“As
it is in the liturgy, so it is in the world: Truth is as fleeting as a sunbeam,
and each time you go to Mass you see truth drop in a place it hadn’t before. A
word here, a phrase there, and each time a different one is as potent as the
little sip of wine at the end. The truth exists, but it surrounds rather than
informs people’s acts, which are constructed around evasion and resistance.” —American
poet and Catholic convert Fanny Howe, “Footsteps Over Ground,” in A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and
Katherine Towler (2012)
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