Status Updates From Revelations of Divine Love

"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."

Somewhat accidentally reading five first-person spiritual narratives at the same time, written across a millennium and a half

Which is just fascinating. Augustine to Julian to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Tennyson and the Psalms behind them all . . . watching the baton pass from hand to hand, altering and transforming and turning corners and picking up new passengers is amazing.

Feminization of devotion