Strange Gods Before Me Virgin Mary First published in English in

First published in English in 1949

their community has been sifted like wheat: the youngest among them

without a doubt

and the Christian home

I have no idea

Strange Gods Before Me Virgin Mary First published in English inBy Mother Mary Francis, P. C. C. In the immediate wake of the Second Vatican Council there followed a tragic abundance of misconceptions and misrepresentations of the nature and function of monastic contemplative life. Still more tragically, those misconceptions and misrepresentations still plague the Church and the world to the present day. As a result, Strange Gods Before Me (which first appeared in 1965) remains pointedly relevant. Mother Mary