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Bishop Barron called this “the finest Catholic novel of the twentieth century.”

It is a remarkable story about love and loss, sin and forgiveness, grace and redemption, beauty and truth, and it is a must-read, especially for Catholics.




 
Brideshead Revisited
By Evelyn Waugh
Foreword by Bishop Robert Barron
Word on Fire Classics | July 22, 2024
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Mark Galli was the editor in chief of Christianity Today for seven years, a Presbyterian pastor for ten years, and a passionate evangelical Protestant since first responding to an altar call in 1965 at thirteen years old. But in 2020, Galli formally returned to the faith in which he was baptized as an infant: the Roman Catholic Church. 

With All the Saints: My Journey to the Roman Catholic Church is the compelling memoir of one man’s search for the fullness of truth. Through honest and engaging storytelling, Galli recounts the various spiritual, theological, mystical, and ecclesial tributaries that led him to “cross the Tiber” back to Catholicism. Each tradition he passed through—Evangelical, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox—he embraced without satisfaction and left without bitterness, drawing him finally to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church: a Church of saints and sinners, all striving together in the great company of heaven; a Church that he could finally call home.

Honest, insightful, and entertaining, With All the Saints is a memorable love letter to Christ and his Church.
















 

 
 
 
  

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 







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About Brideshead Revisited



 
Brideshead Revisited details the journey of Charles Ryder, who, through the memories of his interactions with an aristocratic English family, encounters various episodes of conversion and experiences the illuminating power of divine grace—which, in the words of G.K. Chesterton, tugs on human hearts “with a twitch upon the thread.”

Lodged between two world wars and burdened by the stark collapse of culture, Charles Ryder comes face to face with the perils of sin and confronts the inescapable yearnings of faith.

Brideshead Revisited is regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time. It is a moving and compelling story about love and loss, sin and forgiveness, grace and redemption, beauty and truth, and it is a must-read, especially for Catholics.


























 
 
 










 
 

  
  
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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An Excerpt from the Foreword

 

By Bishop Robert Barron



Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is, in my judgment, the finest Catholic novel of the twentieth century. What explains its greatness? It is Waugh’s illuminating portrait of a theme with particular evangelical import in our culture today: the power of beauty.
 
The book’s narrator, Charles Ryder, is an Oxford student and devotee of the fine arts who is, like a lot of people today, something of a cool agnostic. Ryder first becomes intrigued by the beauty of his Oxford classmate, Sebastian Flyte, the scion of an old recusant and fabulously wealthy Catholic family in 1920s England. Sebastian, in turn, brings him to the family mansion, “Brideshead.” In the complex semiotic schema of Waugh’s novel, the mansion functions as a symbol of the Catholic Church, combining two Pauline images—namely, of Christ as Bridegroom to his Bride and as Head to his Body. 

Charles is overwhelmed by the sheer majesty of Brideshead’s architecture and the sumptuousness of its artistic program, which includes magnificent painting and sculpture, a fountain of Bernini-like delicacy, and a chapel that was a riot of baroque decoration. Moving from room to room, convinced by the overall “logic” of the design, Charles remarks, “It was an aesthetic education to live within those walls.” So intense is his aesthetic experience at the fountain that he could say, “I felt a whole new system of nerves alive within me, as though the water that spurted and bubbled among its stones was indeed a life-giving spring.” The beauty of the place—evocative of the Church’s aesthetic richness—would entrance Charles for the rest of his life, drawing him back again and again.

Indeed, Waugh’s novel is ultimately about the process by which God calls his children back to himself—even those who have drifted to the furthest edge. The characters are lured by Brideshead’s beauty, repelled by its demands, and, finally, brought back by “a twitch upon the thread”—an image derived from one of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories: “I caught [the thief], with an unseen hook 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.” The overarching theme of Waugh’s great novel seems to be that once one has been entranced by Christ, there is, finally, no escape.


 

Contents


 



Foreword by Bishop Robert Barron

Dedication

Preface by Evelyn Waugh

Prologue: Brideshead Revisited

Book One: Et in Arcadia Ego

1: I meet Sebastian Flyte—and Anthony Blanche—I visit Brideshead for the first time

2: My cousin Jasper’s Grand Remonstrance—a warning against charm—Sunday morning in Oxford

3: My father at home—Lady Julia Flyte

4: Sebastian at home—Lord Marchmain abroad

5: Autumn in Oxford—dinner with Rex Mottram and supper with Boy Mulcaster—Mr. Samgrass—Lady Marchmain at home—Sebastian contra mundum

Book Two: Brideshead Deserted

1: Samgrass revealed—I take leave of Brideshead—Rex revealed 

2: Julia and Rex

3: Mulcaster and I in defense of our country—Sebastian abroad—I take leave of Marchmain House 

Book Three: A Twitch upon the Thread 

1: Orphans of the storm

2: Private view—Rex Mottram at home

3: The fountain

4: Sebastian contra mundum

5: Lord Marchmain at home—death in the Chinese drawing-room—the purpose revealed

Epilogue: Brideshead Revisited

 


 


 
 


About the Author

About the Author


 
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was an acclaimed English author who converted to the Catholic Church in 1930. His most famous book, Brideshead Revisited, a fictional narrative of the workings of grace, is regarded as one of the greatest English-language novels ever written.
 

Introducing Word on Fire Spark!

 
If you have children in your life, you want to cultivate wonder and joy in their hearts. In a world full of noise and distraction, you want their imagination to be formed by beauty so they will be drawn to God who is Beauty itself. You want them to be inspired by the saints and led to holiness. Word on Fire Spark is publishing the resources you have been waiting for. Spark offers carefully crafted stories with stunning illustrations designed to turn young hearts to the Gospel. 
 
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