Revelations of Divine Love

This is a Revelation of Love that Jesus Christ, our endless bliss, made in Sixteen Showings, or Revelations particular.

Of the which the First is of His precious crowning with thorns; and in this was understood and specified the Trinity, with the Incarnation, and unity between God and the human soul; with many fair Showings of endless wisdom and teachings of love: in which all the Showings that follow be grounded and oned.

The Second is the changing of colour of His fair face in token of His precious Passion.

The Third is that our Lord God, Almighty Wisdom, All-Love, just as, truly, he has made everything that is, so truly does he work everything that is done.

The Fourth is the scourging of His tender body, with plentiful shedding of His blood.

Fifth is that the Fiend is overcome by the precious Passion of Christ.

The Sixth is the honour bestowed by our Lord God in which He rewards His blessed servants in Heaven.

The Seventh is our often feeling of weal and woe; (the feeling of weal is gracious touching and lightening, truly assuring us of endless joy; the feeling of woe is temptation by heaviness and irksomeness of our fleshly living;) with the spiritual understanding that we are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

The Eighth is of the last pains of Christ, and His cruel dying.

The Ninth the Blissful Trinity’ serenity regarding the hard Passion of Christ and His rueful dying: in which joy and serenity He wills that we find solace and are made glad with Him, till when we come to the fulness in Heaven.

The Tenth is, our Lord Jesus Showing in love His blissful heart cloven in two, and rejoicing.

The Eleventh is a high spiritul Showing of His dearworthy Mother.

The Twelfth is that our Lord is the most worthy Being.

The Thirteenth is that our Lord God wills we have great regard to all the deeds that He has done: in the great nobleness of the making of all things; and the excellency of humanity’s making, which is above all his works; and the precious Satisfaction that He has made for our sin, turning all our blame into endless honour. In which Showing our Lord also said: Behold and see! For by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness that I have done all this, by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness I shall make well all that is not well; and you shall see it. And in this He wills that we keep ourselves in the Faith and truth of Holy Church, not desiring to see into His secret things now, other than belongs to us in this life.

The Fourteenth is that our Lord is the Ground of our Prayer. In this were see two properties: the one is rightful prayer, the other is steadfast trust; which He wills should both be alike, that is large; and thus our prayer pleases Him and He of His Goodness fulfills it.

The Fifteenth is that we shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus for our honour and we shall be filled with joy and bliss in Heaven.

The Sixteenth is that the Blissful Trinity, our Maker, in Christ Jesus our Saviour endlessly dwells in our soul, gloriously ruling and protecting all things, mightily and wisely saving us and keeping us , for love; and we shall not be overcome by our Enemy.

These are my paraphrases of parts of the chapters of Revelations of Divine Love which we are looking at during August 2026 on Online Contemplative Worship

Chapter 5

At this same time our Lord shewed me the spiritual sight of his homely loving. I saw that he is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us: he is our clothing that for love wraps us, clasps us, and all-encompasses us for tender love, for he shall never leave us; being to us everything that is good,- this is my understanding. Also in this he shewed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball.

I looked at it with the eye of my understanding, and thought: What can this be? The answer gathers everything up: it is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothingness for its littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts, and ever shall last because God loves it. And so it is with all things that have Being by the love of God.In this little thing I saw three properties.

The first is that God made it,
the second is that God loves it,
the third, that God keeps it.

But how can I truly know in myself the Maker, the Keeper, and the Lover?

This I cannot tell; for till I am substantially Oned to him, I may never have full rest nor true bliss: that is to say, till I am so fastened to him, that there is absolutely nothing that is made between my God and me.

God, of your Goodness, give me yourself:
for you are enough for me,
and may I ask nothing less
than that which gives you full worship;
and if I ask anything that is less,
I will always be wanting more
but only in you I have all.

Chapter 6

For the Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it condescends to the lowest part of our need. It quickens our soul and brings it to life, and makes it grow in grace and virtue.

It is, of its nature, close to us; and readiest in grace: for it is the same grace that the soul seeks, and ever shall seek till we know truly that He has enclosed us all in Himself..

For He has no contempt of that which he has made, nor does he disdain to serve us at the lowest place that to our body belongs to in nature, and this for love of the soul that he has made to his own likeness.

For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the Goodness of God, and enclosed.

Yes, and this is homely: for all these may waste and wear away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole; and more near to us, without any equal;

for truly our Lover desires that our soul cleaves to him with all its might, and that we for ever cleave to his Goodness. For of all things that the heart may think, this pleases our most high God, and most quickly speeds the soul on its way.

For our soul is so specially loved of him that is highest, that it is beyond the knowing of any creature: that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loves us.

And therefore we may, with grace and his help, stand in spiritual beholding, with an everlasting marvel of this high, overpassing, inestimable Love that Almighty God has for us of his Goodness. And therefore we may ask of our Lover, with reverence, all that we will.

Chapter 8

For as long as I saw the sight of the plenteous bleeding of the Head I might never cease from these words: Benedicite Domine! (Blessed be the Lord)

In this Showing I understood six things:–

the tokens of the blessed Passion and the plenteous shedding of His precious blood.
the Maiden that is His precious Mother.
the blissful Godhead that ever was, is, and ever shall be: Almighty, All-Wisdom, All-Love.
everything that He has made. – For well I know that heaven and earth and all that is made is great and large, fair and good; but the reason why it seemed so little to my sight was that I saw it in the presence of Him that is the Maker of all things: for to a soul that sees the Maker of all, all that is made seems so very little.
He that made all things for love, by the same love keeps them, and shall keep them without end.
that God is all that is good, as I see it, and the goodness that each thing has, it is He.

Chapter 9

I speak of them that shall be saved, for at this time God showed me no other.

But in all things I believe as Holy Church believes, preaches, and teaches.

For the Faith of Holy Church, which I had understood before these Showings, I hope, by the grace of God, to have earnestly kept in my actions and my disposition. These teachings stood clearly before me.

My will and my meaning was never to receive anything that might be contrary to this teaching. And with this intention I beheld the Showing with loving delight: for this blessed Showing, as I beheld it, and the teaching of Holy Church, are as one in God's meaning.

Chapter 11

And after this I saw God in a Point, that is to say, in my understanding,--by which sight I saw that He is in all things.

I beheld and considered, seeing and knowing in sight, with a soft dread, and thought: What is sin?

For I saw truly that God does all-thing, be it never so little. And I saw truly that nothing is done by happenstance nor by adventure, but all things by the foreseeing wisdom of God: if it be happenstance or adventure in the sight of human beings, our blindness and our inability to have foresight is the cause. For the things that are in the foreseeing wisdom of God from without beginning, (which rightfully and worshipfully and continually He leadeth to the best end,) as they come about fall to us suddenly, ourselves unwitting; and thus by our blindness and our inability to have foresight we say: these are happenstances and adventures. But to our Lord God they are not so.

Therefore it behoved me to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God does all. For in this time the working of creatures was not shown, but the working of our Lord God in the creature: for He is in the Mid-point of all thing, and all He does. And I was certain He does no sin.

And here I saw truly that sin is no deed: for in all this sin was not shown. And I would no longer marvel at this, but beheld our Lord, what He would show.

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