There too I saw these same four colours, though previously they had been, as I had seen, fresh, red, and lovely. For me his passion was shown primarily through his blessed face, and particularly by his lips. Then, dead, it turned a blue colour, gradually changing to a browny blue, as the flesh continued to die. It became more pale, deathly, and lifeless. I saw his dear face, dry, bloodless, and pallid with death. The eighth revelation: the pitiful suffering of Christ as he dies his discoloured face, and dried-up bodyġ6 It was after this that Christ showed me something of his passion near the time of his dying. The first revelations were of Christ’s Passion, and we shall today read about her eighth revelation. Immediately following this, she received 16 revelations of God’s great love. Lady Julian had asked “three gifts from God: (i) to understand his passion (ii) to suffer physically while still a young woman of thirty and (iii) to have as God’s gift three wounds.” (63) The three wounds she desired were “the wound of true contrition, the wound of genuine compassion, and the wound of sincere longing for God.” (64) On May 8, 1373, at age 31, being on the point of death, she received the last rites. Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Loveįrom Clifton Wolters’ translation (London: Penguin, 1966)
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