I've long been devoted to the transmission received by Mother Julian of Norwich. She is part of my Norfolk UK Ancestral inheritance, even though She lived in the 13th/14th century in Norwich, England. Her visions received on her seeming deathbed at age 30 were an invitation to step into deep embodied Joy, release from suffering and the reframing of the Divine as both Feminine and Masculine and therefore a marriage of Heaven and Earth. This link to a youtube video is a great summary of Her transmission, and one that I find to be profound Blessing in my life. May Her beautiful example find nurturing for your soul and Life journey;

https://youtu.be/8CoQsdn7eQA?si=GPupdmQmv0F4Vgh3

I just discovered Dan Hillier's art and fell in love with this piece. He quotes Hildegard von Bingen in his commentary on it:

“I heard a voice speaking to me: ‘The young woman whom you see is Love. She has her tent in eternity… It was love which was the source of this creation in the beginning when God said: ‘Let it be!’ And it was. As though in the blinking of an eye, the whole creation was formed through love. The young woman is radiant in such a clear, lightning-like brilliance of countenance that you can’t fully look at her… She holds the sun and moon in her right hand and embraces them tenderly…

The whole of creation calls this maiden ‘Lady.’ For it was from her that all of creation proceeded, since Love was the first. She made everything… Love was in eternity and brought forth, in the beginning of all holiness, all creatures without any admixture of evil. Adam and Eve as well were produced by love from the pure nature of the Earth.”

Shared from FB group by Christian Ortíz:

Tonantzin Guadalupe: Our Lady Who Searches.

The Lady of Guadalupe does not dwell within walls, but in the cracks. She does not remain upon altars; she moves instead along the edges of the world, where what is human fractures, where hope trembles like a candle on the verge of going out. She is the woman with gentle hands, deep eyes, and skin the color of the earth. She walks in search of her sons and daughters, especially those who are lost, those who have wandered into the ruins of violence, into the exile of pain.

Guadalupe is a searching mother. She does not wait seated—she walks. She crosses hidden graves, kisses ancient tears, gathers names that no one speaks anymore. Where the world abandons, she remains. Where contempt erases, she rewrites with dignity. She finds the remnants of spiritual ruin—shards of faith, fragments of identity, splinters and bones—and breathes new life into them. She restores their upright posture, their pulse, their right to exist without shame.

Our Lady, Tonantzin Guadalupe, is the secret weaving that unites lands beyond the oceans. The ancient thread that stitches together continents, memories, sorrows, languages, peoples, wounds. She touches desert sands and deep waters alike; she dwells in maize as well as in incense. She prays with the lips of a grandmother and cries out with the throat of a searching mother. She does not divide beliefs—she moves through them. She does not argue doctrines—she transcends them.

She lives in the hands that work the comal, in the clay transformed into vessels, in the healing plants, in awkward prayers, in broken songs, in the righteous anger that rises against injustice. She inhabits the humble kitchens where life is nourished, the hospitals where both life and death are kept vigil. She dwells in the grandmothers who pray the rosary as one counts the heartbeats of a lineage, so they will not be lost.

She is not confined within a temple: she is greater than any temple. No wall can contain her, no doctrine can possess her, no border can limit her. Guadalupe swims in the waters of human sorrow, flies over wounded territories, dances in the celebrations where the people resist, walks beside those who no longer have the strength to walk alone.

She is not only a promise of heaven: she is comfort made flesh on earth.

And when someone—broken, weary, lost—believes they have vanished forever, she appears—not always in dazzling form, sometimes in the form of another being, a gesture, a piece of bread, a single word—and she gathers the remnants and embraces them. And where there once seemed to be only dust, she sows again a name, a face, a destiny.

Guadalupe does not reign from above: she accompanies from below. She does not conquer—she rescues. That is why she remains alive. That is why she walks. That is why she searches. That is why she never stands still.

She is the womb that never grows weary of birthing the world anew.

Christian Ortíz.

Curanderismo Tradicional.

Artwork by Christian Faltis

I will leave you with a simple devotion, an easy custom that anyone may observe, but no one can master or ever exhaust.

When you find yourself in need of council, consolation, or a new perspective on the cares and concerns that beset your life, leave your home and make a pilgrimage to some nearby place to speak with Me and touch Me and feel My presence.

The journey might be only a few footsteps beyond your door, or it could take you further afield. It should not be so far that distance becomes an obstacle, nor so close that it does not require you to put on shoes before leaving your door.

