
Et sic amoris dulcedine inebriata stabat supra se alienata a sensibus in quodam extasi mentalis contemplacionis suspensa. Cui tunc virgo apparuit dicens ei:
"Attende filia! Ego sum regina celi, et quia tu me diligis tam immenso amore, ideo annuncio tibi, quod tu ibis in sanctam ciuitatem Iherusalem peregrinando, quando placuerit filio meo.
Et inde ibis ad Bethleem ibique ostendam tibi in loco proprio totum modum, qualiter ego peperi eundem filium meum Ihesum Christum, quia sic placuit ei."
Revelationes (Heavenly Revelations) companion
Keep going — one revelation a day
The full 496-chapter Revelationes lives in the Chosen Portion app, served as free daily portions.
Birgitta's revelations arrived over three decades of daily attentiveness, and the Chosen Portion app lets readers receive them the same way — one portion per day.
- Finish the guided path in 8 weeks at roughly 15 minutes a day
- All 8 books, 496 chapters, in modern English — the complete transmitted text
- Daily delivery so a 30-year masterwork becomes a sustainable habit