![]() ![]() Paul’s words in the Letter to the Romans: “where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more.” Without affect, sentimentality, or illusion her writing expresses the realities of the Catholic faith-the tragedy of human sinfulness and the depth of God’s grace poured out for us in Christ-and embodied in Mary and His Saints. ![]() Sigrid Undset became one of my favorite authors because her writing reveals that rare perception of the pain and beauty of St. The tome sat at the bottom of a stack for while, but in the end, I fell in love with Kristin Lavransdatter, which I have often described as not unlike Augustine’s Confessions if the Confessions were written in third person feminine voice and set in medieval Scandinavia. ![]() It took a few years and a couple of starts and stops to get through this massive historical novel set in medieval Catholic Norway. He puts a story in your hands and says, “I think you’ll really like this.” I was in my mid-twenties when my father handed me his 1929 edition of Sigrid Undset’s Nobel Prize-winning trilogy, Kristen Lavransdatter, and said, “I think you’ll really like this.” This is typically how my dad makes his book recommendations. ![]()
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