Sorry to comment again, I just couldn't stop thinking about this! I can definitely picture him sobbing over a rosary: the moment when he can't keep reciting the prayers, when the words leave him and he's just left clutching at the beads, thinking not my will, but Yours - but how could this possibly be Your will? and he doesn't have any prayer more coherent than please please please... (Definitely not extrapolating from personal experience, haha) I think the reason that sobbing over a rosary is such a powerful image is that it encapsulates the feeling of reaching out in a moment of crisis for something that has brought you comfort in the past and finding none.
On a different note, I read a book recently called Wisdom of the Desert, a collection of sayings and parables by the early Christian Desert Fathers edited and translated by Thomas Merton, and it gave me major Jedi vibes!
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Date: 2020-06-01 01:41 am (UTC)(Definitely not extrapolating from personal experience, haha)
I think the reason that sobbing over a rosary is such a powerful image is that it encapsulates the feeling of reaching out in a moment of crisis for something that has brought you comfort in the past and finding none.
On a different note, I read a book recently called Wisdom of the Desert, a collection of sayings and parables by the early Christian Desert Fathers edited and translated by Thomas Merton, and it gave me major Jedi vibes!