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This Thursday, November 7: You are invited

Writer: Marie LaureMarie Laure
Nov 4, 20241 min read

to meet a Fourteenth century mystic, virtually speaking. Who was Julian?


Julian of Norwich was a mystic and an author. She is the first woman known to have written a book in English! She, of course, would have known nothing about "Zoom" meetings, but in the Twenty-first century we can meet and talk about her from anywhere around the world. Join me Thursday, November 7 from wherever you are at 3 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

for a thirty-minute session to hear about an upcoming pilgrimage to Norwich, UK in May, 2025.




THIS IS THE ZOOM LINK


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Julian is a unique mystical woman for our times making this the perfect pilgrimage for twenty-first century pilgrims. Julian of Norwich lived from age 50 in a small anchorage, a room attached to St. Julian’s Church in the heart of Norwich, now a UNESCO City of Literature. The pilgrimage will coincide with Julian’s Feast Day, May 8.


What you can expect on the one week pilgrimage, May 5 - 12:

  • We will stay next door to the anchorage at All Hallows Guest House. Breakfast included.

  • Daily Mass in the Anchorage.

  • Julian presentations by Friends of Julian plus keynote speaker.

  • Time for writing and sharing reflections daily.

  • Day trip to the British Library to see the 16th century manuscripts.

  • Attend Evensong in Norwich Cathedral.

  • Tour of Norwich Cathedral Library.

  • Visit University of East Anglia Sainsbury Center of Art






 
 
 

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​Six Stages of Pilgrimage:

  • The Call:

  • The opening clarion of any spiritual journey. Often in the form of a feeling or some vague yearning, a fundamental human desire: finding meaning in an overscheduled world somehow requires leaving behind our daily obligations. Sameness is the enemy of spirituality.

  • The Separation:

  • Pilgrimage, by its very nature, undoes certainty. It rejects the safe and familiar. It asserts that one is freer when one frees oneself from daily obligations of family, work, and community, but also the obligations of science, reason, and technology.

  • The Journey:

  • The backbone of a sacred journey is the pain and sacrifice of the journey itself.  This personal sacrifice enhances the experience; it also elevates the sense of community one develops along the way.

  • The Contemplation:

  • Some pilgrimages go the direct route, right to the center of the holy of holies, directly to the heart of the matter. Others take a more indirect route, circling around the outside of the sacred place, transforming the physical journey into a spiritual path of contemplation like walking a labyrinth.

  • The Encounter:

  • After all the toil and trouble, after all the sunburn and swelling and blisters, after all the anticipation and expectation comes the approach, the sighting. The encounter is the climax of the journey, the moment when the traveler attempts to slide through a thin veil where humans live in concert with the Creator.

  • The Completion and Return:

  • At the culmination of the journey, the pilgrim returns home only to discover that meaning they sought lies in the familiar of one's own world. "Seeing the place for the first time . . ."

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