A Thread of Scarlet
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A Thread of Scarlet
by Bruce Marshall
Léon Bloy’sThe Pilgrim of the Absolute offers one of the epigraphs to A Thread of Scarlet: “When we are not talking to God or for God, it is to the devil that we speak, and he listens to us in a formidable silence.” Donald Campbell, convert to Catholicism, confronts this conditional daily—for he is a priest. And as the devil says to the priest in Georges Bernanos’ Under the Sun of Satan, “I have you all numbered. Not one of you escapes me.” Father Campbell, however, as he moves from priesthood to episcopacy to the crowning achievement of a cardinal’s red hat, gives the lie to this boast of the Father of Lies. Determined to serve the Church and spread Christ’s Gospel, Father Campbell must accept that the Lord’s ways are not his ways, and that the only means to prove one’s own goodness is on the grounds of God’s good graces.
A worthy successor to Marshall’s Father Malachy’s Miracle and The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith, A Thread of Scarlet presents in riveting detail and with scintillating dialogue the drama of one man’s priestly life.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 200 pages
by Bruce Marshall
Léon Bloy’sThe Pilgrim of the Absolute offers one of the epigraphs to A Thread of Scarlet: “When we are not talking to God or for God, it is to the devil that we speak, and he listens to us in a formidable silence.” Donald Campbell, convert to Catholicism, confronts this conditional daily—for he is a priest. And as the devil says to the priest in Georges Bernanos’ Under the Sun of Satan, “I have you all numbered. Not one of you escapes me.” Father Campbell, however, as he moves from priesthood to episcopacy to the crowning achievement of a cardinal’s red hat, gives the lie to this boast of the Father of Lies. Determined to serve the Church and spread Christ’s Gospel, Father Campbell must accept that the Lord’s ways are not his ways, and that the only means to prove one’s own goodness is on the grounds of God’s good graces.
A worthy successor to Marshall’s Father Malachy’s Miracle and The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith, A Thread of Scarlet presents in riveting detail and with scintillating dialogue the drama of one man’s priestly life.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 200 pages
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