More wisdom from Abigail Favale, Ph.D.
Consider the quiet intimacy Mary shared with Jesus for the better part of a year, before anyone else had glimpsed his face. She carried him under her heart. She felt his quickening, Life itself becoming life in the flesh. This is a special kind of knowing only a pregnant woman can experience: the paradox of loving a person that one has never seen or touched but is also somehow always touching, in a mysterious and veiled way. This is not unlike the experience of faith; we see now darkly, through the veil, what we will one day see face-to-face.
—Abigail Favale, Ph.D.
from her book, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion
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A SPIRITUAL ODYSSEY
Into the Deep traces one woman’s spiritual odyssey from birthright evangelicalism through postmodern feminism and, ultimately, into the Roman Catholic Church. As a college student, Abigail Favale experienced a feminist awakening that reshaped her life and faith. A decade later, on the verge of atheism, she found herself entering the oldest male-helmed institution on the planet—the last place she expected to be.
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