Jemma

“To understand fully what she believed were ‘divine shewings’, she took the seemingly drastic step of being enclosed as an anchoress inside a cell, which was probably to the north side of the Church of St Julian, on King Street in Norwich. Becoming an anchoress around the age of 43, she lived on for up to thirty years in one room, her only door to the world walled up, and her enclosure confirmed by the last rites. This saw her as effectively dead to this world.”
― Janina Ramírez, Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History

“honestly do not see the appeal in love island. absolutely feral behaviour.”
― Idiocratea, overheard at waitrose: poetry of the public

“Every human being experiences limitation. Everyone’s body is limited: limited within a certain span of years, limited in having to live and work with other people who also have their desires and plans.”
― John M. Hull, Disability: The Inclusive Church Resource

“It would be easy for us to think that Jesus took the distorted, abnormal people and normalised them, making them like everyone else. We should, rather, understand that the welcome Jesus extended to marginalised people, whether because of their occupation, their social status or their impairments, was an experience of healing. He healed people by helping them to escape the ritual taboos which marked them out as impure, by restoring them to the communities from which they had been banished, by eating and drinking with them when no one else would even touch them, and by restoring them to life in all its fullness. In many cases this healing process was accompanied by a cure, but it is the healing that we should emphasise, because it was being healed that saved them.”
― John M. Hull, Disability: The Inclusive Church Resource