Prayers of Julian of Norwich 39
The Word of God
Lord God, teach me about my Saviour and his salvation, to whose
good news I am bound, invited by you. May I be drawn, counselled,
enabled and taught inwardly by the Holy Spirit and outwardly
through your holy Church. May I receive the word with reverence
and meekness, pleasing you, gaining help and sharing in Christ.
Amen.^133
Set readings
By the grace of God I know and believe that the blessed Trinity
made humankind in his image and likeness. In the same way I
know that when we fell so deeply and so wretchedly by sin, there
was no other help to restore us, but through him who made us.
And he who made humankind in love chose to restore us by the
same love, to be like Jesus Christ our Saviour in heaven, so he
humbly chose to make himself a man like us. In this way he lived,
our glorious and blessed Lord God hidden in humanity. This I truly
trust and believe; that so lovely a man never lived, till the time his
beauty was changed, with suffering, sorrow, passion and death, for
our saving. Amen.^134
Prayer
Good Lord, I bring you my questions and doubts and I ask to see that
you may make all things well, that you can and will make all things
well and that all manner of things shall be well.^135
Free prayer..... ., or
Courteous Lord, I pray for myself and for those dear to me, and I
offer you all I own......