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A Rocking Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader
A Rocking Horse Catholic A Caryll Houselander Reader Author:Marie Anne Mayeski (Editor) A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader is a selection of the writings of a modern Catholic laywomen and mystic, with a biographical introduction by the editor, Marie Anne Mayeski. — Caryll Houselander is a prophet for our times, giving testimony to deep loyalty- in most personal way- to Church, to country, to family. For Chris... more »tian women, her voice is even more urgent in a time of competing feminisms and claims of loyalty.
The writings of Caryll Houselander form one small but provocative piece of the history of women in the Christian tradition. They portray the gospel message forged into her own synthesis, at once deeply personal and profoundly traditional. Now a part of that tradition, hers is a voice of experience, insight, wisdom.
Her life speaks as powerfully as do her words: an asceticism imposed by the Second World War, public service negotiated in an intensely private vocation, a single life particularly devoted to children. In the writings collected here, she shows herself to be a person whose religion relates to real life.« less