Sunday, 9 April 2017

From Julian of Norwich on the gifts of the Passion and Death of Our Lord

Revelations of Divine Love

The Sixth Chapter

............We pray to God for (the sake of) his holy flesh and for his precious blood, his holy Passion, his dearworthy death and wounds: and all the blessed kindness, the endless life that we have of all this, is (of) his Goodness. And we pray him for his sweet Mother's love that him bare; and all the help we have of her is of his Goodness. And we pray by his holy Cross that he died on, and all the virtue and the help that we have of the Cross, it is of his Goodness. And on the same wise, all the help that we have of special saints and all the blessed Company of Heaven, the dearworthy love and endless friendship that we have of them, it is of his Goodness...................

..........so are we, soul and body, clad in the Goodness of God, and enclosed. Yea, and more homely - for ......the Goodness of God is ever whole - ..............for truly our Lover desireth that our soul cleave to him with all its might.............For of all things that heart may think, this pleaseth most God.........
  For our soull is so specially loved of him that is highest, that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures: that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may wot how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loveth us.
  For our kindly Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us;.........
  For he willeth that we be occupied in knowing and loving till the time that we shall be fulfilled in Heaven; and therefore was this lesson of Love shewed,...........and maketh the soul (to have) true meekness; with plenty of charity to his even (fellow)- Christians.