Strange Gods Before Me 2022 first published in English shortly

first published in English shortly after the declaration of the dogma of the Assumption

the king’s good servant and God’s first

It offers consolation here and there

which includes three Penguin Classics

A good work of fiction

Strange Gods Before Me 2022 first published in English shortlyBy Mother Mary Francis, P. C. C. In the immediate wake of the Second Vatican Council there followed a tragic abundance of misconceptions and misrepresentations of the nature and function of monastic contemplative life. Still more tragically, those misconceptions and misrepresentations still plague the Church and the world to the present day. As a result, Strange Gods Before Me (which first appeared in 1965) remains pointedly relevant. Mother Mary