In 2023, I took on an ambitious challenge for my Lenten series: Daily reflections on the spirituality of Julian of Norwich, a late fourteenth-century nun whose theologically rich contemplation of a series of visions, known as The Revelation of Divine Love, or ‘the Showings‘, has become a classic of Christian spirituality:
Ash Wednesday – First Saturday in Lent
- A Posture of Faith: A Reflection of Ash Wednesday 2023 (Chapters 1-2)
- Everything that is Good (Reprise) (1-5)
- Nature and Grace are of One Accord (8, 49, 62-63)
- Our Daily Light (10)
First Sunday in Lent and following
- Strength against all Devils: A Reflection on Matthew 4.1-11 (4, 13, 19, 69-70)
- Sin is Nothing (11, 27, 61)
- Pain and Joy are One Love (15, 82)
- The Suffering of Love (20-22)
- “I Am He” (26)
- All Will Be Well (31-32, 34)
- Eyes in Front (33, 76)
Second Sunday in Lent and following
- Gifts of Love (10, 72)
- No Shame in Sin (36, 38, 77)
- God’s Work for Me (And for You) (35-36)
- Why, Then, Do We Sin? (37, 47)
- Abiding in Peace and Love (39, 54)
- A Matter of Perspective: On Love, Sin, and Repentance (40)
- The Foundation of Prayer (2, 41-42)
Third Sunday in Lent and following
- On God and Sin(ners) (46, 48)
- The Soul is Like God in Nature (43, 45)
- Created for Love (44)
- The Parable of the Servant (51, 54)
- A Mother’s Love (22, 52, 54, 57-61)
- Enclosed in Trinitarian Love (53-54)
- Knowing God and Knowing Self (56)
Fourth Sunday in Lent and following
- Light in the Dark (83-84)
- Hold Your Pains Lightly (64)
- Bound Together in Love (65)
- The Soul as Citadel (68)
- Six Words of Faith (70-71)
- On Spiritual Sickness (73-74)
- The Greatest Joy Save Himself (25, 57) (Feast of the Annunciation)
Fifth Sunday in Lent and following
- The Cart and the Horse (19)
- God’s Longing Love (31, 75, 78)
- On Paying Attention (78)
- For Mirth and Mourning (72, 79)
- On Authority (33, 80)
- The Light of Love, or, How to Please God (83-86)
- Love is the Meaning of It All (86)
Matthew Root 