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Ep 13 – The Anent Reflections, Part One – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Cropped-kris_mcgregor-300.jpg] ALL SHALL BE WELL: A JOURNEY THROUGH JULIAN OF NORWICH’S REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE WITH KRIS MCGREGOR EPISODE 13: THE ANENT REFLECTIONS, PART ONE — MERCY, WRATH, AND PEACE Summary: In this episode, we begin Julian of Norwich’s Anent reflections, a meditative pause in her Revelations of Divine Love. Instead of recounting new visions, Julian turns inward to contemplate the truths already revealed to her. These reflections open a contemplative space filled with theology and spiritual insight, helping us see what God has shown her more clearly. We explore Julian’s teaching on God as unchanging Truth, Wisdom, and Love, and how our souls are created to share in those very attributes. We also reflect on her striking claim that there is no wrath in God — only goodness and mercy. Julian teaches that our judgment is distorted by sin, but God’s gaze remains fixed on the soul as He created it, whole and beloved. Julian then introduces five inner movements of the soul: enjoying, mourning, desire, dread, and sure hope. Each one reveals a layer of the soul’s journey with God and helps us understand how grace is at work, even in moments of struggle. Finally, we hear her deep assurance that God’s mercy never ceases. No matter how often we fail, fall, or fear, His gaze of love never turns away. In God’s sight, the soul that belongs to Him has never died, nor ever shall. ---------------------------------------- For other episodes in this series visit: All Shall Be Well: A Journey Through Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love with Kris McGregor [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/all-shall-be-well-a-journey-through-julian-of-norwichs-revelations-of-divine-love-with-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- FULL JULIAN OF NORWICH QUOTATIONS USED IN EPISODE 13:[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Julian_of_Norwich-193x300.jpg] From Revelations of Divine Love, Long Text, Chapters 41-43, trans. Grace Warrack, Methuen & Co., 1901 (PDF edition [https://www.discerninghearts.com/PDF/revelations.pdf]). TRUTH, WISDOM, AND LOVE > “Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is, a holy marvellous delight in God; which is Love. Where Truth and Wisdom are verily, there is Love verily, coming of them both. And all of God’s making: for He is endless sovereign Truth, endless sovereign Wisdom, endless sovereign Love, unmade; and man’s Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made, and evermore it doeth that it was made for: it seeth God, it beholdeth God, and it loveth God. Whereof God enjoyeth in the creature; and the creature in God, endlessly marvelling.” (Ch. 44) GOD’S JUDGMENT AND OURS > GOD deemeth us [looking] upon our Nature-Substance, which is ever kept one in Him, whole and safe without end: and this doom is [because] of His rightfulness [in the which it is made and kept]. And man judgeth [looking] upon our changeable Sense-soul, which seemeth now one [thing], now other,—according as it taketh of the [higher or lower] parts,—and [is that which] showeth outward. And this wisdom [of man’s judgment] is mingled [because of the diverse things it beholdeth]. For sometimes it is good and easy, and sometimes it is hard and grievous. And in as much as it is good and easy it belongeth to the rightfulness; and in as much as it is hard and grievous [by reason of the sin beheld, which sheweth in our Sense-soul,] our good Lord Jesus reformeth it by [the working in our Sense-soul of] mercy and grace through the virtue of His blessed Passion, and so bringeth it to the rightfulness.” (Ch.45) GOD IS NOT WROTH > “For I saw truly that it is against the property of His Might to be wroth, and against the property of His Wisdom, and against the property of His Goodness. God is the Goodness that may not be wroth, for He is not [other] but Goodness: our soul is oned to Him, unchangeable Goodness, and between God and our soul is neither wrath nor forgiveness in His sight. For our soul is so fully oned to God of His own Goodness that between God and our soul may be right nought.” (Ch. 46) THE FIVE WORKINGS OF THE SOUL > “For I felt in me five manner of workings, which be these: Enjoying, mourning, desire, dread, and sure hope. Enjoying: for God gave me understanding and knowing that it was Himself that I saw; mourning: and that was for failing; desire: and that was I might see Him ever more and more, understanding and knowing that we shall never have full rest till we see Him verily and clearly in heaven; dread was: for it seemed to me in all that time that that sight should fail, and I be left to myself; sure hope was in the endless love: that I saw I should be kept by His mercy and brought to His bliss. And the joying in His sight with this sure hope of His merciful keeping made me to have feeling and comfort so that mourning and dread were not greatly painful.”(Ch. 47) THE WORKING OF MERCY > “Mercy is a sweet gracious working in love, mingled with plenteous pity: for mercy worketh in keeping us, and mercy worketh turning to us all things to good. Mercy, by love, suffereth us to fail in measure and in as much as we fail, in so much we fall; and in as much as we fall, in so much we die: for it needs must be that we die in so much as we fail of the sight and feeling of God that is our life. Our failing is dreadful, our falling is shameful, and our dying is sorrowful: but in all this the sweet eye of pity and love is lifted never off us, nor the working of mercy ceaseth.” (Ch. 48) WHERE GOD APPEARS, WRATH HAS NO PLACE > “For I saw full surely that where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken and wrath hath no place. For I saw no manner of wrath in God, neither for short time nor for long; for in sooth, as to my sight, if God might be wroth for an instant, we should never have life nor place nor being. For as verily as we have our being of the endless Might of God and of the endless Wisdom and of the endless Goodness, so verily we have our keeping in the endless Might of God, in the endless Wisdom, and in the endless Goodness. For though we feel in ourselves, frail wretches, debates and strifes, yet are we all-mannerful enclosed in the mildness of God and in His meekness, in His benignity and in His graciousness. For I saw full surely that all our endless friendship, our place, our life and our being, is in God.” (Ch. 49) MERCY AND FORGIVENESS: THE SOUL NEVER DIES > AND