EXTRACT
From a letter of Evelyn Underhill to Margaret Cropper (June 1932) concerning
the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during a Retreat:
‘For
the first time in a retreat of mine we had the Blessed Sacrament on the altar
all the time. I thought, poor fool that I am, how lovely it would be! But as it
went on, the awful power of that white eternity seemed more and more
overwhelming: it seemed to make noisy nonsense of everything I was trying to
say; and I ended feeling like a cross between a monkey and a parrot. .. ‘
(A.M.Allchin,
Friendship in God, SLG Press, 2003)
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