The Common Heart Charles de Foucauld first published in 1945 by

first published in 1945 by T

Mother Mary Francis sets out to correct the record with the truth and beauty of the vocation to the contemplative life by toppling the “strange gods” that have assumed majesty and power in the post-modern age—“the convex god who pushes the world away

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The Common Heart Charles de Foucauld first published in 1945 byBy Paul Horgan Paul Horgan was very much a man of the American Southwest, living there most of his career and setting many of his works there. In those Southwestern spaces, he wrote, great as they are, a person stands in relief like an earth feature, small, perhaps, but strongly lighted and as strongly shadowed. Horgan was also very much a Catholic, and he saw and wrote about life according to the light which his religion granted him. These two powers