Flannery's Voice...Literally
Here is a lecture given at Notre Dame a year before her death.
View ArticleFrom Brad Gooch biography of O'Connor
I went to St. Mary's as it was right around the corner and I could get there practically every morning. I went there three years and never knew a soul in that congregation or any of the priests, but it...
View ArticleFrom Notre Dame lecture on Southern Fiction
Compassion is a word that sounds good in anybody's mouth...It's a quality that no one can put his finger on in any exact critical sense, so the word is always safe for anybody to use. Thomas Mann has...
View ArticleFrom "Habit of Being"
Anyway, don't think I am suggesting you read the Office everyday. It's just a good thing to know about, I say Prime in the morning and sometimes I say Compline at night but usually I don't. But anyway...
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A Review: "Flannery: A Life" by Brad Gooch
Brad Gooch, in his biography of Flannery O'Connor, quotes his subject: "There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make...
View ArticleFrom The Presence of Grace
In genuine tragedy and comedy, the definite is explored to its extremity and man is shown to be the limited creature he is, and it is at this point of greatest penetration of the limited that the...
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He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic’s ‘cramp of salvation’ — obsession with personal salvation — an anguish transmuted into charity, anguish for another. Thus for...
View ArticleOne more from The Presence of Grace
Some of the most interesting parts of the book are hints thrown off in passing which show that attention to the study of archetypes could benefit the Church in some of the acute pastoral problems she...
View ArticleWise Blood Excerpt
Pg 16 of Three by Flannery O'Connor, from the story Wise Blood:They were like stones! he would shout. But Jesus had died to redeem them! Jesus was so soul-hungry that He had died, one death for all,...
View ArticleFlannery quoted by Philip Yancey in Feb 2009 "First Things"
The Catholic writer, insofar as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying...
View ArticleAnother View of Recent Biography
Ralph C. Wood, author of "Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South" has a more critical view of the recent Gooch biography:Gooch lays O’Connor’s genuine distinctiveness to the side, and thus...
View ArticleFrom The Habit of Being...
I am reading the [Simone] Weil books now, having finished the Letters to a Priest and I am very much obliged to you and will keep these books until you want them. I am struck by the coincidence (?) of...
View ArticleLetter from FOC:
The business of the broken sleep is interesting, but the business of sleep generally is interesting. I once did without it almost all the time for several weeks. I had high fever and was taking...
View Articlefrom "The Church & the Fiction Writer"
What the Catholic fiction writer must realize is that those who question [the faith] are not insane at all, they are not utterly foolish and irrelevant, they are for the most part acting according to...
View ArticleRegarding A Good Man is Hard to Find
Grace to the Catholic way of thinking, can and does use as its medium the imperfect, purely human, and even hypocritical. Cutting yourself off from Grace is a very decided matter, requiring a real...
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Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
View ArticleFrom Letter 3/10/56....
When we think about the Crucifixition, we miss the point if we don't think about sin. [Found here.]
View ArticleFrom Mystery and Manners
People without hope not only don't write novels...they don't read them. They don't take long looks at anything...— via Ignatius Insight twitter feed
View ArticleGrace and Sentiment
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. — Mystery...
View ArticleExcerpt of Poem by Maxine Kumin
ON VISITING FLANNERYO'CONNOR'S GRAVEMilledgeville, Ga., 1988--MAXINE KUMIN...but first, an historic detour just this sideof what the local intelligentsiain fond self-deprecation call Mudvilleto take...
View ArticlePornography
Pornography...is essentially sentimental, for it leaves out the connection of sex with its hard purpose, and so far disconnects it from its meaning in life as to make it an experience for its own...
View ArticleFrom The Habit of Being...
There is a moment of grace in most of the stories, or a moment where it is offered, and usually rejected. Like when the Grandmother recognizes the Misfit as one of her children (a child of God) and...
View ArticleOn Sex
The modern man isolated from faith, from raising his desire for God into a conscious desire, is sunk into the position of seeing physical love as an end it itself...The Sex act is a religious act &...
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