Catholicism And Faith

Question 1

Oh dear

Answer 1

ITS very difficult being a catholic

Question 2

Waugh on the role of religion in the novel

Answer 2

It is an “operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters”

Question 3

Julia on raising her child a catholic

Answer 3

“That’s one thing I can give her . It doesn’t seem to have done me much good, but my child shall have it.

Question 4

Julia on sin

Answer 4

Mummy dying with my sin eating at her(…) mummy dying with it; Christ dying with it, nailed hand and foot; hanging over the bed in the night nursery”

Question 5

Marchmain cross veiling of temple

Answer 5

Lord Marchmain made the sign of the cross (…) and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom”

Question 6

The chapel showed

Answer 6

No I’ll-effects of its long neglect

Question 7

I said a prayer,

Answer 7

An ancient, newly-learned form of words

Question 8

Julia wherever she

Answer 8

Wherever she turned, it seemed, her religion stood as a barrier between her and her natural goal”

Question 9

I’m saving

Answer 9

Rex from mortal sin

Question 10

There’s him gone

Answer 10

And Sebastian gone and Julia gone. But God won’t let them go for long, you know.

Question 11

I caught him with an unseen hook

Answer 11

And an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread