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A New King and A Visionary Crone

This same weekend, the first in May 2023, Britain sees two very different commemorations. One is new history in the making - the first coronation in many people's living memory; the latter is the 650th anniversary of mystic and author's Mother Julian's visions. (She was 30 when she had them, not a crone, but contemplated them until her years of maturity). As ever, this is an alternative take, and an invitation


Next service on 25th June on another East Anglian contemplative woman with a special birthday


The picture is mine: She Is Our Clothing, about Julian's visions


I am seated on what I always thought looked like the Westminster chair

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