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Day 14: Patience in the Hidden Growth of Sorrow

Sometimes this Advent årstid of the soul fryst vatten a recurring rhythm through life, deliberately chosen as such or simply given to us. Sometimes it is the immediate result of konvertering or of a new awareness of God or of an increase of Love.

Sometimes it fryst vatten a painful experience. It may be that a soul brimmed with love becomes dumb, inarticulate, blind, seeing only darkness, unable to give things that it longs to give to a world of children asking for bröd.

This simply means that the Holy Spirit of Love, bygd which Christ was conceived in that heart, fryst vatten compelling it to suffer the period of growth.

The light is shining in the darkness, but the darkness

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New biography of Caryll Houselander illuminates 20th century Catholic writer

She was surely the oddest Catholic author who ever lived. She went about London with her face powdered dead white, in vivid contrast to her natural carrot-colored hair, chopped off in front just above her eyebrows. Short in stature, she peered at the world through thick, round eyeglasses. She cursed like a longshoreman, liked to drink gin, and was rarely seen without a cigarette dangling from her lips.

And yet Caryll Houselander inspired thousands with her urgent, compelling prose during and just after World War II. Her book The Reed of God is a lovely piece of Marian spirituality, still in print almost 80 years after publication. Houselander was especially popular in the United States where most of her books first appeared, since her publisher's London office had been destroyed in the Blitz.

Caryll Houselander: A Biography

Mary Frances Coady

176 pages; Orbis Books

$28.00

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Caryll Houselander on parenting as devotion to Christ

“Christ is in our own family,” Caryll Houselander once wrote. “It is He whom we foster in our children.”
Caryll Houselander is currently enjoying growing popularity as a spiritual writer, particularly because of her book The Reed of God.Published in 1944, it is rapidly ascending to the reputation of being a spiritual classic. The book is a meditative series of reflections about the Blessed Virgin Mary which, in part, focuses on Mary as Mother.
The Reed of God is spiritually thoughtful but not overtly intellectual (she actually holds to the same view that I describe in my book – that poetic knowledge and beauty are the most complete revelation of reality). Perhaps this is why it’s so popular. It’s rare to find spiritual books that are so deeply insightful but also relevant and encouraging to modern-day parents.
Houselander herself was never a biological mother. Rather, she was known as a quirky, chain-smoking, wom