in this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part, we be often dead as to man’s doom in earth; but in the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be.” ” (Ch. 50)   ---------------------------------------- SCRIPTURE FEATURED (Translations used: Revised Standard Version [RSV-CE] ) * (Zephaniah 3:17) “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” *  (1 Samuel 16:7) “Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” * (James 1:17) “Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” * (Exodus 34:6–7) “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty.” *  (1 Peter 1:8–9) “Though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy. As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls.” * (Psalm 42:1–2) “As a hart (deer) longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” * (2 Corinthians 4:7) “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.” *  (1 Thessalonians 5:16–18) “Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” * (Hebrews 10:23) “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.” * (Luke 1:54–55) “He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity for ever.” * (Lamentations 3:22–23) “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.” *  (Ephesians 2:14) “For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility.” * (John 11:25–26) “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.” ---------------------------------------- CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH > “The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for.” (CCC 27) > > > “The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter, because as image of God we live in relation: it is the place of covenant.” (CCC 2563) > > > “God is infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.” (CCC 1) > > > > > > > “The Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God’s mercy to sinners.” (CCC 1846) > “There are no limits to the mercy of God.” (CCC 1864) > “By revealing himself to Moses, God reveals that he is rich in mercy and fidelity. God is Love. His very being is Love. By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange.” (CCC 214, 221) > > > “By his death Christ liberates us from sin; by his Resurrection, he opens for us the way to a new life.” (CCC 654) ---------------------------------------- TEACHINGS OF THE SAINTS > St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: > > > “The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must go out of oneself; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.” (Essays on Woman, “The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace”) > St. John of the Cross: > > > “In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.” (Sayings of Light and Love, 64) > > > St. Augustine of Hippo: > > > “The wrath of God is not a disturbed feeling of His mind, but a judgment by which punishment is inflicted upon sin.” (City of God, XV.25) > > > > > > > St. John Chrysostom: > > > “When you hear that God is angry in the Scriptures, do not suppose that God is subject to some passion. Such expressions are condescensions, teaching us that His acts of punishment are the consequence of our sins.”(Homilies on Genesis, 6:6) > > > > > > > > > > St. Faustina Kowalska: > > > “Let the sinner not be afraid to approach Me. The flames of mercy are burning Me—clamoring to be spent; I want to pour them out upon these souls.” (Diary, 50) > > > > > > > St. Teresa of Ávila: > > > “Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.” (Poem: Nada te turbe) > St. Gregory of Nyssa: > > > “For it is not when we begin to exist, but when we are joined to God, that we truly live.” (On the Soul and the Resurrection) ---------------------------------------- REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR PRAYER 1. 1. Julian insists that wrath has no place in God. How does this challenge the way you may have imagined His response to your sins or failings? 2. She teaches that mercy never ceases and that God’s gaze of love never leaves us. Where in your life do you most need to trust this truth? 3. Julian ends by assuring us that in God’s sight, the soul He loves never dies. How might this hope shape the way you endure trials and sorrow in this life? ---------------------------------------- CLOSING PRAYER Lord Jesus Christ, You who are endless Truth, Wisdom, and Love, draw us into Your peace, where wrath has no place and mercy never ceases. When we fail, lift us with Your pity; when we fall, keep us in Your forgiveness; when we fear death, remind us that in You we live forever. Let us rest in Your unchanging goodness, until the day we see You face to face and rejoice with You in the fullness of love. Amen. ---------------------------------------- © Discerning Hearts. 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Ep 12 – The 14th Shewing – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Cropped-kris_mcgregor-300.jpg] ALL SHALL BE WELL: A JOURNEY THROUGH JULIAN OF NORWICH’S REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE WITH KRIS MCGREGOR EPISODE 12: THE FOURTEENTH SHEWING — PRAYER, TRUST, AND UNION WITH GOD Summary: In this episode, Julian of Norwich reveals the mystery of prayer as the soul’s union with God. She shows that Christ Himself is the ground of every prayer, the One who awakens the desire to pray, gives the words we offer, and delights to receive them. Prayer is not about changing God, who is always love, but about allowing ourselves to be changed, drawn more deeply into His mercy and will. Julian teaches that even when prayer feels dry or unanswered, it remains precious to God, for it rests in His eternal goodness. Whether in need or in gratitude, prayer unites us to Christ and becomes a share in His eternal joy ---------------------------------------- For other episodes in this series visit: All Shall Be Well: A Journey Through Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love with Kris McGregor [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/all-shall-be-well-a-journey-through-julian-of-norwichs-revelations-of-divine-love-with-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- FULL JULIAN OF NORWICH QUOTATIONS USED IN EPISODE 11:[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Julian_of_Norwich-193x300.jpg] From Revelations of Divine Love, Long Text, Chapters 41-43, trans. Grace Warrack, Methuen & Co., 1901 (PDF edition [https://www.discerninghearts.com/PDF/revelations.pdf]). GOD THE GROUND OF OUR PRAYER > “AFTER this our Lord shewed concerning Prayer. In which Shewing I see two conditions in our Lord’s signifying: one is rightfulness, another is sure trust. But yet oftentimes our trust is not full: for we are not sure that God heareth us, as we think because of our unworthiness, and because we feel right nought, (for we are as barren and dry oftentimes after our prayers as we were afore); and this, in our feeling our folly, is cause of our weakness. For thus have I felt in myself. > > > And all this brought our Lord suddenly to my mind, and shewed these words, and said: I am Ground of thy beseeching: first it is my will that thou have it; and after, I make thee to will it; and after, I make thee to beseech it and thou beseechest it. How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseeching?” > > (Ch. 41) > > > > > > “Full glad and merry is our Lord of our prayer; and He looketh thereafter and He willeth to have it because with His grace He maketh us like to Himself in condition as we are in kind: and so is His blissful will. Therefore He saith thus: Pray inwardly, though thee thinketh it savour thee not: for it is profitable, though thou feel not, though thou see nought; yea, though thou think thou canst not. For in dryness and in barrenness, in sickness and in feebleness, then is thy prayer well-pleasant to me, though thee thinketh it savour thee nought but little. And so is all thy believing prayer in my sight. For the meed and the endless thanks that He will give us, therefor He is covetous to have us pray continually in His sight.” (Ch. 41) > > > “And also to prayer belongeth thanking. Thanking is a true inward knowing, with great reverence and lovely dread turning ourselves with all our mights unto the working that our good Lord stirreth us to, enjoying and thanking inwardly. And sometimes, for plenteousness it breaketh out with voice, and saith: Good Lord, I thank Thee! Blessed mayst Thou be! And sometime when the heart is dry and feeleth not, or else by temptation of our enemy,—then it is driven by reason and by grace to cry upon our Lord with voice, rehearing His blessed Passion and His great Goodness; and the virtue of our Lord’s word turneth into the soul and quickeneth the heart and entereth it by His grace into true working, and maketh it pray right blissfully. And truly to enjoy our Lord, it is a full blissful thanking in His sight.” (Ch. 41) THE TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF PRAYER > “OUR Lord God willeth that we have true understanding, and specially in three things that belong to our prayer. The first is: by whom and how that our prayer springeth. By whom, He sheweth when He saith: I am [the] Ground; and how, by His Goodness: for He saith first: It is my will. The second is: in what manner and how we should use our prayer; and that is that our will be turned unto the will of our Lord, enjoying: and so meaneth He when He saith: I make thee to will it. The third is that we should know the fruit and the end of our prayers: that is, that we be oned and like to our Lord in all things; and to this intent and for this end was all this lovely lesson shewed. And He will help us, and we shall make it so as He saith Himself;—Blessed may He be!” (Ch. 41) > > > “For prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with welllonging and sure trust. Failing of our bliss that we be kindly ordained to, maketh us to long; true understanding and love, with sweet mind in our Saviour, graciously maketh us to trust. And in these two workings our Lord beholdeth us continually: for it is our due part, and His Goodness may no less assign to us. Thus it belongeth to us to do our diligence; and when we have done it, then shall us yet think that [it] is nought,—and sooth it is. But if we do as we can, and ask, in truth, for mercy and grace, all that faileth us we shall find in Him. And thus signifieth He where He saith: I am Ground of thy beseeching. And thus in this blessed word, with the Shewing, I saw a full overcoming against all our weakness and all our doubtful dreads.”(Ch. 42) PRAYER UNITES THE SOUL TO GOD > “PRAYER oneth the soul to God. For though the soul be ever like to God in kind and substance, restored by grace, it is often unlike in condition, by sin on man’s part. Then is prayer a witness that the soul willeth as God willeth; and it comforteth the conscience and enableth man to grace. And thus He teacheth us to pray, and mightily to trust that we shall have it. For He beholdeth us in love and would make us partners of His good deed, and therefore He stirreth us to pray for that which it pleaseth him to do. For which prayer and good will, that we have of His gift, He will reward us and give us endless meed.” (Ch. 43) > “For when the soul is tempested, troubled, and left to itself by unrest, then it is time to pray, for to make itself pliable and obedient to God. (But the soul by no manner of prayer maketh God pliant to it: for He is ever alike in love.) And this I saw: that what time we see needs wherefor we pray, then our good Lord followeth us, helping our desire; and when we of His special grace plainly behold Him, seeing none other needs, then we follow Him and He draweth us unto Him by love. For I saw and felt that His marvellous and plentiful Goodness fulfilleth all our powers; and therewith I saw that His continuant working in all manner of things is done so goodly, so wisely, and so mightily, that it overpasseth all our imagining, and all that we can ween and think; and then we can do no more but behold Him, enjoying, with an high, mighty desire to be all oned unto Him,—centred to His dwelling,—and enjoy in His loving and delight in His goodness.” (Ch. 43) ---------------------------------------- SCRIPTURE FEATURED (Translations used: Revised Standard Version [RSV-CE] ) * (Romans 8:26) “The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.” *  (1 Thessalonians 5:16–18) “Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” * (Romans 12:12) “Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” * (Psalm 46:10) “Be still, and know that I am God.” ---------------------------------------- CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH > “Prayer is a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. It is the living relationship of the children of God with their Father who is good beyond measure, with his Son Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Spirit.” (CCC 258) > > > “Every joy and suffering, every event and need can become the matter for thanksgiving which, sharing in that of Christ, should fill one’s whole life: ‘Give thanks in all circumstances.’” (CCC 2648) > > > “Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God. But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or ‘out of the depths’ of a humble and contrite heart? He who humbles himself will be exalted. Humility is the foundation of prayer.” (CCC 2559) > > > > “The Holy Spirit, the artisan of God’s works, teaches us to pray in hope. Conversely, prayer nourishes hope.”(CCC 2657) > “Prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us at every moment. But we tend to forget him who is our life and our all.”  (CCC 2697) > “Contemplative prayer is silence, the ‘symbol of the world to come’ or ‘silent love.’ Words in this kind of prayer are not speeches; they are like kindling that feeds the fire of love. In this silence, unbearable to the ‘outer’ man, the Father speaks to us his incarnate Word, who suffered, died, and rose; in this silence the Spirit of adoption enables us to share in the prayer of Jesus.”(CCC 2717). ---------------------------------------- REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR PRAYER 1. 1. Julian teaches that Christ is the Ground of our prayer, the One who begins every petition. How does this change the way you see your own prayer — especially in times of dryness or discouragement? 2. She reminds us that God is “full glad and merry” in our prayer, even when it feels barren. Where in your life do you need to trust that your hidden, ordinary prayers are truly pleasing to Him? 3. Julian links prayer with thanksgiving, even in trials. How can you let gratitude shape your daily prayer, so that even weakness and suffering become occasions for praise? ---------------------------------------- CLOSING PRAYER Lord Jesus Christ, You who revealed to Julian that You are the Ground of our prayer, stir within us the desire to seek You always. When our hearts are dry or distracted, remind us that You delight in our prayer. When we feel weak, teach us to trust in Your strength. Draw us into thanksgiving, that every sigh and every song may rise to You in praise. Unite us to Yourself in love, until our prayer is fulfilled in the joy of seeing You face to face, where all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Amen. ---------------------------------------- © Discerning Hearts. 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Ep 11 – The 13th Shewing pt. 3 – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Cropped-kris_mcgregor-300.jpg] ALL SHALL BE WELL: A JOURNEY THROUGH JULIAN OF NORWICH’S REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE WITH KRIS MCGREGOR EPISODE 11: THE THIRTEENTH SHEWING (PART 3) — SIN, CONTRITION, AND THE TENDERNESS OF GOD’S LOVE Summary: In this episode, we are guided into a deeper into the closing chapters of the Thirteenth Shewing. Julian confronts the painful reality of sin, but also the astonishing way God transforms even our wounds into worship. She sees how contrition, compassion, and longing for God purify the soul and prepare it for heaven, and how shame is turned into joy. Julian insists there is no harder hell than sin itself, yet reminds us that Christ’s mercy always seeks to heal and restore. Through her visions, she teaches us to hate sin for love of God while endlessly loving the soul as God loves it. This episode concludes with Julian’s reassurance that we are kept securely in God’s mercy, called to live lives of repentance, prayer, and sacramental grace as we await the day when truly “all shall be well. ---------------------------------------- For other episodes in this series visit: All Shall Be Well: A Journey Through Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love with Kris McGregor [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/all-shall-be-well-a-journey-through-julian-of-norwichs-revelations-of-divine-love-with-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- FULL JULIAN OF NORWICH QUOTATIONS USED IN EPISODE 11:[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Julian_of_Norwich-193x300.jpg] From Revelations of Divine Love, Long Text, Chapters XXXVII-XL, trans. Grace Warrack, Methuen & Co., 1901 (PDF edition [https://www.discerninghearts.com/PDF/revelations.pdf]). THE UNIVERSALITY OF SIN AND THE TENDERNESS OF GOD > “GOD brought to my mind that I should sin. And for pleasance that I had in beholding of Him, I attended not readily to that shewing; and our Lord full mercifully abode, and gave me grace to attend. And this shewing I took singularly to myself; but by all the gracious comfort that followeth, as ye shall see, I was learned to take it for all mine even-Christians: all in general and nothing in special: though our Lord shewed me that I should sin, by me alone is understood all.”(Ch. 37) WHEN SIN IS TURNED TO WORSHIP > “Also God shewed that sin shall be no shame to man, but worship. For right as to every sin is answering a pain by truth, right so for every sin, to the same soul is given a bliss by love: right as diverse sins are punished with diverse pains according as they be grievous, right so shall they be rewarded with diverse joys in Heaven according as they have been painful and sorrowful to the soul in earth. For the soul that shall come to Heaven is precious to God, and the place so worshipful that the goodness of God suffereth never that soul to sin that shall come there without that the which sin shall be rewarded; and it is made known without end, and blissfully restored by overpassing worship.” (Ch. 38) THE THREE MEDICINES OF THE SOUL > “As long as we are in this life, what time that we by our folly turn us to the beholding of the reproved, tenderly our Lord God toucheth us and blissfully calleth us, saying in our soul: Let be all thy love, my dearworthy child: turn thee to me — I am enough to thee — and enjoy in thy Saviour and in thy salvation. And that this is our Lord’s working in us, I am sure the soul that hath understanding therein by grace shall see it and feel it. > And though it be so that this deed be truly taken for the general Man, yet it excludeth not the special. For what our good Lord will do by His poor creatures, it is now unknown to me.” (Ch. 39) HATING SIN, LOVING THE SOUL > “But now if any man or woman because of all this spiritual comfort that is aforesaid, be stirred by folly to say or to think: If this be true, then were it good to sin so as to have the more meed, or else to charge the less guilt to sin, beware of this stirring: for verily if it come it is untrue, and of the enemy of the same true love that teacheth us that we should hate sin only for love. I am sure by mine own feeling, the more that any kind soul seeth this in the courteous love of our Lord God, the lother he is to sin and the more he is ashamed. For if afore us were laid together all the pains in