Daily Scripture

(from the Collect for Julian of Norwich)

Most holy God, the ground of our beseeching, who through your servant Julian revealed the wonders of your love: grant that as we are created in you nature and restored by your grace, our wills may be so made one with yours that we may come to see you face to face and gaze on you for ever;

Daily Reflection

On this day in 1373, Julian of Norwich received her last rights. Just thirty years old, she was gravely ill and expected to die. But instead she received a series of sixteen visions primarily of Christ on the Cross. She was also completely healed. For the next twenty years Julian meditated in prayer upon the things she had seen, recording her reflections in a book, becoming the first woman anywhere in the world to publish a book in the English language.

Julian chose to live in almost complete solitude in a small cell built onto the side of St. Julian’s Church in Norwich. Her writing is mystical and marked profoundly by a message of God’s all-encompassing love and the quote for which she is best known also captures her absolute certainty in the love of Christ - ‘All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well’ Perhaps that is something you may want to meditate on today.

Lyn Hayes ALM