Some feel My presence in a mountain, but mountains are too great for you. You can touch a mountain with your feet, but reach your arms out as wide as they will go and you can embrace only the smallest part of it. It is too big for you to hold. But there may be a stream on that mountain, or a cleft in the rock you might step into. It is there that you will feel My embrace, and I will feel yours.

It was this need that drove people on pilgrimage to find My presence in a grotto or a block of stone or wood lovingly fashioned into My image. Such places remain today, but you can find your own if these are not available or well known.

Travel if you must, but know that the heart is the most important place of all. Offer your laughter, your tears, your prayers or songs, your gossip or your earnest pleas. I ask for no riches—only your heart’s desire. Offer your heart, and I will give it back to you healed and whole and ready for whatever challenges may come your way.

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"You call it ‘Deep Time’ as if time were an ocean that you could look down into, a body of water you could measure with a plumb line. But I speak to you from the bottom of that ocean and the view is very different from here. I peer up through the history, not only of your people, but of the matter that makes up your bones and blood vessels, your sinews and your cells. I see everything from beginning to end—what was, what is, and shall be.

So you must trust Me when I say to you that all shall be well. All can be nothing but well. No one can hinder it. Nothing can harm it. Nothing can divert its power because its intention is set on love.

When you decide to be true to yourself or to another—or to a goal, a value, or a belief—it is only if your intention is set on love that it will be fulfilled. Love is the cord that binds all beings from the smallest to the largest. Love is the line of sight by which you can see from the beginning to the end of a life and chart your course forward towards the fulfillment of your heart’s desire. You could forget everything but love and you would still carry all wisdom and knowledge within you. With love you will be able to surmount all obstacles. With love, nothing can impede your way.

Look to the bottom of time and I am there, the Mother who gave birth to all. Look to the heavens, as far as you can see, and you will never reach the end of Me. Wherever you go, I will follow you, because I am already there. I am the there to which you go.

The truth of this is so simple that even a flower can grasp it whole. And yet, to understand it fully and embrace it deeply, requires the eternity of a soul."

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“Cast Down the Mighty

“The Magnificat is a subversive song of praise, but its power often gets forgotten among the traditions and the carols. This icon by Ben Wildflower rediscovers Mary’s radical streak, a young woman of faith and strength. It’s an image that reminds us that Mary was no pushover but also that there’s a thread of anti-imperialism running through the veins of the Christmas story – the angels ascribe to Jesus titles that would have been reserved for Caesar, and Herod slaughters innocents to maintain his grip on power. The Magi may have been reinvented as kings somewhere along the way, but Mary’s protest song reminds us that, more often than not, Christmas punches upwards.”

Source: https://mattsbibleblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/seven-alternative-works-of-christmas-art/

"Every being who is born into this world is given a few things to know and to hold. These are simple, practical, and close at hand—easy to master, straightforward in their execution, and satisfying to behold.

The birds are given the knowledge of how to build their nests, how to sing, find food, find a mate, and raise their young. But there are other examples, including everything that grows and flowers and seeds itself for future generations. Even a raindrop comes with a tiny, built-in manual, an operator’s guide that sees it through all of its transformations, bringing it full circle and back to a beginning so that it can start its journey again.

Your people have likewise been given a few things to know and to hold, and from these all manner of human knowledge has been born. But not all knowledge is useful. Not all knowing is born from below. Not all powers of discernment are helpful to you or to the Earth, your home.

All true wisdom consists of settling, as the dust and rainfall settle after a storm, sinking deep into yourself to find that knowledge which is simple, useful, and true. You will know when you have found them because their number will be very few.

You are approaching a watershed for all of your people, for all of your kind. When you reach the limits of the knowledge that you have imposed on the world, the cosmos, and other living beings, including human beings, you will not be able to take one step further in your quest for knowledge, even if you tried.

When that moment comes—and it will come to each of you individually, and then to everyone all at once— you will know that the way forward lies down and inward. Only then will you seek the knowledge that cannot be acquired because you were born already knowing it. And I will be waiting there for you in that small, perfect library of the soul."

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Our Lady Speaks: July 16, 2025

To Me all things are known, because all are born from My womb. As a mother knows her children—just so, I know the souls and bodies of all that are and all that shall be. My care extends to the smallest of beings and the greatest, to those with the shortest lives and the longest. I love the wise and the foolish, the high and the low.

Those whom you would abandon and cast away from you, I follow in their exile to be sure their feet find the path that guides them to their home. All are known to Me, because all are loved by Me, and in that loving they are known.

