Dan England and the Noonday Devil

by Myles Connolly

  63.Nineteenth-century Theories of Art, ed. Joshua C. Taylor (Berkeley: University of California, 1987), p. 448.

  64.Review of The Little Flower of Jesus, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 36, no. 10 (October 1901), p. 960.

  65.MB, pp. 75, 159.

  66.Naomi M. Maurer, The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gaugin (London: Associated University Presses, 1998), p. 36.

  67.Philippe de Montebello, Fra Angelico (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), p. vii.

  68.CE, “Gregorian Chant.”

  69.Sacrosanctum Concilium, §116.

  70.Fiona MacCarthy, “Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882–1940),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), online ed., September 2014.

  71.MB, pp. 89, 165–68.

  72.Acts 1:23.

  73.Acts 18:7.

  74.Col. 4:11.

  75.For a modern defense, see C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1960).

  76.Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, §3.

  77.ST III, q. 48, a. 2.

  78.Thoreau, Walden, p. 142.

  79.ST II-II, q. 141, a. 8.

  80.See CE, “Scholasticism.”

  81.Thomas Aquinas, Selected Writings, ed. Fr. Martin C. D’Arcy (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1939), p. 29.

  82.Ronald Knox, Book of Hours: Lectionary and Martyrology (Dourgne, France: Editions d’Encalcat, 1956), pp. 288–89.

  83.See “Aquinas’s Sermon for the Feast of Pentecost: A Rare Glimpse of Thomas the Preaching Friar,” trans. Peter Kwasniewski and Jeremy Holmes, Faith & Reason 30, nos. 1–2 (2005): pp. 99–139, note 10.

  84.Aquinas, Selected Writings, p. 24.

  85.See CE, “Corpus Christi” and “Orvieto.”

  86.Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” Emerson’s Complete Works, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1876), p. 52.

  87.CE, “Materialism.”

  88.CE, “Casuistry.”

  89.See CE, “Blaise Pascal.”

  90.Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker, Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case Against God (Steubenville: Emmaus Road, 2008), p. 21.

  91.John Henry Cardinal Newman, A Grammar of Assent, The Works of Cardinal Newman, vol. 16 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), pp. 94–95.

  92.See MB, pp. 21–22, 36. Connolly uses the word “pennon,” a flag appropriate for a soldier.

  93.See CE, “The Carthusian Order.”

  94.David Weir, Decadence and the Making of Modernism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), p. 5.

  95.Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, 4th ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 73. See especially n. 1.

  96.Michael Freeman, François Villon in His Works: The Villain’s Tale (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2000), p. 261, n. 21.

  97.See GG, pp. 182–83.

  98.The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, trans. David Lewis, vol. 2 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), p. 390.

  99.The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. (Washington, DC: ICS, 1991), pp. 87–88, §27.

  100.Ibid., p. 86, §16.

  101.Ibid., p. 95, §124.

  102.Ibid., The Ascent of Mount Carmel, II.5.3, 163.

  103.Laurence Housman, Echo de Paris (London: J. Cape, 1923), p. 15.

  104.Stephen Walsh, The New Grove Stravinsky (London: Macmillan, 2002), pp. 12–13.

  105.John 2:1–11.

  106.Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. J. A. Fuller Maitland, vol. 3 (New York: Macmillan, 1907), p. 304.

  107.Ibid.

  108.Ibid., n. 3.

  109.“Mozart as a Freemason,” The New England Freemason 2, no. 4 (April 1875): p. 181.

  110.Hermann Abert, W. A. Mozart (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 1336.

  111.CE, “Virtue.”

  112.Ibid.

  113.Ibid.

  114.CE, “Holy Ghost.”

  115.Ibid.

  116.John 1:47.

  117.Pope John Paul II, “General Audience,” §3.

  118.Left Catholicism 1943–1955: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation, ed. Gerd-Rainer Horn and Emmanuel Gerard (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001), p. 122.

  119.Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, §3.

  120.CW, Vol. 1, p. 295.

  121.John 9:6; Luke 10:25–37.

