And in the end, God shows her the meaning and the reason behind everything (all that he did and will do for his children) is love (Norwich). She also learns about the importance of being humble and meek. Julian then refers to Jesus as a kind, loving mother because “we have our Being of Him”. She learns about the trinity and how everything is based on that. Nevertheless, she still wonders about the reasons as to why sin is allowed to exist, to which Jesus responds that in spite of sin, “all shall be well” (Norwich). God shows her “His homely loving” and she understands that God is everything that is good for humanity. She also sees Mary, and “the wisdom and the truth of her soul”.
She sees Christ bleeding “as it were in the time of His Passion” (Norwich). At that moment, she desires to suffer with Jesus. Her sight begins to fail, with shortness of breath, and she is certain that she is dying, when suddenly all her pain is taken away from her and she feels at ease. It is meant to open the reader’s eyes to his endless love, his compassion, and many reasons why one should trust in God (“About Julian of Norwich”).Īccording to the text, when she is thirty years old, Julian becomes gravely ill and waits for her death while having her eyes fixed on the crucifix above her bed. Julian received the revelations (based on sixteen visions) on the 8th of May 1373 they reflect her understanding of a deep truth about the love of Christ and his sufferings, and the reason behind them. The original manuscript does not exist anymore but survives instead through copied versions completed by scribes and preserved in private libraries until 1910 but only a single copy has survived to this day (“Julian of Norwich”). There are two versions of the text: a “Short Text” and a “Long Text.” The “Short Text” was written soon after the visions, and the “Long Text” was composed twenty years later (“About Julian of Norwich”). It details the visions she experienced while ill in bed (“Julian of Norwich”). Revelations of Divine Love, written in the 14th century by an anchoress, Julian of Norwich, is remembered today as the first work in the English language written by a woman (“Middle Ages”).
Wikimedia Commons.īy Megan Lamontagne and Charlotte Schamowski “Statue of Julian of Norwich,” Norwich Cathedral, by David Holgate FSDC, 2010. 38 Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love (Selections)
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