A Pilgrimage to Find Flannery O’Connor
O’Connor initially captured their attention with her words, but this traveling sisterhood hoped they’d uncover something far deeper to help them grow in their writing and faith.
O’Connor initially captured their attention with her words, but this traveling sisterhood hoped they’d uncover something far deeper to help them grow in their writing and faith.
Flannery O’Connor did not merely depict hounds of heaven — she is herself a hound of heaven
COMMENTARY: She knew how to make fun of herself, in a sincere way few of us do.
COMMENTARY: The Catholic writer’s faith shone through such suffering when she said, ‘I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing ...’
When my children are adults, I hope that they remember with fondness our family road trips, especially this one.
COMMENTARY: O’Connor’s enjoyment of the natural world, despite the terribly debilitating dis-ease she suffered from, was in keeping with her philosophy of life.
COMMENTARY: Novelist of grace and grittiness said: ‘I write the way I do because and only because I am a Catholic.’
Southern sensibility suggests slowing down to get a fair read of novelist Flannery O’Connor
O’Connor wrote about losers and misfits; Scorsese makes films about them; Springsteen sings of them.
O’Connor, writing to a priest friend, made a comment that revealed her compassion and humility: ‘The thing about Lourdes is that you are not inclined to pray there for yourself …’
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