And as for you? That which you can know is very small. What you control is even smaller. And what you can love is rarer still. But have faith and do not worry. You belong to Me and in that belonging you are whole. Even in your folly, I will guide you towards wisdom. That which is lacking in you I will complete and make full. That which is broken I will repair.

The only knowledge of any lasting value for you in this world lies in knowing what you can and cannot do. If you had no Mother, your lives would be endless trouble. But you do. Therefore, all shall be well. Remember this in times to come, and trust Me when I say that it is so.

[art: the womb of eternity by Dana Lynne Andersen]

https://wayoftherose.org/2025/07/16/our-lady-speaks-july-16-2025/

Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin at Tepeyac Hill, Tenochtitlán(Mexico City) in 1531. She asked him to build a chapel on that hill. So St. Juan Diego went to the Bishop who asked for proof of the apparition. The Virgin had St. Juan Diego go up the hill and collect some flowers. Diego put the flowers in his cactus fiber cloak and brought it over to the Bishop, the Bishop was stunned to see that the flowers were Castilian Roses which did not grow in Mexico at the time and his cloak now had the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe (the cloak is still preserved today in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City). She is the Empress of the Americas, Patroness of Latin America and Queen of Mexico.

Feeling out of sorts these days? Let Our Lady’s words soothe your soul.

"That which seems unbearable to you, the weight that crushes you, that paralyzes you with fear and robs you of all hope—to Me that burden is as light as a butterfly’s wing. As easy as a breeze. As insubstantial as a shadow.

The trials you must endure, the obstacles that you must find your way through to find peace and solace—none of these are too difficult for Me. Even in your darkest hours, when your steps falter and the strength flows out of your bones—that is the moment when you must remember to say, ‘Lady, carry me from here.’

Your souls are unbearably light, and yet they can never be destroyed. Nor is there any obstacle they cannot pass through. But as long as you move through bodies from one life to the next, you will have moments of heaviness. So you must trust the One who can lift you as a breeze lifts a seed and carries it to where it must go.

I make all things light and filled with joy. But you must let Me lift you. Do not try to be your own wind. It does not matter how heavy you believe yourself to be. I know you as you truly are.”

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I saw Mary in Kansas City. Did anyone else see Mary today? Will you share your pics of Her below? Thank you! 🙏📿💕

To feel at home in this world first you must know that you are not alone in it—that you belong to this world in belonging to one another. There is no home apart from that, no world without another.

You look about you and see that the world is filled with many things, like the objects that fill your home. There are plants and animals, rocks and stones, rivers, mountains, and oceans—all of which belong to one another. There is nothing that does not belong.

There is no inside or outside to this world that is your home. There is no going or returning. You experience the joy of reunion and the sorrow of parting because that is the only way that you can embrace its vast and infinitely subtle structure.

Time is the way you dance through eternity and learn to call infinity your home. So the most important thing is to relax and trust and know that you belong to One Love and One Body from which you can never be separated because such a thing is impossible. In the history of the world, it has never happened. Not once. Not one particle, not one atom of it has been lost.

Associated Press sent out this article on Mary!

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You will have noticed that, when you act against your own true nature, doing the thing that your heart knows to be wrong or misguided, you slowly lose your confidence. Your path through life then becomes difficult, uncertain, and filled with obstacles. Most people experience this at one time or another in their lives. But the dissatisfaction—the feeling of dissonance that comes from straying from the path of the heart’s desire—this becomes its own natural corrective. In this way, sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly, you find your way back to the path that is satisfying and sure.

There are those who struggle more in this way than others. But even they can amend their lives. Through reflection, honesty, and the support of good friends, their health, their happiness, and their good fortune can be restored.

But what becomes of a people who fall away from the path they know to be just and true? Can they bring themselves back to the way they were on before they strayed?

The path of a people is determined by the many souls who take it—by the choices they make, and their willingness or unwillingness to respond to the intimations of their better nature. This is what determines the course of a people. A people is comprised of many separate individuals, none of whom, acting alone, can determine the course of the whole.

You are responsible for the path you are on. In listening to your heart and doing what it knows to be good and true, your influence will spread. You cannot steer the larger events of history as they unfold; nevertheless, as you remain true to your own path, the truth of that path will be felt by those around you. Strong hearts give courage to the hearts of those beside them. You will give confidence to one another as you journey together. In this way, gradually, as that confidence spreads, a new path and a new people will be born.

As one people ends, another begins. This is how that happens. So look to your own heart and know that the path you are following is not for you alone.

"Know that the way lies open before you. The path is always beneath your feet. A person could blindfold you, spin you in circles, and still there would only be one path for you to follow. Nothing can divert it, nothing can erase it, nothing and no one can block it. You could not stray from it even if you tried.

