Author Evelyn Waugh describes Monsignor Ronald Knox’s prayer after his entrance into the Catholic Church: He told a friend that in his first months as a Catholic he received the “consolations” he needed and often ran to church in his impatience to begin his prayers. He looked forward to his meditations as periods of pure joy. And at St. Edmund’s it was his radiant devotion which most impressed his more discerning colleagues. The present Bishop of Lancaster, Dr. Flynn, writes: “My most outstanding memory of him [at St. Edmund’s] is his absorption in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. That
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