Month: January 2023
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Chapter 2: Reflection 19 – The Little Way of Heroic Martyrdom
In 1887, the fourteenth year-old Thérèse Martin, who is now known at Saint Thérèse of Lisieux or the Little Flower of Jesus, her Celine and their father, Louis, made a pilgrimage to Rome. 1 During the trip, this small band of French pilgrims visited the holy sites of the Eternal City, and the sites linked…
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Chapter 2: Reflection 18 – Compassionate Solidarity
When reading of Julian’s “wilful” desire for the “gifte of a bodily sicknes,” one is struck by the level of specificity with which she details the type of illness she desires. As mentioned above, she wants the malady to bring her to the point of death, but her additional specificity is striking: “In this sicknes…
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Chapter 2: Reflection 16 – Steeled by Closeness to Death
Origen of Alexandria (c. 185-254) is a figure with whom TM seems to have identified. 1 And such a sense of affinity can be understood, for while there are certainly differences between to these two Christian men, there are tender points of connection. Indeed, the lives of each were marked by early exposure to intense…
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Chapter 2: Reflection 15 – To Die Without Dying
In her request for the “gift” of a “bodily sicknes,” Julian provides a significant amount of detail about the type of malady she requested. 1 She states that she wished that the sickness would bring her to the very point of death, so that both she and those around her would believe that she was…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 