Author: Margaret Coombs

What he found in The Love of God [by Francis de Sales] astonished him a little, but all the same it encouraged him. “Among the reflections and resolutions it is good to make use of colloquies, and speak sometimes to our Lord, sometimes to the Angels, to the Saints, and to oneself, to one’s own…

“A remarkable engineering feat,” the Mayor said, “like the pyramids. And it needed slave labor to accomplish it.””As in your Siberian camps.”(page 63) In yesterday’s post I failed to keep in mind the good Father’s devotion to humility. It feels embarrassing to have exaggerated the level of my knowledge. No, I did not “sometimes” engage…

“It occurred to Father Quixote that such a man was almost certainly a member of Opus Dei—that club of intellectual Catholic activists whom he could not fault and yet whom he could not trust. He was a countryman, and they belonged to the great cities.” (page 50)I met a man from a Central American country…

I’m writing my thoughts on Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene, inspired by the public read sponsored by A Public Space (APS Together) and led by Yiyun Li. Father Quixote (recently promoted to Monsignor due to a clerical error) of El Toboso and its communist former mayor, Enrique Zancas (called Sancho), are on a road trip…

In Monsignor Quixote, the priest begins a journey with the Communist mayor (Sancho), who lost his re-election. Father Quixote responds mildly to the mayor’s insult in line three. “What will you do, father, away from El Toboso?”“I shall obey orders. I will go where I am sent.”“To preach to the converted as you do here?”“That…