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Review of Dan Paulos' Behold the Women
EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER FROM
DAME FELICITAS CORRIGAN, O.S.B.
(renowned Benedictine author)
Behold The Women is original and it is quite thrilling. I took it to
recreation
yesterday, and the photographs, some of them more like oil portraits, and oh so
attractive,
so spiritual yet so human, so wise with a glint of shrewd, mischief in the
glance of the eye,
simply enthralled a group of all ages sitting at the round table. Lady Abbess
wonders
whether we could read it aloud in the refectory. I think we could, so long as
the readers
announced the author of each entry before reading the narrative. D.P. would
have to
submit to his full-name authorship. Abraham Lincoln's tribute to the heroism
of Catholic
nuns during the Civil War makes one so proud: that is woman's work in God's
plan --- not
the priestly ministry. Man is the intellect, the brain, ikon of Divine Wisdom:
Woman is the
heart, equally indispensable, ikon of Divine Love, the Holy Spirit. Parts of
your book
reduced me to tears. I am merely a woman!
Some of the text is most professionally written such as Fr. Daniel
Berrigan. The
figures spring to life: the simplicity, directness, actuality of each entry
appeals to me very
much. It is, I think, an American virtue and an admirable one. I saw of
course your own
dear Sister Mary Jean, with her clever and so witty verse and her deeply
spiritual insights.
The book will fascinate and illumine us for a long time to come. THANK YOU.
It is quite
the loveliest gift I received this Easter!
Stanbrook Abbey
Worcester, England
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paulos@nmia.com