Ash Wednesday : The aim is to read the first chapter this week and blog about the questions at the end. Today however I thought I would leave a few thoughts on the front cover. The hazelnut illustration which links to Julian’s vision :
‘And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It…
Breastfeeding is something I’ve rarely heard preached about in church. Perhaps this is due to Christian modesty amongst many traditions , perhaps patriarchy, perhaps because of the Greco-Roman divide between body, mind and soul. Our western religion/ faith is a very cerebral one and yet at the heart of the sacrament is the very embodied experience of eating and drinking. Whatever your personal belief about what happens during the Eucharist the very act of receiving bread and grape juice ( fermented or not), the body and the blood , the life force of Christ, involves being nourished.
Julian compares and…
