Revelations of Divine Love
Translated by Grace Warrack
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A Revelation of Love—in Sixteen Shewings
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In May 1373, at thirty and a half and thought to be dying, a woman of Norwich saw sixteen “shewings” of the love of God as she gazed on a crucifix. She recovered, became an anchoress walled into a cell at St Julian’s church, and spent twenty years and more pondering what she had seen. This is the fruit: the first book in English known to have been written by a woman. Here are the hazel-nut that holds all that is made, the Lord and the servant, Jesus our Mother, and the promise she was given for a world full of sin and sorrow — “all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
This is a Revelation of Love that Jesus Christ, our endless bliss, made in Sixteen Shewings, or Revelations particular. Of the which the First is of His precious crowning with thorns; and therewith was comprehended and specified the Trinity, with the Incarnation, and unity betwixt God and man's soul; with many fair shewings of endless wisdom and teachings of love: in which all the Shewings…
Contents
- 1 A Revelation of Love—in Sixteen Shewings 3 min
- 2 A simple creature unlettered.—Which creature afore desired three gifts of God 2 min
- 3 I desired to suffer with Him 3 min
- 4 I saw ... as it were in the time of His Passion.... And in the same Shewing suddenly the Trinity filled my heart with utmost joy 2 min
- 5 God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself;—only in Thee I have all 3 min
- 6 The Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need 4 min
- 7 The Shewing is not other than of faith, nor less nor more 4 min
- 8 In all this I was greatly stirred in charity to my fellow-Christians that they might see and know the same that I saw 3 min
- 9 If I look singularly to myself, I am right nought 2 min
- 10 God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted 6 min
- 11 All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all — Sin is no deed 3 min
- 12 The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plenteous 2 min
- 13 The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ 3 min
- 14 The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time 2 min
- 15 It is not God's will that we follow the feeling of pains in sorrow and mourning for them 2 min
- 16 A Part of His Passion 2 min
- 17 How might any pain be more to me than to see Him that is all my life, and all my bliss, and all my joy suffer? 4 min
- 18 When He was in pain, we were in pain 2 min
- 19 Thus was I learned to choose Jesus for my Heaven, whom I saw only in pain at that time 3 min
- 20 For every man's sin that shall be saved He suffered, and every man's sorrow and desolation He saw, and sorrowed for Kinship and Love 2 min
- 21 We be now with Him in His Pains and His Passion, dying 2 min
- 22 The Love that made Him to suffer passeth so far all His Pains as Heaven is above Earth 4 min
- 23 The Glad Giver — All the Trinity wrought in the Passion of Jesus Christ 3 min
- 24 Our Lord looked unto His [wounded] Side, and beheld, rejoicing.... Lo! how I loved thee 2 min
- 25 I wot well that thou wouldst see my blessed Mother.... — Wilt thou see in her how thou art loved? 3 min
- 26 It is I, it is I 1 min
- 27 Sin is behovable; but all shall be well 3 min
- 28 Each brotherly compassion that man hath on his fellow Christians, with charity, it is Christ in him 2 min
- 29 How could all be well, for the great harm that is come by sin to the creature? 1 min
- 30 Two parts of Truth: the part that is open: our Saviour and our salvation;—and the part that is hid and shut up from us: all beside our salvation 2 min
- 31 The Spiritual Thirst (which was in Him from without beginning) is desire in Him as long as we be in need, drawing us up to His Bliss 3 min
- 32 That Great Deed ordained ... by which our Lord God shall make all things well 4 min
- 33 It is God's will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be 2 min
- 34 All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us 2 min
- 35 I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved.... It is more worship to God to behold Him in all than in any special thing 3 min
- 36 My sin shall not hinder His Goodness working 4 min
- 37 In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall 2 min
- 38 In Heaven “the token of sin is turned to worship.”—Examples thereof 2 min
- 39 Sin is the sharpest scourge.... By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing towards God we are made worthy 3 min
- 40 True love teacheth us that we should hate sin only for love 3 min
