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.
COMMENTARY: ‘The Christian writer particularly will feel that whatever his initial gift is, it comes from God,’ the Catholic novelist and short-story writer wrote, believing her craft was indeed ‘God’s business.’
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 ...’
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.
‘Flannery’s quote immediately reveals a gut reaction framed by an intensity and commitment to her faith that we as Catholics should all possess,’ ‘The Chosen’ actor told the Register.
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When O’Connor died of lupus in 1964 she left behind a great body of work, including a third novel, still unfinished, titled ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?’
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 …’
Southern sensibility suggests slowing down to get a fair read of novelist Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor was better than most, irrespective of the demons that she fought and which, for the most part, she exorcised.
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