CLASSICS

The Confessions of St. Augustine.

This is to me the most wonderful record in the world of the awakening and return of a soul to God. I think everyone must see in it clues to their own experience. It is like a living voice from the 4th century, telling of the same longings, the same difficulties, the same quest.

L’Ornement des noces spirituelles de Ruysbroeck l’Admirable.

Translated by Maeterlinck. Have you read this? It is “difficult”

but most wonderful.

The Theologia Germanica.

The Revelations of Divine Love, by the Lady Julian of Norwich.

I think, of course, that the Roman Missal is, next to the New Testament (almost the whole of which is incorporated in it), an unmatched treasury. Have you ever read with attention the whole Canon of the Mass?

If you can “do with” books of devotion, there is one called Ancient Devotions for Holy communion which is free from sentiment, has many beautiful things, and the whole Mass in English and Latin. It is published by Kegan Paul and costs 33. 6d.

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