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Julian (of Norwich)

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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 12h
After this our good Lord seid, I thanke thee of thy travel and namely of thy youthe. And in this myn understondyng was lifted up into Hevyn, where I saw our Lord as a lord in his owne house, which hath clepid al his derworthy servants and freinds to a solemne feste. (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The sixth Revelation is of the worshippfull thanke with which He rewardith His servants, and it hath three joyes. Fourteenth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And after this I fel into a sadhede, and seid, "I se three things, game, scorne, and arneste; I se game that the fend is overcome. I se scorne that God scornith him and he shal be scornyd. And I se arneste that he is overcome be the blissfull passion and deth of our Lord Jesus Criste; (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For this sigte I lauhyd migtily, and that made hem to lauhyn that were about me, and ther lauhyng was a likeing to me. I thowte that I wold that al myn evyn Christen had seen as I saw and than should thei al lauhyn with me. But I saw not Criste lawhyn; (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And after, er God shewid ony words, He sufferd me to beholden in Him a conable tyme, and all that I had sene, and all intellecte that was therein, as the simplicite of the soule migte take it. Than He, without voice and openyng of lippis, formys in my soule these words: (1/6)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The fifth Revelation is that the temptation of the fend is overcome be the passion of Criste, to the encres of joy of and to His peyne everlestingly. Thirteenth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And than cam to my minde that God hath made waters plentiuous in erthe to our service and to our bodily ease for tender love that He hath to us, but yet lekyth Him better that we take full homely hys blissid blode to wassch us of synne, for there is no licur that is made that He lekyth so (1/6)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And after this I saw, beholding the body plentiously bleding in seming of the scorgyng, as thus: The faire skynne was brokyn ful depe into the tender flesh with sharpe smyting al about the sweete body. (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fourth Revelation etc.; how it likith God rather and better to wash us in His blode from synne than in water, for His blode is most pretius. Twelfth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For a man beholdith some dedes wele done and some dedes evil. But our Lord beholdyth hem not so. For as al that hath being in kinde is of Godds makyng, so is al thing that is done in propertie of Gods doing. For it is easye to understonde that the best dede is wele done. (1/7)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rightfulhede hath two faire properties: it is right and it is full, and so arn al the werks of our Lord God. And thereto nedith neither the werkyng of mercy ner grace, for it ben al rightfull, wherin feilith nougte. (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wherefore me behovith nedes to grant that al thing that is done, it is wel done, for our Lord God doth alle. For in this time the werkyng of cretures was not shewid, but of our Lord God in the creature. For He is in the mydde poynt of all thyng, and all He doith; (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And after this I saw God in a poynte, that is to sey in myn understonding, be which sight I saw that He is in al things. I beheld with avisement, seing and knowing in sight with a soft drede, and thought, What is synne? For I saw treuly that God doth al thing be it never so litil. (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The third Revelation etc.; how God doth al thing except synne, never chongyng His purpose without end, for He hath made al thing in fulhede of goodnes. The eleventh chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These arn two werkyng that mown be seene in this vision. That on is sekyng; the other is beholdyng. The sekyng is common; that, every soule may have with His grace, and owith to have, that discretion and techyng of the Holy Church. It is God wil that we have thre things in our sekyng. (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And this vision was a lernyng to myn understondyng that the continual sekyng of the soule plesith God ful mekyl, for it may do no more than sekyn, suffrin, and trusten. And this wrought in the soule that hath it be the Holy Ghost. (1/5)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I desire to sey like as I have understond be the grace of God. We know in our faith and beleve be the teaching and preching of Holy Church, that the blissid Trinite made mankinde to His image and to His likenes. (1/7)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This second sheweing was so low and so litil and so simple that my sprets were in grete travel in the beholding, mornand, dredfull, and longand. For I was sum time in doute whither it was a shewing. (1/5)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One tyme mine understondyng was led downe into the see ground, and there I saw hill and dalis grene, semand, as it were, mosse begrowne, with wrekke and with gravel. (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And after this I saw with bodily sight, in the face of the crucifix that henge before me in the which I behelde continualy, a parte of His passion - despite, spitting and sollowing, and buffetting and many langoryng peynes, mo than I can tel, and often changing of colour. (1/5)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The second Revelation is of His discolouryng etc; of our redemption, and the discolouring of the vernacle; and how it plesith God we seke Him besily, abiding Him stedfastly and trusting Hym mightily. Tenth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I speake of hem that shal be save, for in this time God shewid me none other. But in al thing I leve as Holy Church levith, preachith, and teachith. (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For God is all that is good, on to my sight. And God hat made al that is made and God lovith al that He hath made; and he that generaly loveith al his evyn Cristen for God, he lovith al that is. (1/2)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For the shewing I am not goode but if I love God the better. And in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me. I sey this not to hem that be wise, for thei wote it wele, but I sey it to yow that be simple for ese and comfort, for we arn al one in comfort. (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Of the mekenes of this woman kepeing hir alway in the feith of Holy Church; and how he that lovyth his evyn Cristen for God lovith all thing. Ninth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And the bodily sight stinted and the gostly sight dwellid in myne understondyng. And I abode with reverent drede, joyand in that I saw. And I desired as I durst to se more, if it were His will, or ell lenger time the same. (1/6)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And as longe as I saw this sight of the plentious bleding of the hede I might never stinte of these words, "Benedicite, Domine," in which sheweyng I under stode six things. The first is the toknys of the blissid passion and the plentious sheddyng of His pretious blode. (1/5)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A recapitulation of that is seid; and how it was shewid to hir generally for all. Eighth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
