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A priest’s world is torn apart by loyalty, love, and longing for freedom. In Gerald O’Donovan’s Father Ralph, a conflicted priest faces a mortal tumble of faith, family, and identity as he seeks a path that might break his vows and his sense of belonging.
The story follows his return from a life of duty into a pressure-filled world where hometown ties, church authority, and national sentiment collide. Through intimate scenes and small, vivid details, the book explores how one man negotiates creed, conscience, and the dawning realization that every choice can carry a heavy cost.
- Raw emotional moments as a man confronts his past and his future.
- Quiet, humane depictions of Irish family life and parish loyalties.
- Scenes of travel, longing, and the ache of isolation from community and country.
- A rare portrait of personal revolt against rigid duty and the search for selfhood.
Ideal for readers who appreciate character-driven fiction set against a rural‑Irish backdrop, with moral questions that linger long after the last page.
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Stephen's Green Park where he slept, or lay silently watching the ducks, while Ann Carty told her beads. When eleven o'clock mass was over at Clarendon Street, he was taken to the Carmelite church. Ann took him out of his pram, and bore him in her arms to the rails of the high altar, where she knelt and prayed. She entered whole-heartedly into his mother's schemes for his future, and always said a special round of the beads that he should be a good priest. Very soon he began to notice the dead Christ in its glass case under the table of the high altar. When his eyes caught it, he stretched out his arms and gurgled. The first day it happened Ann hurried home with the wonderful story to Mrs. O'brien, who came herself next day to see the miraculous happening.
As he grew older, even before he was able to walk, Ann took him to eleven o'clock mass. The heavy incense-laden atmosphere kept Ralph quiet and sleepy. Ann told his mother, he had that reverence for the house of God that he never let a cry out of him. When awake his eyes were fixed on the high altar at which the priest was celebrating mass. An ordinary observer would perhaps attribute this to the attraction of the light, but to Ann he was taking it all in, and learning how to say the mass one day himself.
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It was his mother's idea that Ralph O'Brien should be a priest. She had brooded happily on the thought for months before his birth. She had prayed that her first-born should be a son, and never doubted that it would be. He was to grow up unspotted from the world, holy as a priest of God should be. Day after day at mass in Clarendon Street Church she dedicated him to God. One day, during the consecration of the mass, when the child in her womb quickened, as if in response to a question as to whether he would wish to serve God at the altar, she took it as a sign from heaven. When the child was born, she looked on him as the child of miracle. She had prayed for a son and a son had been given to her. She had promised that he should be a priest; it was because of the promise her son had been given.
The nursery of her house in Harcourt Terrace was hung with religious prints: St. Francis Xavier preaching to the Japanese, St. Stanislaus Kotska, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, the Sacred Heart. Mrs. O'Brien kept on her monthly nurse in charge of Ralph, while she sought for a suitable permanent nurse.
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Condición: New. KlappentextrnrnExcerpt from Father RalphStephen s Green Park where he slept, or lay silently watching the ducks, while Ann Carty told her beads. When eleven o clock mass was over at Clarendon Street, he was taken to the Carmelite church. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2147842181
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