Saturday 14 June 2014.
At the Community Mass – this morning, we prayed on...
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G.K. Chesterton
(1874 - 1936)
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On this day in 1936 died G.K. Chesterton, writer and
journalist. His writings – stories, essays, poems, books,
journalism – are infused with an unequalled joy and love of truth.
In youth,
he went through a crisis of nihilistic pessimism and it was his recovery from
this that led him to God and ultimately to conversion. “The Devil made me a
Catholic,” he said – meaning that it was the experience of evil and nothingness
that convinced him of the goodness and sanity of the world and his creator. His
poem “The Ballade of a Suicide” celebrates the salvific value of ordinary
things; his novel, “The Man who was Thursday,” narrates the fight for sanity in
an insane world and ponders the paradox of God; and “Orthodoxy” (downloadable
here)*S, written long before he became a Catholic, highlights orthodoxy not
as a dead and static thing but as the only possible point of equilibrium
between crazy heresies any one of which would drive us mad.
He took
part in all the major controversies of his age, and was a lifelong adversary
and friend of socialists and atheists such as George Bernard Shaw. These
controversies were conducted with passion but with unfailing charity: he never
sought to defeat his opponents, only to defeat their ideas. He would never
cheat to score a point: and his love for the people he fought against is
something that all controversialists should imitate, however hard it may be.
Read him,
and pray for him.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
English essayist
and poet
Biography
Source: Wikipedia
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May,
1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he
was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of
literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them,
his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships
with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells--with whom he
vehemently disagreed. ....
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