Month: September 2023
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Chapter 4: Reflection 2 – To You We Cry
After describing how she saw the blood trickle down from under the garland of thorns, Julian states: “I conceived truly and mightly that it was himselfe that shewed it me, without any meane.” The “himself” refers to the one upon whose “blessed head” the garland of thorns was “pressed,” the one who is “both God…
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Chapter 4: Reflection 1 – A Garland of Tears
And in this, sodenly I saw the red bloud trekile downe from under the garlande, hote and freshely, plentuously and lively, right as it was in the time that the garland of thornes was pressed on his blessed head. Right so, both God and man, the same that sufferd for me. 1 As Chapter 3…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 20 – That Blood You Received from Me in Your Incarnation
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was a model of compassion for medieval Christians. The depiction of her standing at the foot of the Cross, seeing the suffering and death of her Son, was certainly central to such devotion. And what happened between Mother and Son on Calvary came to be explained as Jesus suffering his…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 19 – A Kind Compassion
Julian begins the last section of Chapter 3 with the words: “Then cam sodenly to my mind that I should desire the second wound of our lords gifte and of his grace.” 1 These words refer back to the end of Chapter 2, when Julian prays for “thre woundes,” which, in the Short Text, she…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 18 – Compassion Means to ‘To Share Others’ Sufferings
As was indicated in the last reflection, when Henri de Lubac began his study of Buddhism, he was gifted with a copy of the Indian Buddhist text, Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, which is attributed to Asanga (c. 320-390), by his friend Abbe Jules Monchanin (1895-1957). 1 In his reflective writings, Pere de Lubac describes the occasion on which…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 