Hell and in Purgatory and in Earth, death and other, and by itself sin, we should rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain which is not sin. And to me was shewed no harder hell than sin. For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.” (Ch. 40) > “And [when] we give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean. As mighty and as wise as God is to save men, so willing He is. For Christ Himself is [the] ground of all the laws of Christian men, and He taught us to do good against ill: here may we see that He is Himself this charity, and doeth to us as He teacheth us to do. For He willeth that we be like Him in wholeness of endless love to ourself and to our even-Christians: no more than His love is broken to us for our sin, no more willeth He that our love be broken to ourself and to our even-Christians: but [that we] endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it. Then shall we hate sin like as God hateth it, and love the soul as God loveth it. And this word that He said is an endless comfort: I keep thee securely.” (Ch. 40) ---------------------------------------- SCRIPTURE FEATURED (Translations used: Revised Standard Version [RSV] ) * (1 John 1:8–9) “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” *  (Romans 5:20) “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” ---------------------------------------- CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH > “Sin is present in human history; any attempt to ignore it or to give this dark reality other names would be futile.” (CCC 386) > > > “To try to understand what sin is, one must first recognize the profound relation of man to God, for only in this relationship is the evil of sin unmasked in its true identity as humanity’s rejection of God and opposition to him, even as it continues to weigh heavy on human life and history.” (CCC 386) > > > “There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer.” (CCC 605) > > > > “Sin is an offense against God: ‘Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight.’ Sin sets itself against God’s love for us and turns our hearts away from it.” (CCC 1805) > “Those who approach the sacrament of Penance obtain pardon from God’s mercy for the offense committed against him, and are at the same time reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by their sins. This sacrament imparts to the sinner the love of God who reconciles.”  (CCC 1422) “The practice of all the virtues is animated and inspired by charity, which ‘binds everything together in perfect harmony.’ It is the form of the virtues; it articulates and orders them among themselves; it is the source and goal of their Christian practice.” (CCC 1827). ---------------------------------------- REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR PRAYER 1. 1. Julian tells us that sin is “no harder hell” than itself, yet God keeps us securely in His love. How does this shape the way you see your own struggles with sin? 2. She urges us to endlessly hate sin but endlessly love the soul. In your life, what does it mean to hold that balance in relationships with others and with yourself? 3. Julian’s witness is that mercy, compassion, and longing for God turn wounds into worship. Where do you see God already transforming sorrow into joy in your journey?? ---------------------------------------- CLOSING PRAYER Lord Jesus Christ, You who revealed to Julian that all shall be well, teach us to hate sin as You do, but to love the soul as You love. Grant us contrition to be cleansed, compassion to be made ready, and holy longing to be made worthy of heaven. Keep us securely in Your mercy, and let every wound be healed into worship. May we walk in the hope of Your promise, until we are one with You forever.  Amen. ---------------------------------------- © Discerning Hearts. All rights reserved.   The post Ep 11 – The 13th Shewing pt. 3 – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/ep-11-the-13th-shewing-pt-3-all-shall-be-well-w-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-catholic-podcasts/] appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts].

Ep 10 – The 13th Shewing pt. 2 – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Cropped-kris_mcgregor-300.jpg] ALL SHALL BE WELL: A JOURNEY THROUGH JULIAN OF NORWICH’S REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE WITH KRIS MCGREGOR EPISODE 10: THE THIRTEENTH SHEWING (PART 2) — GOD’S HIDDEN COUNSELS, HIS RIGHTFULNESS, AND HIS MERCY Summary: In this episode, we continue our exploration of Julian of Norwich’s Thirteenth Shewing, set against the vibrant faith of 14th-century Norwich. We consider the Church’s clear teaching on heaven, hell, and purgatory, and how Julian’s mystical visions always remained anchored in that truth. She reflects on the “great Secret” God keeps hidden until the appointed time and the truths He reveals through the Church, urging us to trust His timing. Julian then unfolds the harmony of God’s “Rightfulness” — His perfect justice and order — with His unfailing mercy that lifts us from our falls. Finally, she shows us how the Lord calls us tenderly back to Himself, saying, “I am enough to thee,” and how miracles, often preceded by trials, are given to strengthen our faith, increase our hope, and draw us deeper into His love. ---------------------------------------- For other episodes in this series visit: All Shall Be Well: A Journey Through Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love with Kris McGregor [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/all-shall-be-well-a-journey-through-julian-of-norwichs-revelations-of-divine-love-with-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- FULL JULIAN OF NORWICH QUOTATIONS USED IN EPISODE 10:[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Julian_of_Norwich-193x300.jpg] From Revelations of Divine Love, Long Text, Chapters XXXIII-XXXVI, trans. Grace Warrack, Methuen & Co., 1901 (PDF edition [https://www.discerninghearts.com/PDF/revelations.pdf]). HOLDING FAST TO THE FAITH > “I desired, as [far] as I durst, that I might have full sight of Hell and Purgatory. But it was not my meaning to make proof of anything that belongeth to the Faith: for I believed soothfastly that Hell and Purgatory is for the same end that Holy Church teacheth, but my meaning was that I might have seen, for learning in all things that belong to my Faith: whereby I might live the more to God’s worship and to my profit.”