Kevin Goodrich OP The Greatest Desire - Daily Readings with Walter Hilton
Kevin Goodrich OP The Greatest Desire - Daily Readings with Walter Hilton Darton, Longman & Todd 2023 £8.99 ISBN 978-1-913657-96-3 80pp ‘It is commonly said that a soul shall see our Lord within all things, and within itself’ writes Walter Hilton. ‘It is true that our Lord is within all creatures, but not in the way that a kernel is hidden inside the shell of a nut, or as a little bodily thing is held inside another big one. But God is within all creatures as holding and keeping them in their being, through the power of his own blessed nature’. This passage, resonant of Hilton’s contemporary, Mother Julian’s hazelnut, captures an insight into God from Walter Hilton (1340-1396) from Kevin Goodrich’s daily readings from his work The Scale of Perfection. The compiler aims to serve his readers coming closer to God whilst introducing them to Hilton, who lived and gave counsel during a remarkable 14th century spiritual renaissance witnessed to also in Richard Rolle and the anonymous a