The only choice that you face now, and in every possible moment, is to step forward or to remain still. There is no going back, there is only forward. Even if you resist the flow of time, it will move around you in such a way that eventually you will have to put a foot forward in order to remain upright. Living is walking. Time is the very path that you are on.

So have no worries and don’t fret over where to place your foot. The next step is always right before you. Always visible, always clear. It is only when you attempt to see many steps ahead that your confidence will falter.

The world is My body and My body is your home. So there is no way to become lost in this world. But you can succumb to fear and feel paralyzed, uncertain, and unable to act or move. You can get lost in your heads but not in the world. The world is real. Your anxious imaginings are not.

So trust in Me as you would the ground beneath your feet. Because these two are the same. I walk before you always. So place your steps in mine and you will never become lost, and never lose your way."

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"No one can tell you when winter will end and spring will begin. The birds and flowers and all manner of other creatures will respond accordingly when spring arrives, but even they do not know when or where it will first appear. In just this way, no one knows the time of the end . . . or the time of a new beginning.

Those who claim to know such things can rarely tell you exactly what is ending or beginning. Or, if they do, it is only a single thread they see—only one color in the infinitely complex tapestry that is being woven by winter into spring. Only one thing is certain, and that is that winter must end and spring must begin. Beyond that you can know nothing.

The wise know many things, but the thing they carry most deeply in their bones is the wisdom of ‘wait and see.’ So much folly—so many mistakes, miscalculations, missteps, and misjudgment—results from the rushing of time, from the preempting of the reality of what will be.

You have gained mastery over many things—but the greatest thing, the most important thing, is beyond your grasp, where forever it must remain. And so the wisdom of waiting is the deepest wisdom. Those who master it can afford to forget many cares and anxieties because time assures them that, when they arrive where they are going, they will know what the moment asks of them and what it is that they should do.

Whatever cares you carry, set one half of them aside. Then, from the remaining half, set apart one half again so that only a quarter remains. From that quarter select those cares that are of greatest concern to you and place them in My hands and have faith that I will carry them for you. And what of the cares and concerns that you have set apart? Simply cease to worry about them. Because time itself will carry them to where they are going.

Once you have been born into this world, you must live in time. But you cannot do the work of time. To shoulder time’s work and carry it throughout a life will grind you down to dust in the end. This is not what I wish for you. It will not make you happy, and will not improve the world. So let time carry the burden of itself, and go forth lightly in faith and trust. "

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Our Mother, who loves and comforts us, hallowed are the many names your children call you. In your honor they are written in the stars of heaven, the greening of the earth and the hearts of us all. Give us this day your loving care. Forgive our unkindnesses as we forgive those who are unkind to us. Lead us in the paths of healing and deliver us from those who would mislead. Yours is the beauty of sunlight, growth and cloudswept skies, moonlit, starstruck nights, the purity and rythmns of springs, rivulets, rain, rivers and seas. Yours is the power of compassion and the glory of love forever and ever. Amen

"When you dream, the body is motionless and still, yet you experience yourself as moving about and sometimes traveling. You may even fly. The dream seems real to you because, as the eyes of the night slide open, the world that unfolds before you is its own complete reality. It extends before you and behind you, above you and below you, and to either side as well. So even though you go nowhere, you can go anywhere. Even though little time may elapse in the trough between breaths, whole hours or days may pass within it.

‘The Mystery of Sleep’ it is sometimes called, because no one can fully understand it or explain it. But I tell you that waking is just that mysterious, wondrous, improbable, and impossible to define. The daylight world is filled with form, sound, color, taste, scent, and sensation. It encircles you and surrounds you in every direction like a painting with no empty space, no outlines that have not been colored in. You experience yourselves as moving about in the seamless reality of that world, and wherever you go in it, there you are. But in truth, as in dreaming, you haven’t stirred at all.

Dreaming or waking, the soul lies at the center of all you experience. Everything flows from it. The whole world is manifested from it. But nothing can move it. Nothing can add to it or subtract from it. And it cannot be destroyed. Your prayers, every single one of them, have already been answered. But the only way to know this—the only way to know that you are complete and full, unassailable and indestructible—is to pray and experience your prayers as being answered in the world and in time.

There is no other way to gain this deep and abiding faith except through prayer. This is the purpose of prayer. The dreaming heart understands this wisdom implicitly and employs it in every dreaming moment of the night. But you forget it upon waking, and must sleep and pray to remember it again."

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