Strange Gods Before Me 2022 But when the hand that

But when the hand that locked her up gives room

It offers consolation here and there

” To do justice to this complexity

insecurity

even as she wills her spiritual self-immolation

Strange Gods Before Me 2022 But when the hand thatBy 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