Thursday, May 8, 2014
14th Century Contemplative - Mystic writer Julian of Norwich (c. 1417)
from "Daily Office West" -- www.dailyoffice.org/
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England, the Middle Ages: a young woman of 30 is stricken by terrible illness and given last rites to prepare her for heaven. Six days she suffered in agony; then on the seventh day she received 15 visions of Christ’s Passion – and the illness left her. She went straight to her parish church, St. Julian’s, and never left it; they had to build an extra room for her. She wrote down what she’d seen, then spent 15 years trying to sort it out. At last she did; the Lord’s meaning in everything is love. She wrote again, the first book by a woman ever published in the English language, Revelations of Divine Love, a masterpiece of Christian spirituality better read today than ever before. Somehow she was given a unique vision of the feminine side of God.
http://dailyoffice.org/2014/05/08/morning-prayer-5-8-14-dame-julian-of-norwich-mystic-c-1417/
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Cyber-connection here at "Shrine and Cell of the Lady Julian of Norwich":
www.julianofnorwich.org/
The church of S. Julian, Bishop of Le Mans, in the Parish of S. John the Baptist, Timberhill, is the second of the two churches within the parish still open for regular Anglican worship. S. Julian's Church is very much alive and active and well used as it houses the Shrine of the great 14th century mystic Julian of Norwich. The original church building was one of the oldest in the city and was probably standing before the Norman conquest. It is thought that because of its proximity to the river, the patron of the church could have been S. Julian the Hospitaller, who was the patron saint of ferrymen.
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