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The Diary of a Country Priest

by Georges Bernanos, Remy Rougeau (Introduction)

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In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself. Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness...more

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Published December 17th 2001 by Da Capo Press (first published 1936)

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Dec 27, 2011 AC rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: novels-french-writers

I read this decades ago and found it very moving - despite the fact that I am not (and was not) very religious (to put it mildly). I only post it now because it came up recently in a conversation. I have no idea how it would read for me today, of course - and I have no plans to find out.

There is some discussion, as I recall, of Bernanos (and certainly plenty of discussion of his 'type') in Robert Wohl's important book, The Generation of 1914. Bernanos was a Catholic, but there are existential el...more

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Jun 26, 2012 Jim Behringer rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: christian, classic

I am convinced that the translation of this book (translator: Pamela Morris) is a great barrier to the enjoyment of the book. It is apparent that the translator was unable to bring out the flow of the thought because sometimes the wrong word was used. Also, her choice of dialects was terrible (French peasants who speak like Irish or Cockneys!) From what I've read from other readers, the Diary is difficult enough to get through without this poor translation of it. Please, someone, come up with a...more I am convinced that the translation of this book (translator: Pamela Morris) is a great barrier to the enjoyment of the book. It is apparent that the translator was unable to bring out the flow of the thought because sometimes the wrong word was used. Also, her choice of dialects was terrible (French peasants who speak like Irish or Cockneys!) From what I've read from other readers, the Diary is difficult enough to get through without this poor translation of it. Please, someone, come up with a new translation!

Essential to my staying with the book was the 2002 introduction in my edition by Remy Rougeau. I read it before and after reading the book and without it, I would not have appreciated anything but the end of the book.

I rated this book so low because 1) the poor translation, and 2) I couldn't follow the priest's conversations, and 3) until near the end I couldn't relate to the young priest's descriptions. On the other hand, a Goodreads reviewer called "booklady" gave such an excellent review that captured why the book is important, that I have copied and pasted it here:

booklady: "Deceptively quiet book which starts off very slowly; though I knew it had to be going somewhere, it is easy to see why some readers miss its depths—I stopped and started it several times myself. And then...!

"The gist of the story is an inexperienced, young priest arrives at his first parish, a little place out in the country and begins to keep a diary. We also learn he is poor, devout, idealistic and ascetic. None of these traits particularly endear him to his parishioners. He seems to have but one fellow cleric friend, a worldly priest, de Torcy, who would have him ‘toughen up’ and stand up for himself. Sometimes, I confess I felt a little exasperated with our curé myself. Other times, his self-effacing meekness brought out my motherly instincts and I wanted to help this young clergyman—who so many seemed to despise or take advantage of. What makes the saga so compelling is the gentle, uncomplaining way the new priest relates his many failures and humiliations. As his audience we see his kindnesses misunderstood and his simple mistakes turned against him. And yet he is determined to go out and visit all within his parish despite mounting health problems.

"Most of the ‘action’ – if it can even be called that – in this novel occurs in the brilliantly constructed conversations between the curate and another character: a confused little girl, an atheist doctor, a long-grieving countess, her malicious teenage daughter, and a soldier of fortune to name a few. It is in these epic dialogues George Bernanos' reason for writing this testimony to faith is truly revealed.

"It isn’t an action book. It’s much, much better than that! I can see why some – used to reading a different sort of literature – have discounted this book. It has to be read carefully, slowly and perceptively. Also, some background on the author, George Bernanos, and the French movement, positivism, would be extremely beneficial.

Highly recommended! One of the most faith-affirming books I’ve read this year!" (review in full by Goodreads participant "booklady")

I would have liked to have made more marks in the book to go back and reread. However, I bought this book used, I think I may have to return it to a church library in the area (it may have been mixed into someone's books and sold). I did like these statements:

"Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths."

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May 18, 2011 booklady rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, classic, family, hagiography, fiction, prayer, psychology, religion, philosophy, theology, worth-reading-over-and-over, favorites

Deceptively quiet book which starts off very slowly; though I knew it had to be going somewhere, it is easy to see why some readers miss its depths—I stopped and started it several times myself. And then...!

The gist of the story is an inexperienced, young priest arrives at his first parish, a little place out in the country and begins to keep a diary. We also learn he is poor, devout, idealistic and ascetic. None of these traits particularly endear him to his parishioners. He seems to have but o...more Deceptively quiet book which starts off very slowly; though I knew it had to be going somewhere, it is easy to see why some readers miss its depths—I stopped and started it several times myself. And then...!