(Ch. 33) > > > “For though the Revelation was made of goodness in which was made little mention of evil, yet I was not drawn thereby from any point of the Faith that Holy Church teacheth me to believe. For I had sight of the Passion of Christ in diverse Shewings, the First, the Second, the Fifth, and the Eighth, wherein I had in part a feeling of the sorrow of our Lady, and of His true friends that saw Him in pain; but I saw not so properly specified the Jews that did Him to death. Notwithstanding, I knew in my Faith that they were accursed and condemned without end, saving those that converted, by grace.” (Ch. 33) GOD’S SECRETS AND OUR UNDERSTANDING > “Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great Secret [Counsel] with all the privy points that belong thereto: and these secret things He willeth we should know [as being, but as] hid until the time that He will clearly shew them to us. The other are the secret things that He willeth to make open and known to us; for He would have us understand that it is His will that we should know them. They are secrets to us not only for that He willeth that they be secrets to us, but they are secrets to us for our blindness and our ignorance; and thereof He hath great ruth, and therefore He will Himself make them more open to us, whereby we may know Him and love Him and cleave to Him. For all that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us: and [of] that is this [Shewing], with all the preaching and teaching of Holy Church.” (Ch. 34) GOD’S RIGHTFULNESS AND MERCY > “Rightfulness is that thing that is so good that [it] may not be better than it is. For God Himself is very Rightfulness, and all His works are done rightfully as they are ordained from without beginning by His high Might, His high Wisdom, His high Goodness. And right as He ordained unto the best, right so He worketh continually, and leadeth it to the same end; and He is ever full-pleased with Himself and with all His works.” (Ch. 35) > > > > > > > “And Mercy is a working that cometh of the goodness of God, and it shall last in working all along, as sin is suffered to pursue rightful souls. And when sin hath no longer leave to pursue, then shall the working of mercy cease, and then shall all be brought to rightfulness and therein stand without end. And by His sufferance we fall; and in His blissful Love with His Might and His Wisdom we are kept; and by mercy and grace we are raised to manifold more joys. > > > > > > > Thus in Rightfulness and Mercy He willeth to be known and loved, now and without end. And the soul that wisely beholdeth it in grace, it is well pleased with both, and endlessly enjoyeth.” (Ch. 35) GOD’S LOVING CALL AND THE GIFT OF MIRACLES > “As long as we are in this life, what time that we by our folly turn us to the beholding of the reproved, tenderly our Lord God toucheth us and blissfully calleth us, saying in our soul: Let be all thy love, my dearworthy child: turn thee to me — I am enough to thee — and enjoy in thy Saviour and in thy salvation. And that this is our Lord’s working in us, I am sure the soul that hath understanding therein by grace shall see it and feel it. > > > > > > And though it be so that this deed be truly taken for the general Man, yet it excludeth not the special. For what our good Lord will do by His poor creatures, it is now unknown to me.” (Ch. 36) > “He gave special understanding and teaching of working of miracles, as thus: — It is known that I have done miracles here afore, many and diverse, high and marvellous, worshipful and great. And so as I have done, I do now continually, and shall do in coming of time. > > > It is known that afore miracles come sorrow and anguish and tribulation; and that is for that we should know our own feebleness and our mischiefs that we are fallen in by sin, to meeken us and make us to dread God and cry for help and grace. Miracles come after that, and they come of the high Might, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, shewing His virtue and the joys of Heaven so far at it may be in this passing life: and that to strengthen our faith and to increase our hope, in charity. Wherefore it pleaseth Him to be known and worshipped in miracles. Then signifieth He thus: He willeth that we be not borne over low for sorrow and tempests that fall to us: for it hath ever so been afore miracle-coming.” (Ch. 36) ---------------------------------------- SCRIPTURE FEATURED (Translations used: Revised Standard Version [RSV] ) *  (1 Timothy 2:4, RSV) “This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” *  (John 16:12, RSV) “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” ---------------------------------------- CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH > “The Church, ‘the pillar and bulwark of the truth,’ faithfully guards ‘the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints’. She guards the memory of Christ’s words; it is she who from generation to generation hands on the apostles’ confession of faith. As a mother who teaches her children to speak and so to understand and communicate, the Church our Mother teaches us the language of faith in order to introduce us to the understanding and the life of faith.” (CCC 171, quoting 1 Timothy 3:15 and Jude 3) > > > > “Thanks to the assistance of the Holy Spirit, the understanding of both the realities and the words of the heritage of faith is able to grow in the life of the Church: > > ‘through the contemplation and study of believers who ponder these things in their hearts’; > > ‘from the intimate sense of spiritual realities which [believers] experience’; > > ‘from the preaching of those who have received, along with their right of succession in the episcopate, the sure charism of truth.’” > > > > “The last judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life… Then through his Son Jesus Christ he will pronounce the final word on all history.” (CCC 1039) > > > > > > > > > > “By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, ‘reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well.’ For ‘all are open and laid bare to his eyes,’ even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.” (CCC 302) > > > > > > > “The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent him. They invite belief in him.  To those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask.  So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father’s works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God. ” (CCC 548). ---------------------------------------- REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR PRAYER 1. How does Julian’s teaching on God’s “great Secret” encourage you to trust Him with unanswered questions in your life? 2. In what ways do you see God’s rightfulness and mercy working together in your own spiritual journey? 3. When distractions pull your heart away from God, how might you respond to His gentle invitation, “Turn thee to me—I am enough to thee”? 4. Have there been moments in your life when trials seemed to precede an unexpected grace or “miracle”? How did that shape your faith? ---------------------------------------- CLOSING PRAYER Lord Jesus Christ, You are our Rightfulness and our Mercy. In Your wisdom, You reveal what our hearts can bear, and in Your love, You keep hidden what must wait for eternity. Draw our hearts away from distractions, fix our gaze upon You, and prepare us to welcome Your miracles in Your time. Grant that we may live in the hope of Your promises, trusting that all shall be made well in You, who live and reign with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. Amen. ---------------------------------------- © Discerning Hearts. All rights reserved.   The post Ep 10 – The 13th Shewing pt. 2 – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/ep-10-the-13th-shewing-pt-2-all-shall-be-well-w-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-catholic-podcasts/] appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts].

Ep 9 – The 13th Shewing pt. 1 – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Cropped-kris_mcgregor-300.jpg] ALL SHALL BE WELL: A JOURNEY THROUGH JULIAN OF NORWICH’S REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE WITH KRIS MCGREGOR EPISODE 9: THE THIRTEENTH SHEWING (PART 1) — THE MYSTERY OF SIN AND THE ASSURANCE OF DIVINE LOVE Summary: In Episode 9 we begin with part 1 of the Thirteenth Shewing, Julian confronts the mystery of sin and the question that has echoed through every age: why did God allow it? Her desire for understanding is met not with explanation but with a word of divine assurance—”All shall be well.” This episode invites us into the mystery of redemptive hope, where God’s hidden work is not yet seen but fully underway.  This is the first of several episodes on Julian’s longest and most theologically rich revelation. ---------------------------------------- For other episodes in this series visit: All Shall Be Well: A Journey Through Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love with Kris McGregor [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/all-shall-be-well-a-journey-through-julian-of-norwichs-revelations-of-divine-love-with-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- FULL JULIAN OF NORWICH QUOTATIONS USED IN EPISODE 9:[https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Julian_of_Norwich-193x300.jpg] From Revelations of Divine Love, Long Text, Chapters XXVII-XXXI, trans. Grace Warrack, Methuen & Co., 1901 (PDF edition [https://www.discerninghearts.com/PDF/revelations.pdf]). THE MYSTERY OF SIN AND THE SURPASSING ASSURANCE OF CHRIST > “AFTER this the Lord brought to my mind the longing that I had to Him afore. And I saw that nothing letted me but sin. And so I looked, generally, upon us all, and methought: If sin had not been, we should all have been clean and like to our Lord, as He made us. > > > And thus, in my folly, afore this time often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted: for then, methought, all should have been well. This stirring [of mind] was much to be forsaken, but nevertheless mourning and sorrow I made therefor, without reason and discretion. > > > But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said:  It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” (Ch. 27) THE NATURE OF SIN, THE PURPOSE OF PAIN, AND THE CONSOLATION OF THE PASSION > “But I saw not sin: for I believe it hath no manner of substance nor no part of being, nor could it be known but by the pain it is cause of. > > And thus pain, it is something, as to my sight, for a time; for it purgeth, and maketh us to know ourselves and to ask mercy. For the Passion of our Lord is comfort to us against all this, and so is His blessed will.” (Ch. 27) > > > “And for the tender love that our good Lord hath to all that shall be saved, He comforteth readily and sweetly, signifying thus: It is sooth that sin is cause of all this pain; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner [of] thing shall be well. > > > These words were said full tenderly, showing no manner of blame to me nor to any that shall be saved. Then were it a great unkindness to blame or wonder on God for my sin, since He blameth not me for sin.”(Ch. 27) CHRIST’S COMPASSION AND THE GLORY TO COME > THUS I saw how Christ hath compassion on us for the cause of sin. And right as I was afore in the [Shewing of the] Passion of Christ fulfilled with pain and compassion, like so in this [sight] I was fulfilled, in part, with compassion of all mine even-Christians—for that well, well beloved people that shall be saved. For God’s servants, Holy Church, shall be shaken in sorrow and anguish, tribulation in this world, as men shake a cloth in the wind. > > > And as to this our Lord answered in this manner: A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.”(Ch. 28) > > > “And then I saw that each kind compassion that man hath on his even-Christians with charity, it is Christ in him. > > > That same noughting that was shewed in His Passion, it was shewed again here in this Compassion. Wherein were two manner of understandings in our Lord’s meaning. The one was the bliss that we are brought to, wherein He willeth that we rejoice. The other is for comfort in our pain: for He willeth that we perceive that it shall all be turned to worship and profit by virtue of His passion, that we perceive that we suffer not alone but with Him, and see Him to be our Ground, and that we see His pains and His noughting passeth so far all that we may suffer, that it may not be fully thought.” (Ch. 28) THE HIDDEN PART AND THE PEACE OF TRUSTING GOD > “The other [part] is hid and shut up from us: that is to say, all that is beside our salvation. For it is our Lord’s privy counsel, and it belongeth to the royal lordship of God to have His privy counsel in peace, and it belongeth to His servant, for obedience and reverence, not to learn wholly His counsel. Our Lord hath pity and compassion on us for that some creatures make themselves so busy therein; and I am sure if we knew how much we should please Him and ease ourselves by leaving it, we would. The saints that be in Heaven, they will to know nothing but that which our Lord willeth to shew them: and also their charity and their desire is ruled after the will of our Lord: and thus ought we to will, like to them. Then shall we nothing will nor desire but the will of our