“All shall be well…” …has such a nice comforting ring, and is so often used as a shorthand for “don’t worry about this matter, it will be OK!” or, just as often, an expression of relief when a worrisome matter turns out better than one hoped. Yet these words of Jesus (not Julian, who spent […]| Order of Julian
Holy Cross Jesus did and taught many things in the course of his ministry, but said that it was by being lifted up from the earth that he would draw all people to himself. St Paul worked and taught amongst people to whom saying clever things in public was competitive sport. He was a man […]| Order of Julian
Rejoicing in our salvation The thing I love most about Julian is her wonderfully prosaic (could I say “poetically” prosaic?) sensibility: Here is the passage of Julian near the end of the book to which I keep coming back: “He loves us endlessly, and we sin habitually, and he shows the sin to us most […]| Order of Julian
Listening to the Rule The questions of what in the Rule of Benedict makes monastic life not just doable or even bearable have to do with the praxis and structure it offers. But for a document that has endured to the present day, that is not the end of the matter. There is in the […]| Order of Julian
Alleluia! Christ is risen.| Order of Julian
St Matthias Jesus said “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” What does this kind of love look like? Jesus loved as he was loved by being faithful until death, foolishly hanging on a cross until his assigned work was finished. And this is not in any way […]| Order of Julian
Home with us “And then our Lord opened my spiritual eye and showed me my soul in the midst of my heart. I saw my soul as large as an endless world…and an honorable city. In the midst of that city sits our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Revelations, Chapter 67) Our heart is a supremely important […]| Order of Julian
In the middle of this Roman occupation, in a culture of order and everyday violence and injustice and kinds of oppression, in this world of polarities of all kinds, comes this itinerant Jewish rabbi saying it is possible to live in this world without terror, in fact with confidence and boldness. And because this confidence […]| Order of Julian
In the Gospel readings all through Lent we have seen Jesus challenging the people’s understanding of God’s nature, God’s character, God’s intent and method. Besides challenging the peoples’ understanding of God, Jesus is also getting them to look at themselves and their own response to God. Week after week in Lent, Jesus has been offering […]| Order of Julian
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Dame Julian lived in Norwich, England in the 14th and early 15th century, and spent much of her life as an anchorite, a vowed religious living by herself in a small room, called an anchorhold, attached to the parish church of St Julian at Conisford in Norwich.| Order of Julian