Men's clothing with coat of arms here! Who reveals it to you? Rheims, and contributes weekly to Truth and Charity. I just stumbled upon this in time of need -- how very comforting, and thank you for posting :)And thank you, Carl, for a lovely addendum. All shall be well. . 300 years later Jane Ward Leade, another English mystic born near Julian, spoke too of the love of the God which is so great that even the devils shall be saved. I believe she refers to the apocatastasis, the tikkun olam, the restoration of all things to divine plan. I am not a Christian, and do not feel that these words are only for Christians....they are for us all to hear the truth that all things pass in time and eventually everything heals. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. ( Log Out / What did He reveal to you? They’ve, collectively, been doing their work on me and I’m slowly working my way out of the depths again. All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.. – Julian of Norwich Patrick Comerford Over the last few weeks, as I faced up to personal difficulties, and continue to wrestle with them, my mind keeps returning to those reassuring words from Dame Julian of Norwich: “I will not, if I can help it, shin up either the feathery or the prickly tree. Original content here is published under these license terms: You may read the original content in the context in which it is published (at this web address). S. Eliot, Four Quartets : “Little Gidding” I don’t have time to get into all the whys and wherefores, at the moment (perhaps I will in another post), but I do think that C. S. Lewis is definitely referencing more of “Little Gidding” than just this one little line. I was feeling especially sad and miserable, last night, when this line suddenly popped into my head, along with a vague recollection of what it represents in both C. S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed and T. S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding” in Four Quartets. All manner of thing shall be well“ )Claire F, Hebrew's 11 v1"Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of that not yet seen" The quote from Dame Julian of Norwich "All shall be well" embraces those very sentiments. For love. All a drink of cool water for this one. A Possible Series.). Only Christ offers us hope in that place; and a great hope it is. Love. Remain in this, and you will know more of the same.”. No other copying or use is permitted without written agreement from the author. I even didn’t know Julian could be a woman’s name. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. After some time first practicing Zen meditation and now Christian contemplative prayer, my understanding has become that she was passing on her learning of the fact that no matter how evil things seem to be on this earthly plane, in the ultimate sense there really are no problems. Thank you. ‘all shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well,’ Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love. I’ve also reread “Little Gidding” and have started rereading A Grief Observed. Again, it’s one of those things of which I feel like I’ve only begun to scratch the surface of, when it comes to it’s depth and significance. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Actually, I just looked it up, this is what Wikipedia says: “Very little is known about Julian’s life. But to anyone coming across them they don't seem to really understand what seemed like a puzzle of words to them. At a time when many saw the plague as God’s punishment for human sin, Julian instead insisted that God’s love for everyone had never wavered – and all would be well. Julian received a series of fifteen visions of the suffering of Christ and immediately after wrote them down in a short text.