Hanging On In There: An Essay in Meaning (Selected Poems) spo-disabled for he is our Savior

for he is our Savior

prepared shortly before Georges Bernanos’s death

By Étienne Gilson

Reader in Theology at Blackfriars

Hanging On In There: An Essay in Meaning (Selected Poems) spo-disabled for he is our SaviorBy Marie Nol Presented and translated by Pauline Matarasso Midway through her poignant Office for a Dead Child, Marie Nol makes a ready admission of the limitations of language in the pursuit of meaning: The words come readily to mind, The meaning though is hard to find. Yet, for this seemingly ordinary French woman, words were of paramount importance. They were the receptacle in which could be safely stored the meaning God entrusted to me, for whom,