The Beggar's Banquet: A Personal Retreat on Christ, His Mother, the Spiritual Life, and the Saints by Martin Regis

Author:Martin, Regis [Martin, Regis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

So was I faced with this new vision:

I wanted to see how the image could fit the circle

and how it could be that that was where it was . . .

Alas, even the high imagination (“alta fantasia”) of Dante, fails at this point (“not a flight for my wings,” he laments), leaving him however with the blinding affirmation that is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”

1. First of Eliot’s Four Quartets, 119.

2. Third of Four Quartets, 136.

3. The Complete Poems, 65.

4. Tertio Millennio Adveniente (November 10, 1994), no. 6.

5. Ibid., no. 7.

6. Gerard Manley Hopkins, from “I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day” from A Hopkins Reader (New York: Doubleday/Image, 1966), 77.

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