Laurent of Resurrection , of its name of birth Nicolas Hermann (v. 1614 with Hériménil - February 12th 1691 with Paris), is known by a small collection of letters and talks in which he tells his spiritual experiments, very whole centered on the practice of the presence of God.
Biography
Nicolas Hermann was born about 1614 with Hériménil, close to Lunéville, in current the Meurthe-et-Moselle. Engaged like soldier during the War Thirty Year old, it is wounded at the time of the battle of Rambervillers in 1635 and leaves a little later the Lorraine devastated by the famine and the plague. It goes to Paris, where it finds a place of lackey in the sior Gaspard de Fieubet, ordinary adviser of the king and chancellor of the queen. Then it enters to the déchaux Carmes, Rue of Vaugirard, where it pronounces its wishes of brother convers in 1642. It exerts the trade of cook there, then that of cobbler, until his death, which has occurred on February 12th, 1691.Frère Laurent tells that its first spiritual awakening took place in a very spontaneous way whereas it was 18 years old. The sight of a naked tree in winter, associated with the vision of this same tree flowering in spring, gave birth to in him at the same time a great feeling from detachment and a great dash from love towards God. This experiment an attempt at eremitic life succeeded, which does not succeed. Its life in the Carmelite friars was marked out tops and of bottom during long years, until the day when it included/understood all the force which it could draw from the practice on which it had centered its life.
The radiation of this simple man attracted many visitors to him among its contemporaries. Most famous was undoubtedly Fénelon, on which Frère Laurent made strong impression, and which quotes it in its Réponse to Bossuet . One of most assiduous was a certain Joseph abbot of Beaufort, which collected its letters and transcribed its talks. The publication of the spiritual Maxims in 1692, followed Manners and talks of the Laurent brother of Resurrection in 1694, was worth an audience to him which did not have cease to extend, in particular on the American continent and beyond even of the borders of the Christian world.
Practice of the presence
The essence of its practice is stripped of any dogmatism and holds in a few words: constantly and in any circumstance, to remember the divine presence.Itself said: “So by impossible one could love God in hell, and that it wanted to put to me at it, I would not be concerned with it: because it would be with me, and its presence would make a paradise of them. ”
Publications
- Laurent Brother of Resurrection: Writings and talks over the practice of the presence of God , the Stag, Paris, 1991.
- Laurent of Resurrection: The experiment of the presence of God , the Threshold, Paris, 1997.
External bond
- Brother Lawrence: The Practice off the Presence off God complete Text of practice of the presence of God in English.
- Laurent of Resurrection Biography and extracts.
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