Heroes of Distant Days.
To badly misuse C S Lewis, "A middle aged man can't be too carefully with his reading". Or more importantly, beware what you take home with you from the Abbey! In my usual raiding of the Abbey reading room ( I am very spoilt in been allowed to borrow from the monks) I came across this large tomb, "Literary Converts". A great book. A fantastic read. Food for my soul. It recounts the spiritual journeys, generally to the Roman Catholic Church but not exclusively, from the late 19th centuries until the last quarter of the 20th. Great writers and great people are discussed. Tolkien, Lewis, G K Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc , Ronald Knox, C S Lewis, Graeme Green, Evelyn Waugh and so the list goes on. As I look back, I think reading the Narnia series changed me and started this journey. Inside, it made me long for something. Something mysterious and perhaps, just out of reach. I have talked before about this being a sense of " Northerness ", a need for m