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Julian of Norwich: Listener Questions
Turning to the Mystics with James Finley
Is It Necessary to Be Separated From the World?
Is it necessary to be separated from the world, her street side window notwithstanding, in order to draw closer to God? And if so, of what uses our mortal life, why war one's self off from creation? If creation is kaleidoscopically shot through with God? Well, let's say first that I think the way God works with us and is present to us in our presence to each other. But what's really interesting in the Catholic tradition is that religious orders like the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Jesuits have no ministry. They go in and they never leave and no one's allowed in.
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