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Date Posted: 21:45:22 09/05/01 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Lives of Anchoresses

"The Anchoress Julian of Norwich was born in late 1342, and may have lived well into the fifteenth century, dying around 1412. We know very few details about her life; in fact, we do not know even know her real name. At some point in her life she became an anchoress -- a vowed solitary who lived a life devoted to prayer and meditation, confined to a cell adjoining a church. In her case, Julian's cell adjoined the church of St. Julian in Norwich, from which we get her pseudonym. Virtually nothing is known about her aside from what she writes -- and she reveals little about herself, preferring instead to talk about her "courteous" God."

"We do know that when she was 30, in May 1373, she became deathly ill, and while on her supposed deathbed she received a series of vivid, profound visions or "showings" -- sixteen visions in which God's love was revealed to her. Julian is best known for her optimism and also for her repeated insistence of naming both God and Christ as "mother." Her theology of the motherhood of God is an anticipation of, and inspiration for, much creative theological and spiritual thought today."

Click Here: Julian of Norwich

An Anchorhold

"An anchorhold is the residence of an anchoress. An anchoress is a person living a solitary life of prayer and contemplation. The one who maintains this site lives a life of solitude and prayer in the world. This site is the window of my cell to all who seek life, hope, truth, the spiritual and meaning in their lives."

"Peace is not just the absence of violence. Peace encompasses hope, life, trust, being open, communicating, listening, compassion, risking the comfortable and familiar, venturing into the unknown and into the unknowable. Peace is not saying but if only ... Peace is saying yes. Peace is opening your hand to all you meet on the way.

Peace is living yes.

Peace is breathing yes.

Peace is being peace.

Peace is compassionate doing."

The Anchorhold: Website of An Anchoress

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