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(Left) G.K. Chesterton in an undated photo. (Public Domain).... (Right) In a video released Sept. 21 by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Fondong is seen entering the burned-out church and making his way through the rubble until he reaches the tabernacle, placed on a wall next to a cross. (photo: Unsplash)
By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, May 29, 2024
Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). …
For Chesterton, belief in the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament was the very touchstone of truth.
This year, the feast of Corpus Christi falls one day after the 150th anniversary of the birth of G.K. Chesterton. Coincidentally and providentially, Chesterton also died within the octave of Corpus Christi, on the Sunday after the traditional feast day, which is the date that it is celebrated in the Ordinary Form in the United States. And there is even the suggestion of an additional touch of divine or providential humor in the Introit for that day’s Mass, which was printed on Chesterton’s memorial card and seemed to connect his own “corpus” and especially its corpulence with his deliverance into the heavenly banquet:
The Lord became my protector and He brought me forth into a large place. He saved me because He was pleased with me. I will love thee O Lord my strength. The Lord is my firmament and my refuge and my deliverer. …
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