The gist of the story is an inexperienced, young priest arrives at his first parish, a little place out in the country and begins to keep a diary. We also learn he is poor, devout, idealistic and ascetic. None of these traits particularly endear him to his parishioners. He seems to have but one fellow cleric friend, a worldly priest, de Torcy, who would have him ‘toughen up’ and stand up for himself. Sometimes, I confess I felt a little exasperated with our curé myself. Other times, his self-effacing meekness brought out my motherly instincts and I wanted to help this young clergyman—who so many seemed to despise or take advantage of. What makes the saga so compelling is the gentle, uncomplaining way the new priest relates his many failures and humiliations. As his audience we see his kindnesses misunderstood and his simple mistakes turned against him. And yet he is determined to go out and visit all within his parish despite mounting health problems.

Most of the ‘action’ – if it can even be called that – in this novel occurs in the brilliantly constructed conversations between the curate and another character: a confused little girl, an atheist doctor, a long-grieving countess, her malicious teenage daughter, and a soldier of fortune to name a few. It is in these epic dialogues George Bernanos' reason for writing this testimony to faith is truly revealed.

It isn’t an action book. It’s much, much better than that! I can see why some – used to reading a different sort of literature – have discounted this book. It has to be read carefully, slowly and perceptively. Also, some background on the author, George Bernanos, and the French movement, positivism, would be extremely beneficial.

Highly recommended! One of the most faith-affirming books I’ve read this year!

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Jul 16, 2008 jo rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: blew-my-mind, western-europe, the-priestly-condition

i read this a long time ago. though i remember it only dimly, i know that it changed my life, the way some books do. like The Catcher in the Rye. like Almanac of the Dead. like If This Is a Man. like that book by czeslaw milosz in which he riffs on whitman, whose title i cannot remember/find to save my life, and which got dropped to the bottom of the atlantic ocean when i tried to ship my books across continents in a box that was way too slight to hold so much weight. there are good books somewh...more

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Nov 10, 2008 Ignacio rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Emocionante.

La impotencia de un hombre humilde ante Dios y la humanidad, aunque esa humanidad sea tan sólo un remoto pueblo del norte de Francia y ese hombre sea un sacerdote.
La gracia recibida hace de su tarea una obra de proporciones titánicas en manos de un hombre tímido, reservado y enfermo. A su lado Dios, la Iglesia, representada por la figura amable e íntegra del cura de Torcy, y la conciencia de su misión. Frente a él, un mundo mezquino, simple y vulgar, lleno del dolor sordo de los hábi...more

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Nov 29, 2008 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Parisian Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) is one of the last century's greatest Catholic novelists, and this is probably his most admired book. As the title indicates, this is a fictional "diary" of a young, very ill, priest who is trying manfully to administer well to his small countryside parish. He struggles with faith, the role of suffering, the nature of evil and almost every other major religious topic as he strives to maintain his integrity and faithful stewardship over a very problematic...more

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Nov 24, 2012 Piperitapitta rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: autori-francesi, letteratura-francese, romanzo, religione-e-spiritualit

Tutto è grazia.

Non so se riuscirò a scrivere un commento su questo romanzo.
Diario di un curato di campagna è un libro difficile: scritto in maniera difficile, per i suoi contenuti, e tradotto in maniera altrettanto difficile: ho letto che molti, qui su aNobii, ne consigliano la lettura nella traduzione di Paola Messori (ed. I Meridiani Mondadori) e non in quella "antica" di Adriano Grande che io e molti altri possediamo.
È un libro difficile dicevo (e non intendo dirmi con questo "quanto sei brav...more

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Aug 04, 2012 Mark miller rated it 5 of 5 stars

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The Diary of a Country Priest
By GEORGE BERNANOS

I just finished the novel so you will have to excuse me of my immediate sadness and sorrow for a man so beautiful and full of life. I could not bear to feel him die. Yes, feel. I felt as though I was with him in all his time of turmoil, agony, and internal suffering. I understand the meaning of Grace now, or at least I think I do. He meant that no matter what evil or hatred has been or is bestowed upon you that it does...more Reader Response Paper-writing
The Diary of a Country Priest
By GEORGE BERNANOS

