Life, Love, and Light Nearing the end of her book of Revelations, Julian of Norwich focuses on three words: “life, love, and light.” By God’s life, she means his familiarity, intimacy, and enduring closeness to us in the ground of our being, out of which he will never come. By God’s love, she understands his all-embracing and courteous care for our souls. And by God’s light, she sees his everlasting Being that will never change or alter its expression toward us. She recognizes this trini [...]
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"I Am the Ground" In the Fourteenth Revelation, Julian of Norwich shares what Christ taught her about prayer:And all this our lord brought suddenly to my mind, and shewed these words and said:I am the ground of thy beseking [beseeching in prayer]. First it is my will that thou have it, and next I make thee to will it, and next I make thee to beseke it—and thou besekest it! How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseking?In an astounding moment, the Lord completely inverts the idea that prayer [...]
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Easter Joy! At the end of her Revelations, Julian of Norwich writes:And from the time that it was shown, I desired oftentimes to know what was our lord’s meaning. And fifteen years after and more, I was answered in ghostly understanding, saying thus: “What, wouldest thou know thy lord’s meaning in this thing [the whole revelation]? Know it well, love was his meaning. Who shewed it to thee? Love. What shewed he to thee? Love. Wherefore shewed he it to thee? For love. Hold thee therein, thou [...]
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Christ's Passion In the Eighth Revelation, Julian of Norwich is led into a realistic vision of the terrible dying of Jesus Christ.After this, Christ shewed a part of his passion near his dying. I saw the sweet face as it were dry and bloodless with pale dying; and afterward more deadly pale, languring; and then [it] turned more deadly into blue; and afterward more brown blue, as the flesh turned more deeply dead. For his passion shewed to me most explicitly in his ble [...]
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Contrition and Comfort Dear Friends,In the Thirteenth Revelation, Julian of Norwich writes:Sinne is the sharpest scourge that any chosen soul may be smitten with. Which scourge beats down man and woman, and also breaks him, and disgusts him in his own sight—so much so that sometimes he thinks himself not worthy, except as it were to sink into hell—till contrition takes him by the touching of the holy ghost, and turns the bitterness into hope of God’s mercy. And then his wounds begin to heal [...]
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