Jose Ovalle’s Reviews > Father Elijah: An Apocalypse > Status Update

This book is Catholic but it offers such a detailed account of how liberalism creeps into churches. So many emotions.

“I am not prompted to such rash devotion by the faith you want from me. Though, perhaps it is a kind of faith, a return to the beginnings to see if what was lost may again be found. In solitude, in exile, we come to know what cannot otherwise be known; we remember what we saw and see it for the first time”

Why don’t reformed people write fiction lol

“I listen in the darkness for God”, Pawel said. “That is a beautiful thing”, said the boy... “Is it a lonely thing?”

“Sometimes it is. I live here in this great city like a monachus, a solitary one. I pray. I work. I put good books into the hands of people. Perhaps good thoughts are born in their minds. That is my calling.”

““Do you see these wounds? These bruises?” “Yes.”
“They are my joy.”
“Pain is your joy?”
“The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.”