But this mervelous homlyhede may no man weten in this tyme of life, but he have it of special shewing of our Lord, or of grete plenty of grace inwardly govyn of the Holy Ghost. But faith and beleve with charite deservith the mede; and so it is had be grace; (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And of all the sight it was most comfort to me, that our God and Lord that is so reverent and dredefull is so homley and curtes, and this most fullfilled me with likeing and sekirnes of soule. And to the understondyng of this He shewid this opyn example. (1/6)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And to lerne us this, as to myne understondyng, our Lord God shewed our Lady Saint Mary in the same tyme, that is to mene the hey wisedome and trewth she had in beholding of hir Maker, so grete, so hey, so mightie, and so gode. (1/8)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How our Lady, beholdyng the gretenes of hir Maker, thowte hirselfe leste; and of the great droppys of blode renning from under the garland; and how the most joy to man is that God most hie and mightie is holyest and curtesiest. Seventh chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
For our kindly will is to have God and the gode will of God is to have us, and we may never blyn of willing ne of longyng till we have Him in fullhede of joy; and than may we no more willen. (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wherefore it pleaseth Him that we seke Him and worship be menys, under stondyng and knoweing that He is the goodness of all. For the goodness of God is the heyest prayer and it comith downe to the lowest party of our nede. (1/8)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For thus as I shall say came to my minde: In the same time we pray to God for His holy flesh and for His pretious blode, His holy passion, His deareworthy death and wounds; and all the blissid kindenes, the endles life, that we have of all this, is His goodnes. (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This sheweing was made to lerne our soule wisely to clevyn to the goodnes of God. And in that time the custome of our prayeing was browte to mende, how we use for lak of understonding and knowing of love to make many menys. (1/3)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How we shold pray; and of the gret tender love that our Lord hath to mannes soule, willing us to be occupyed in knowing and loveing of Him. The sixth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Also our Lord God shewed that it is full gret plesance to Him that a sily soule come to Him nakidly and pleynly and homely. For this is the kinde yernings of the soule by the touching of the Holy Ghost, as be the understondyng that I have in this sheweing: (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In this littil thing I saw three properties: the first is that God made it, the second is that God loveth it, the third, that God kepith it. But what is to me sothly the maker, the keper, and the lover I canot tell, for till I am substantially onyd to Him I may never have full rest ne very (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In this same time our Lord shewed to me a ghostly sight of His homely loveing. I saw that He is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us. (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How God is to us everything that is gode, tenderly wrappand us; and all thing that is made, in regard to Almighty it is nothing; and how man hath no rest till he nowteth himselfe and all thing for the love of God. The fifth chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In this He browght our blissid Lady to my understondyng. I saw hir ghostly in bodily likeness, a simple mayde and a meke, young of age and little waxen above a child, in the stature that she was wan she conceived with child. (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And in the same sheweing sodenly the Trinite fullfilled the herte most of joy; and so, I understood, it shall be in Hevyn withoute end to all that shall come there. For the Trinite is God, God is the Trinite. (1/5)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In this sodenly I saw the rede blode trekelyn downe fro under the garlande hote and freisly and ryth plenteously, as it were in the time of His passion that the garlande of thornys was pressid on His blissid hede. (1/2)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Here begynnith the first revelation of the pretious crownyng of Criste etc. in the first chapter, and how God fullfilleth the herrte with most joy, and of His greate meekenesse; (1/2)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And in this, sodenly all my peyne was taken fro me, and I was as hele, and namely in the other party of my body, as ever I was aforn. I mervalid at this soden change, for methought it was a privy workeing of God and not of kinde, and yet by the feleing of this ease I trusted never the more to (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My curate was sent for to be at my endeing, and by than he cam I had sett my eyen and might not speke. He sett the cross before my face and seid, "I have browte thee the image of thy maker and Saviour. (1/4)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And when I was thirty yers old and halfe, God sent me a bodely sekeness in which I lay three dayes and three nights, and on the fourth night I tooke all my rites of Holy Church and wened not a levyd till day; and after this I langorid forth two dayes and two nights. (1/5)
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Of the sekenese opteyned of God be petition. Third chapter. #Shewings
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
These two desires of the passion and the sekenesse I desired with a condition, seying thus: "Lord, thou wotith what I would, if it be Thy will that I have it, and if it be not Thy will, good Lord, be not displeased, for I will nought, but as Thou wilt." For the third, by the grace of God and (1/3)
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