Agnes merely to set an example to weak people. I feel that his
goodness was with such energy fought for that it now exists as a
kind of complete thing and will go on existing when Father Rowley
himself is dead. I begin to understand the doctrine of the treasury
of merit. I remember you once told me how grateful I ought to be to
God because I had apparently escaped the temptations that attack
most boys. I am grateful; but at the same time I can't claim any
merit for it! The only time in my life when I might have acquired
any merit was when I was at Haverton House. Instead of doing that,
I just dried up, and if I hadn't had that wonderful experience at
Whitsuntide in Meade Cantorum church nearly three years ago I
should be spiritually dead by now.
This is a very long letter, and I don't seem to have left myself
any time to tell you about St. Agnes' Church. It reminds me of my
father's mission church in Lima Street, and oddly enough a new
church is being built almost next door just as one was being built
in Lima Street. I went to the children's Mass last Sunday, and I
seemed to see him walking up and down the aisle in his alb, and I
thought to myself that I had never once asked you to say Mass for
his soul.
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