Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery
As a belated tribute to Monsignor Knox for August 24th, the 50th anniversary of his death, we offer the following words from his sermon on St Edward the Confessor, which could easily have applied to Knox himself:
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Man's happiness lies in devoting himself; his success is the offering he can make. And [he] was a successful man, yes, even in this world, because in his simple piety, in the unaffected geneorsity of his nature, he set himself to serve the men about him, by easing their burdens, by relieving their necessities, by confirming them in their allegiance to the Faith.
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And from his Retreat in Slow Motion is the following passage which could well apply to the rest of us:
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And now that it is all over, because death has come; and we wrap it all up in a parcel, as it were, and throw it woards Him, like a bad peice of knitting for his acceptance. "Take it, Lord; I know I've made a mess of it again and again, this life you gave me to live; the pattern hasn't been your pattern, and there have been lose edges everywhere. But it was meant to be like your Son's life, a sacrifice; take it, please, and make what you can of it; I have come to the end of the skein now."
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