I just finished the novel so you will have to excuse me of my immediate sadness and sorrow for a man so beautiful and full of life. I could not bear to feel him die. Yes, feel. I felt as though I was with him in all his time of turmoil, agony, and internal suffering. I understand the meaning of Grace now, or at least I think I do. He meant that no matter what evil or hatred has been or is bestowed upon you that it doesn't matter because you are loved and forgiven by Jesus ,God, or Love. I think that's what he was saying through out the whole novel. That Grace is all around us and within us at all times. I can only think of love and this is the great power of the Universe. It cannot be beaten or destroyed and no one truly loses it, even if they are filled with so much hate as it seems to consume them, there is still so much love left for them. I do believe this is the underlying message of this wonderful and enlightening book that is difficult to describe in words, as words will only convey an injustice to the growth and meaning it had to me
I think the evidence for my pretext of meaning for this novel can be seen at the beginning of chapter five, after his spiritual confrontation with Mademoiselle, daughter of M. Le Cont e, where the young Priest is recollecting himself from what seems like a battle with satin himself. He is also analyzing introspectively his own interpretation of evil, and in the same instant his self-reproach to the meeting with Mademoiselle. In that way he reminds me of myself, for the Priest and I battle with similar demons. And with a higher consciousness which in a way is both a curse and gift that neither the Priest nor I can account for. I think he comes to an unconscious realization of what he always knew about evil and the Devil himself which prepares him for his second battle with evil or hate. I am not insinuating that the people themselves are the evil ones but thinking makes it so. He states in the beginning of Chapter five “ Solidarity in evil, there is the horror of it” (Bernanos 144). And later on the same page which is the most important of all, and I will expand on this further “ The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths” (144). The Priest talks about evil being so far from our understanding nor can he picture a hell as a world, or a universe. And that is it he has figured it out without an awareness of it. In that there is no hell or evil, it is misguided and needs to be led back home to truth. This what he realizes the devil and evil are all lies there is no truth in them.
He also states there is only one monster and criminal and he sucks down the crime unto himself. I get it complete, though difficult to delineate upon. Evil and hate are so far removed from reason and mental representation that it confuses the mind. It can distort emotion and feelings to the point of a madness where you can't think reasonably anymore as it consumes you. This is what I mean by evil really doesn't exist but the thinking makes it so. Agape love on the other hand is very different as it heals and protects. It is warm and bright. There is no confusion with agape love, it exists where you feel it and you know it personally and intimately. It requires no explanation and it is not analyzable because you are love. “Does it matter? Grace is everywhere....” (298)
I think there is so much meaning to this book and it is difficult to expound on without writing several hundred pages. I believe in this novel there is a hidden allegory of the temptation of Jesus by the spirit of the wilderness. Just as Jesus was led into the desert and it was not done by presumption on the part of Jesus, nor was it for mere display of resisting temptation from the devil. The devil was not the true opponent, oh but it may have been seen by the devil in that way, it was because Jesus wanted to test himself. All these attempts by the devil were to alienate Jesus from God, and in the same way the Priest in the novel is repeatedly drawn into battle of this nature regarding his allegiance to God. Though for the most part he believes, unconsciously, his greatest opponent was himself by his doubt, his self-reproach, his nightmares. But this was all illusion and in the end he does endeavor and knows truth and love are one with his conscience. I understand this battle very well and intimate, as though it is like second nature to me as I experience it day after day. But I read and I learn and I grow to understand myself and my weakness, along with my strengths.
I believe there are numerous references to my mentor Fydor Dostoevsky. George Bernano is in some way his protege and he might have out done his teacher in the art of trans-positioning allegory and symbolism in way that attaches to the unconsciousness. A remarkable feat if I may say so to read a novel and a physical change occurs within the plasticity of the brain. I study daily cognitive-behavioral and psychoanalytical science on my own time. I have read many and many of the greatest Nero-scientists and the there is a deep and overwhelming problem they are attempting to answer the mind-brain problem. There are in fact two problems the first attempts to understand how the brain processes representations in the form of neuronal behavior and neurotransmitters, that's the easy problem, the hard problem is the unconscious thing, such as why do you feel a certain way when you see the color red which might be a totally opposite way I feel about the color red. Or why do you appreciate a certain song, and the memory’s which pop up, without even wanting them to. Right know the things you are thinking are not chosen by you at all, but come into the conscious through the unconscious.
What I am getting at is there are only a few people that could probably solve a mystery as big as the one every Brain scientist on the planet are dealing with at present and one of the people being Dostoevsky and another now George Bernano. A human only has access to his unconscious through dreaming, however you are not in a conscious state when in REM sleep, but somehow these writers can gain access to it. It makes me wonder.
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Feb 08, 2013 Joy H. marked it as keep-in-mind

Shelves: fiction, christianity, adapted-to-film

Added 2/6/13.
I am about to watch the film adaptation of this book.
One of the reviewers at Netflix called it: "tedious, incomprehensible prattle".
I hope not!

