With great delight, in celebration of the 650th anniversary of Julian’s shewings, two Julian scholars, Veronica Mary Rolf and Kerrie Hide,  share a heart dialogue with Julian’s visions, facilitated by Robyn Fitzgerald. To begin this three-hour immersion in Julian, Veronica offers an overview of Julian’s life and revelations, focusing on Julian’s mystical experience of the blessed Trinity and the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as well as her sublime theology of the unconditional love and mercy of God. Veronica will also delve into the deeper meaning of the most famous words associated with Julian: “All Shall be Well”

In the middle phase, Kerrie explores the beauty of Julian’s way of contemplation.  She beholds Julian’s ripening teachings about prayer, beginning in Julian’s earliest account of her shewings, drawing on the compilation of the Westminster text, and then tracing her teachings about how “prayer oneth the soule to God” in her longer manuscript.  Together, as a communion, we enter into Julian’s way of beholding, explore how our deepest wounds become the ground of oneing, and participate in the ground of the enfolding, enclosing, beclosing, oneing of Love’s Trinity.

Guided by Julian, in the final hour, Veronica, Kerrie, and Robyn engage in dialogue as beholding, as contemplation.  They seek to enact the deep meaning of dialogue as dia-logos, “heart conversation through the Word”.  Veronica and Kerrie behold and speak from the ground of the heart, from the indwelling Word, who is flowing through, releasing the wisdom of mutual indwelling.  Thus, from the ground of immersion in the flow of oneing love, as “trewe loverse”, this dialogue will illuminate in ever new ways Julian’s wisdom for today and the evolving future.

This morning is supported by The Friends of Julian of Norwich as part of their year long celebrations of the 650th anniversary of Julian’s shewings.