20 August 2015, The Tablet

Spirtitual Readings


 
We ought to be overjoyed that God lives in our souls, and even more so that our souls live in God, for our souls are made to be God’s own residence, and the residence of the soul is God, who is uncreated. It is a most profound and wonderful thing to see and realise within ourselves that God, who made us, is living in our souls. It is something even more profound and marvelous to know within ourselves that our souls, which are created, live in the substance of God. Julian of Norwich In Consecrated Spirits, compiled by Felicity Leng (Paulist Press, 2011) To believe is to look beyond this world to God, and to obey is to look beyond this world to God; to believe is of the heart, and to obey is of the heart; to believe is not a solitary act, but a consistent habit of trust; and to obey i
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