Hanging On In There: An Essay in Meaning (Selected Poems) spo-disabled Reader in Theology at Blackfriars

Reader in Theology at Blackfriars

“The common denominator for every kind of love there is”: so Mother Mary Francis

In addition to The Secret of the Heart

The beliefs and practices of Christianity find their source

concretized in a devotional action

Hanging On In There: An Essay in Meaning (Selected Poems) spo-disabled Reader in Theology at BlackfriarsBy Marie Nol Presented and translated by Pauline Matarasso Midway through her poignant Office for a Dead Child, Marie Nol makes a ready admission of the limitations of language in the pursuit of meaning: The words come readily to mind, The meaning though is hard to find. Yet, for this seemingly ordinary French woman, words were of paramount importance. They were the receptacle in which could be safely stored the meaning God entrusted to me, for whom,