Hadewijch Of Brabant's The Awakening

Hadewijch of Brabant was a 13thcentury writer of letters, poems, and narratives. In her writings, she writes diligently in love toward Christ and the Eucharist. In her Letters and Visions, she speaks often of good deeds and treating all with love, which in all, gives to God. For example, in her 6th letter To Live Christ, paragraph 54 describes an instance of a man desiring love but always coming in contact with misery and grief. “Be generous to him so far as lies in your and pour yourself out in helping him.” Her belief is that “it is with our struggles and our suffering for we demand God as a reward for our good works and we wish to feel him present in this life” (pg 363). She puts much emphasis on deeds and Love that throughout her writings