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Posted on May 23, 2018May 13, 2018

“The puzzle which God had flung to me consisted of elements which needed for their solution not the head only, but the heart, the imagination, the intuitions; in fact, the entire human character had to deal with it.”

From “Confessions of a Convert”, R H Benson   This, then, I began to see more and more overwhelmingly: that it is possible, from the huge complications of history, philosophy,…

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Posted on May 15, 2018May 13, 2018

“salvation would be easier for the clever and leisured than for the dull and busy”

From “Confessions of a Convert”. R H Benson:   It had been put to me by my Superior that I was surely incurring the guilt of pride in venturing to set…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018

“It is consummated”

From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE SIXTH WORD: “It is consummated. He has finished His Father’s business, He has dealt with sinners and saints, and has finally…

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Posted on March 30, 2018July 3, 2018

“Amen I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise”

From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE SECOND WORD Amen I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise. Our Divine Lord, in this Second…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 29, 2018

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”

https://youtu.be/kMbGWPaXX8Y From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s reflections on the Seven Last Words: Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. In previous considerations we have studied the Life…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 29, 2018

Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross: Introduction to reflections by R H Benson

For Good Friday, I am posting reflections by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of an (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and prolific writer before his early…

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