Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T23:31:12.520Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Ground of Beseeching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Few paradoxes can be more important for the Christian in quest of the true life than that between the multiplicity of Christian praying and the single unity of Christian prayer. This is especially applicable to the Christian who has made some progress in grace and is beginning to live a life of union. Mother Julian in her fourteenth revelation includes a short treatise on the prayer of beseeching in order to show how that type of prayer is part and parcel of the prayer of love, which is her one prayer. But from the very first she was confronted by many forms of prayer contrasted with the simplicity of God's goodness.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Quoted from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward, p. 58. G.K. wrote this in his notebook c. 1895 when he was 21 years old.

2 Page 244 of the Orchard Series Edition of the Revelations, prepared by Dom Koger Hudleston. This text is more accurate in some respects.