Here’s how this week’s arts and column begins:
People often ask for reading suggestions this time of year. One book I always recommend as we approach Christmas is “The Prison Meditations of Father Delp” (Herder & Herder, $22.98).
A Jesuit priest, Father Alfred Delp (1907-1945) wrote with his wrists manacled, largely during Advent, while awaiting execution by the Nazis. A sampling:
“Life means waiting, not Faust-like grasping, but waiting and being ready. … Anyone who remains stuck, waiting in fearful expectation just to see whether or not he will survive, has not yet laid bare the innermost strata. For the fearful expectation was sent to us in order to remove our false sense of security and behind it is this other metaphysical waiting that is part of existence.”
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