Edit 2/8/13: I watched the movie. I, too, found much of the movie "incomprehensible". There's a lot of religious talk about faith and God, etc., which often seemed too ambiguous to follow.

The priest is always gloomy. He's sick and his parish doesn't accept him. He tries to help people but seems ineffectual.

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Sep 25, 2012 Seth Holler rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is most remarkable. In Marilynne Robinson's GILEAD (2005), to which it has been compared, the psychological drama is mostly displaced and off-stage; we get hints of the narrator's moral and spiritual growth. In THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, by contrast, the first-person accounts vividly reproduce what happened off-stage, so that one feels the writer's often painful growth. While the two novels are similar in form, the reading experience is quite different.

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Feb 19, 2012 Nick D rated it 3 of 5 stars

Like many diaries, this novel at first comes across as drifting in focus, centered on the mundane interactions with the priest's flock, fellow churchmen and suppliers of his wine and food. Bernanos is acutely aware of the jockeying within a parish: the importance of the priest's image among the churchgoers and among the Catholic hierarchy, and, most vividly, his relationship with the troubled family of the local nobility. The debates on faith and its nuances seem to last forever and turn on poin...more

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Oct 03, 2012 Anna Prejanò rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

La lettura in sequenza di “Sotto il sole di Satana” e “Diario di un curato di campagna” è un’esperienza talmente piena e appagante che la spiacevolezza delle antiquate traduzioni italiane (soprattutto del primo) passa in secondo piano. Tra i due romanzi, speculari e gemelli, c’è un rapporto analogo a quello tra una foto e il suo negativo. La luce manca del tutto in quello con il sole nel titolo. Tanto il primo romanzo è disperato, ambiguo, opprimente quanto il secondo trasmette serenità, compren...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Rozzer rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: france, reviewed, own, fiction

I read this while alone in Tokyo in November, 1975. Brrrr. The book sets forth in living black-and-white an aspect of France that many disregard: the terribly self-punishing, rigid, miserable, very November (of one's soul, so to speak) French Catholicism of times not all that very much gone by. I've never got it straight. Is THIS the Jansenist strain, Port-Royal and all that, or the other, more papistical orthodoxy? Shared with all too many Irish. Something severe, drizzling, gray, wintery, abso...more

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Aug 13, 2010 John rated it 5 of 5 stars

One of the most difficult tasks for any writer is to make a convincing portrayal of a truly good character. This was Dostoevasky's task when he wrote The Idiot, and it is Beranos's task in The Diary of a Country Priest. He succeeds beautifully.

The first person/diary approach to the narrative makes for an especially useful dramatic device, leaving a steady stream of self-doubt on the page from the lonely and inexperienced priest. That allows Beranos to develop the tension he needs around the char...more

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Aug 29, 2009 Allison rated it 2 of 5 stars

I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. I actually found it incredibly difficult to understand. Some of it, I think, was that it was poorly translated. I read a 1962 edition that doesn't even cite a translator -- so many of the sentences were so convoluted as to be utterly obtuse. Poor translation or witless reader? I never could figure out why Mlle Chantal was such an angry bitch and why she insisted on tormenting the priest. What was her secret? Was the priest an alcoholic or just...more

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Jun 04, 2011 Ryan Adair rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, leadership, pastoral-ministry

Eugene Peterson recommended this book as a way to steep oneself in the pastoral literature. That is where I first heard of it and why I picked it up. It was well worth the read.

A moving, Catholic novel by Bernanos, it is the diary of a 30-year old parish priest in a small country town. The diary records his wrestling with his own insignificance, his cowardice, and the interactions with the parishioners who are continually accusing him. On top of all this, he has an illness that is always wearin...more

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Mar 29, 2008 Karna Swanson rated it 1 of 5 stars

I was expecting great things, but I couldn't even get through half of it. Hard to follow, boring, lots of long discourses that didn't have a point. I don't know, didn't get it. I have a copy of it if you'd life to give it a whirl.

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Apr 25, 2008 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars

Very French, in that thoughtful way in which a lot happens without much outward movement. Moved me greatly in ways hard to describe, since I'm not a writer like Bernanos (or any other author).

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Dec 16, 2007 Ed rated it 5 of 5 stars

Read this book at a life-changing course taught by Robert Coles in College. Everytime I read this book or see the film version I am moved to think about the meaning of life/friendships/devotion, etc.