Lord, as they do: for we are all one in God’s seeing.” (Ch. 30) THE FIVEFOLD PROMISE OF THE TRINITY > “AND thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well. > > > > > > > In that He saith, I may, I understand [it] for the Father; and in that He saith, I can, I understand [it] for the Son; and where He saith, I will, I understand [it] for the Holy Ghost; and where He saith, I shall, I understand [it] for the unity of the blessed Trinity: three Persons and one Truth; and where He saith, Thou shalt see thyself, I understand the oneing of all mankind that shall be saved unto the blessed Trinity. And in these five words God willeth we be enclosed in rest and in peace.” (Ch. 31) THE GREAT DEED, THE MYSTERY OF SALVATION, AND THE FIDELITY OF GOD > “That there be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it seemeth to us that it were impossible that ever it should come to good end. And upon this we look, sorrowing and mourning therefor, so that we cannot resign us unto the blissful beholding of God as we should do. And the cause of this is that the use of our reason is now so blind, so low, and so simple, that we cannot know that high marvellous Wisdom, the Might and the Goodness of the blissful Trinity. And thus signifieth He when He saith: THOU SHALT SEE THYSELF if all manner of things shall be well. As if He said: Take now heed faithfully and trustingly, and at the last end thou shalt verily see it in fulness of joy.” (Ch. 32) > > > “And in this sight I marvelled greatly and beheld our Faith, marvelling thus: Our Faith is grounded in God’s word, and it belongeth to our Faith that we believe that God’s word shall be saved in all things; and one point of our Faith is that many creatures shall be condemned: as angels that fell out of Heaven for pride, which be now fiends; and man in earth that dieth out of the Faith of Holy Church… all these shall be condemned to hell without end, as Holy Church teacheth me to believe. And all this so standing, methought it was impossible that all manner of things should be well, as our Lord shewed in the same time.” (Ch. 32) > > > “And as to this I had no other answer in Shewing of our Lord God but this: That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well. Thus I was taught, by the grace of God, that I should steadfastly hold me in the Faith as I had aforehand understood, [and] therewith that I should firmly believe that all things shall be well, as our Lord shewed in the same time. For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall make all well that is not well. How it shall be done there is no creature beneath Christ that knoweth it, nor shall know it till it is done; according to the understanding that I took of our Lord’s meaning in this time.” (Ch. 32) ---------------------------------------- SCRIPTURE FEATURED (Translations used: Revised Standard Version [RSV] ) *  (Romans 5:20, RSV) “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.” *  (Romans 8:18, RSV) “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” *  (Galatians 2:20, RSV) “.It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” *  (2 Corinthians 1:5) “For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.” *  (Deuteronomy 29:29) “The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever.” *  (1 Timothy 2:4) “God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (also cited in CCC 1037) ---------------------------------------- CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH > “God permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it.” (CCC 311) > > > > > > “To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of ‘predestination’, he includes in it each person’s free response to his grace.” (CCC 600) > > > > > > > “The last judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life… Then through his Son Jesus Christ he will pronounce the final word on all history.” (CCC 1039) > > > > > > > “God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end.” (CCC 1037) > > > > > > “In everything God works for good with those who love him… and the greatest moral evil ever committed—the rejection and murder of God’s only Son—was permitted by God… in order to bring about his saving plan of redemption.” (CCC 312) ---------------------------------------- St. Thomas Aquinas: > “Evil is the privation of good, which belongs properly to the subject. Hence, it has no formal or specific nature of its own, but is rather the absence of some good.”— Summa Theologiae, I, q. 48, a. 1 > > > “Since every nature, as such, is good, evil cannot signify a particular nature or being, but only the privation of good in a being.”— Summa Theologiae, I, q. 48, a. 3 St. Augustine: > “And I beheld and saw that whatsoever is, is good. And that evil is not a substance; for if it were, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so be the chief good; or a corruptible substance, which, unless it were good, could not be corrupted. I saw that all that is corrupted is deprived of good.” Confessions, trans. E.B. Pusey, Book VII, Ch. 12 (sometimes labeled §16–17 in scholarly editions) > God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil to exist.” (Enchiridion, 11.3) ---------------------------------------- REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR PRAYER 1. When Julian says “Sin is behovable,” what does this suggest about God’s sovereignty even over human failure? 2. How does the repetition of “All shall be well” speak differently to your heart each time you hear it? 3. Have you ever mourned over suffering or evil in the world and struggled to believe God could bring good from it? 4. In what ways might we try to “understand” mysteries that are instead meant to be trusted? 5. What role does humility play in receiving a truth that our reason cannot yet grasp? ---------------------------------------- CLOSING PRAYER  O Lord of all wisdom and mercy, You who know the end from the beginning, Draw our restless hearts into the stillness of trust. In the face of sin, You reveal Your Passion. In the shadow of sorrow, You speak peace. May we hold fast to Your word— Even when we do not understand— And rest in the mystery that all shall be well. Amen. Amen. ---------------------------------------- © Discerning Hearts. All rights reserved.   The post Ep 9 – The 13th Shewing pt. 1 – All Shall Be Well w/ Kris McGregor – Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/ep-9-the-13th-shewing-pt-1-all-shall-be-well-w-kris-mcgregor-discerning-hearts-catholic-podcasts/] appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts [https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts].