All Shall Be Well: Trusting to Hope in Turbulent Times

Advent with Lady Julian Week 1

The inscription on the memorial inside Lady Julian’s cell. The memorial was originally built on the southern outside wall of the church and it survived the bombing in 1942. Photograph by author.

Revelations of Divine Love: Chapters 2, 5-6 (pp. 40-42, 45-48)

Isaiah 64:1-9

My references to Julian’s Revelations are from the Oxford Edition if you want to purchase a copy and read the context. 

The room itself had presence. There was a hush that settled over even my children as we descended the few steps down from the floor of the nave into the cell where Lady Julian had once lived. The thick stone walls contributed to it, but there was more. The weight of history and prayer could be felt. This wasn’t even the original room where Julian had lived. Her cell and the church had been destroyed by a German bomb in 1942. The bomb fell directly into the tower whose three-foot thick walls–already 800 years old–absorbed the blast. The church was destroyed but the neighborhood remained. The church was r…