Essays Literary, Critical and Historical by Thomas O'Hagan

Author:Thomas O'Hagan [O'Hagan, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History
ISBN: 4064066153267
Google: HO8-AAAAIAAJ
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

        “A time may come, yea, even now,

When you may worship me without reproach,

And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones,

When I am gathered to the glorious Saints.”

The essence of the Catholic faith is not “the torpidity of assurance,” but the working out of one’s salvation in fear and trembling. That pride should sometimes gain entrance into the cloister and assume the garb of humility is no doubt true; but the self-renunciation which is the true spirit of the cloister, giving up all for the service of God, is in itself a mantle of virtue—a seamless garment of grace which neither the false satire of a Tennyson nor the flashlight of a Browning monologue can transform from a beauteous raiment of light.

It is true that the same pen which gave us “St. Simeon” gave us also these beautiful lines in “St. Agnes’ Eve,” a poem which is stirred with the loveliness and tenderness of religious life. St. Agnes on the very eve of death utters these ecstatic words in beatific vision:

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