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Catholic Convert Angst
“It was a careless sentence snapped out by a good, sincere priest in a public discourse.
When a soul reaches a certain pitch of conflict, it ceases to be absolutely logical; it is rather a very tender, raw thing, with all its fibres stretched to agony, shrinking from othe lightest touch, desiring to be dealt with only by Hands that have been pierced. Then it is handled roughly, pushed this way and that by a man who understands nothing, who lives in a bright light toward which the sensitive soul of the convert is reaching out with unutterable pain. It is any wonder that again and again the miserable thing creeps back into the twilight sooner than bear any more, believing that a half-light with charity must be nearer to God’s Heart than the glare of a desert…”
from his Confessions of a Convert
Catholic Convert from Anglicanism
Son of Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury
Former Priest of the Church of England
“It was a careless sentence snapped out by a good, sincere priest in a public discourse.
When a soul reaches a certain pitch of conflict, it ceases to be absolutely logical; it is rather a very tender, raw thing, with all its fibres stretched to agony, shrinking from othe lightest touch, desiring to be dealt with only by Hands that have been pierced. Then it is handled roughly, pushed this way and that by a man who understands nothing, who lives in a bright light toward which the sensitive soul of the convert is reaching out with unutterable pain. It is any wonder that again and again the miserable thing creeps back into the twilight sooner than bear any more, believing that a half-light with charity must be nearer to God’s Heart than the glare of a desert…”
from his Confessions of a Convert
Catholic Convert from Anglicanism
Son of Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury
Former Priest of the Church of England
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