
Minister’s Message – April 7, 2024
Bible reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11.
Julian of Norwich was an English mystic who lived in the late Middle Ages. In 1373 she was suffering an illness so severe that thought she was about to die; however she was healed after receiving visions of Christ’s suffering and (dare I say this?) of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Julian later put her experiences into writing: “It seemed to me that I could feel the Passion of Christ strongly. How I wished I had been at the crucifixion with Mary Magdalene and with others who were Christ’s dear friends, so that I might have seen in the flesh the Passion of our Lord which he suffered for me … I wanted his pains to be my pains, with compassion, and then longing for God … I wanted to suffer with him, while living in my mortal body, as God would give me grace”.
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