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Jun 19, 2009 Tricia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009

I found myself skimming the long tedious monologues through this book, which got me to the end quicker, but didn't give me the full picture of the book. At first I found myself interested in the main character's life, but as it took quite a while for the crux of the story to show itself (some could argue that the crux doesn't really show itself until the very end of the book...), I lost interest and could not immerse myself in the story. A good idea that has been used much more often in recent f...more

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Feb 15, 2011 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

Very good book. This is apparently a fairly classic Catholic work from the early 1900s and it is easy to see why. It really goes into the struggles of ordinary life and how Christianity is supposed to influence it, and the struggle between that and apathy and suffering etc. It is not easy to read... it seems like every line is loaded with (good or bad) ideas which ought to be considered, and it is written as if by a priest that came from a poor family as his personal diary, so he is the narrator...more

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Jul 08, 2011 Thomas rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, fiction

A record of, in some ways, the seeming futility and tedium of pastoral care and Christian leadership. At one point in the novel, the priest comments that his various battles spiritually and pastorally are a war of attrition - it's hard not to feel as though this book is itself a war of attrition for the reader given the length and oblique nature of some of the dialogues and monologues (and it is primarily a series of reserved monologues and dialogues). There are some striking philosophical zinge...more

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Jun 19, 2010 S. rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: gave-up, read-in-2010, buyer-s-remorse

I thought this was one of those books that comes with a “guarantee.” But of course no book comes with a blanket guarantee. Still, I’d read only glowing reviews and boy was I ready for a “triumphant experience.” But on p. 26 I couldn’t make heads or tails of what I was really reading about. On p. 54 the voice of the innocent and well-meaning young priest began to irk the shit out of me. On p. 55 I skipped ahead to see if anything would ever actually happen to dilute all the fluffy introspection a...more

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Aug 25, 2008 Ibrahim rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: literature, spirituality

Before his death on April 4th, 1947, Georges Bernanos gave a lecture in Tunisia entitled "Our Friends the Saints" which can teach us to say to the Lord, Lord, your love is infinite; I can't fathom it and it is sufficient for me, to which the Lord might answer us as he answered the mother who lost her little one,{ there is a mother who is hiding her face for the last time against the little heart that no longer throbs, a mother, close to her dead child, offering God the moaning of an exhausted re...more

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Jun 08, 2010 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this book concurrently in French and English - reading approximately 2 pages a day - as a way to keep up with my French. The book is the diary of a young priest attending to the needs of his country parishioners who are a difficult lot - and all the while he is quite ill, learning that his illness is stomach cancer. He always thinks he is failing as a priest but his saintliness becomes very apparent to the reader.

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Jun 20, 2011 Brad rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book was beautiful. It was intimate, personal, and effective. Perhaps a bit melodramatic at times, but it wouldn't have been much of a "journal novel" without some moments of intense internal "I wouldn't say this out loud, but..." type of drama. It really is heartbreaking to see this pure hearted young priest as he goes through his life and relationships. Well worth reading, without a doubt.

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Apr 17, 2012 Noam rated it 4 of 5 stars

man this was boss but i wish i were christian so it could be even better. angry atheists should probably read this, but who cares. it would be cool if more people could be like the priest in this, despite all the many, many capitalised pronouns and general floating dogma. forgiveness and finding "grace" in the face of being hated by everyone for being a runty little priest - talk about the story of my life!

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May 09, 2011 Theresa rated it 5 of 5 stars

The final line in the book tells it all, "Does it matter? Grace is everywhere." But of course, you need to read the whole to appreciate that line. A man who appears insignificant at best has an inner life that in the telling reveals the human condition redeemed by the love of God. The writing on the experience of impending death by disease is profound and poignant.

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Nov 15, 2012 E. rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone

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This book is amazing. The Little Priest in this book is now a friend close and dear to my heart. Reading this was a religious experience, and spiritually edifying.

"How little we know what a human life really is--even our own. To judge us by what we call our actions is probably futile as to judge us by our dreams. God's justice chooses from this dark conglomeration of thought and act, and that which is raised towards the Father shines with a sudden burst of light, displayed in glory like the sun...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Vincent rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

C'est un grand livre, émouvant, simple, puissant. Un magnifique portrait d'une France disparue, vue des yeux d'un prêtre touché par la grâce. Quelques longueurs en milieu de livre m'ont rebuté mais c'est oublié dès que l'on attaque le dernier tiers du livre. Et là on reste étourdi, par tant d'émotion et de justesse.

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