  122.Peter Kreeft, Angels (and Demons) (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995), p. 121.

  123.CW, Vol. 2, p. 485.

  124.MB, p. 80.

  125.CE, “Sloth.”

  126.Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B., The Noonday Devil: Acedia, The Unnamed Evil of Our Times (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2015), p. 11.

  127.Ibid., p. 202.

  128.Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus, trans. Robert E. Sinkewicz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 102, §28. See also p. 99, §12.

  129.Thoreau, Walden, p. 144.

  130.Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II: A Complete History of Japanese Suicide Strikes on American Ships (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2010), p. 181.

  131.See CE, “Sistine Choir.”

  132.CE, “Prime.”

  133.See CE, “Congo.”

  134.See Penny Lernoux, Hearts on Fire: The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters (1993; repr. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2012), esp. chapters 3–5.

  135.CE, “Charles-Martial-Allemand Lavigerie”

  136.William Sharp, “Cardinal Lavigerie’s Work in North Africa,” The Atlantic Monthly 74, no. 442 (August 1894): p. 223.

  137.William H. Young, The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia, vol. 2 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007), p. 112.

  138.Wolfgang Zank, The German Melting Pot: Multiculturality in Historical Perspective (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998), p. 129.

  139.Ibid.

  140.Acts 14:26 (Douay-Rheims); Acts 14:27 in modern translations.

  141.Pope Benedict XVI, Apostolic Letter “Motu Proprio Data” Porta Fidei (October 11, 2011).

  142.CW, Vol. 11, 384. Or, see Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, p. 54.

  143.Frank Capra, The Name above the Title (1971; repr. Boston: Da Capo, 1997), p. 383.

  144.Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Romances, Vol. 6 (Edinburgh: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1896), p. 230.

  145.Upon reading Bloy, O’Connor wrote in her prayer journal, “He is an iceberg hurled at me to break up my Titanic and I hope my Titanic will be smashed.” Flannery O’Connor, A Prayer Journal (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2013), p. 33.

  146.Understanding Maritain: Philosopher and Friend, ed. Deal Wyatt Hudson and Matthew J. Mancini (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1987), p. 81.

  147.Emmanuela Polimeni, Léon Bloy, the Pauper Prophet: 1846–1917 (1947; repr. New York: Philosophical Library, 1951), p. 51.

  148.Arnold Sparr, To Promote, Defend, and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920–1960 (New York: Greenwood, 1990), p. 125.

  149.John 19:17.

  150.See CE, “Mount Calvary.”

  151.See MB, pp. 41–43.

  152.Francis Bacon, “Essays, Civil and Moral,” The Works of Lord Bacon, Vol. 1 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854), p. 266.

  153.CE, “Beatific Vision.” See also CE, “Heaven.”

  154.CW, Vol. 1, p. 326.

  155.Mart Laar, War in the Woods: Estonia’s Struggle for Survival, 1944–1956, trans. Tiina Ets (Washington, DC: The Compass, 1992), p. xxi.

  156.Alexandra Ashbourne, Lithuania: The Rebirth of a Nation, 1991–1994 (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 1999), p. 33, n. 86.

  157.Matt. 6:25.

  158.Matt. 28:3. See also Luke 9:29.

  159.Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City, ed. Andrew F.
Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 357.

  160.Matt. 16:25.

  161.“Literary Digressions,” Catholic Insight (December 2014): pp. 13–15.

  162.Oscar Wilde, The Works of Oscar Wilde (New York: Lamb Publishing, 1909), pp. 115–16.

  163.See MB, pp. 62, 150–52.

  164.CE, “Altar Lamp.”

  165.MB, p. 122.

  166.See MB, pp. 122, 196.

  167.“Ordinary of the Mass,” The Catholic’s Pocket Prayer-book: Compiled from Approved Sources (Boston: Thomas J. Flynn & Company, 1899), p. 40.

  168.CCC, §2539.

  169.Ps. 110:10; Prov. 1:7; Prov. 9:10; Sir. 1:16.

  170.CW, Vol. 1, p. 306.