Recent Reading
In the past two weeks I've read the following: I hadn't planned on reading two books back to back about Priests (one Catholic, one Anglican) and their respective parishes but it happened. I'll be honest though, I don't think I would have continued with Diary of a Country Priest if I had not been reading and listening along with the Close Reads Podcast . The hosts were able to open the book up in a way I could not have done on my own. Being written as a diary there wasn't a traditional plot, the passages were scattered and difficult to follow, much like a diary will read, and I had to constantly reorient myself whenever I returned to it. That being said, I knew I was reading something profound and beautiful, even if I could not explain or understand it fully. I'd like to think I'd reread it again in the years to come. It was sad but moving and gave me a deeper appreciation of the vocation of the Priesthood and the hidden suffering that comes from being the...