- 41 I am the Ground of thy beseeching — Also to prayer belongeth thanking 4 min
- 42 Prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with accordant longing and sure trust 4 min
- 43 Prayer uniteth the soul to God 4 min
- 44 God is endless, sovereign Truth,—Wisdom,—Love, not-made; and man's Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made 1 min
- 45 All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to Heaven are comprehended in these two judgments 3 min
- 46 It is needful to see and to know that we are sinners: wherefore we deserve pain and wrath 3 min
- 47 We fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our self, and then find we no feeling of right,—nought but contrariness that is in our self 3 min
- 48 I beheld the property of Mercy, and I beheld the property of Grace: which have two manners of working in one love 3 min
- 49 Where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath hath no place 3 min
- 50 The blame of our sin continually hangeth upon us — In the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be dead 3 min
- 51 He is the Head, and we be His members — Therefore our Father nor may nor will more blame assign to us than to His own Son, precious and worthy Christ 21 min
- 52 We have now matter of mourning: for our sin is cause of Christ's pains; and we have, lastingly, matter of joy: for endless love made Him to suffer 6 min
- 53 Ere that He made us He loved us, and when we were made we loved Him 4 min
- 54 Faith is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God is in us: Whom we see not 2 min
- 55 Christ is our Way — Mankind shall be restored from double death 4 min
- 56 God is nearer to us than our own soul — We can never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own Soul 4 min
- 57 In Christ our two natures are united 4 min
- 58 The high Might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great Love of the Trinity is our Lord 4 min
- 59 Jesus Christ that doeth Good against evil is our Very Mother 3 min
- 60 The Kind, loving, Mother 4 min
- 61 By the assay of this falling we shall have an high marvellous knowing of Love in God, without end 5 min
- 62 God is Very Father and Very Mother of Nature 2 min
- 63 “As verily as sin is unclean, so verily is it unkind”—a disease or monstrous thing against nature. “He shall heal us full fair.” 3 min
- 64 Thou shalt come up above — A very fair creature, a little Child—nimble and lively, whiter than lily 4 min
- 65 The Charity of God maketh in us such a unity that, when it is truly seen, no man can part himself from other 3 min
- 66 All was closed, and I saw no more 4 min
- 67 The place that Jesus taketh in our soul He shall never remove from, without end:—for in us His homliest home and His endless dwelling 2 min
- 68 He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome 2 min
- 69 I was delivered from the Enemy by the virtue of Christ's Passion 2 min
- 70 Above the Faith is no goodness kept in this life, as to my sight, and beneath the Faith is no help of soul; but in the Faith, there willeth the Lord that we keep us 3 min
- 71 Three manners of looking seen in our Lord's Countenance 2 min
- 72 As long as we be meddling with any part of sin we shall never see clearly the Blissful Countenance of our Lord 4 min
- 73 Two manners of sickness that we have: impatience, or sloth;—despair, or mistrustful dread 3 min
- 74 There is no dread that fully pleaseth God in us but reverent dread 4 min
- 75 We shall see verily the cause of all things that He hath done; and evermore we shall see the cause of all things that He hath permitted 3 min
- 76 The soul that beholdeth the fair nature of our Lord Jesus, it hateth no hell but sin 3 min
- 77 Accuse not thyself overmuch, deeming that thy tribulation and thy woe is all thy fault 4 min
- 78 Though we be highly lifted up into contemplation by the special gift of our Lord, yet it is needful to us to have knowledge and sight of our sin and our feebleness 3 min
- 79 I was taught that I should see mine own sin, and not other men's sin except it may be for comfort and help of my fellow-Christians 3 min
- 80 Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all — Love suffereth never to be without Pity 3 min
- 81 God seeth all our living a penance: for nature-longing of our love is to Him a lasting penance in us — His love maketh Him to long 2 min
- 82 In falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love 3 min
- 83 Life, Love, and Light 1 min
- 84 Charity 1 min
- 85 Lord, blessed mayest Thou be, for it is thus: it is well 1 min
- 86 Love was our Lord's Meaning 2 min
- 87 Glossary 4 min
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