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Dom Aelred Watkin (1918-1997) was a wise and respected Head Master of Downside from 1962 to 1975.
Dom Aelred wrote little, preferring to communicate with a live audience, so "Resurrection is Now" is a rare opportunity to benefit from his understanding. A learned man, Dom Aelred nevertheless wears his learning lightly, and the reader will find something enlightening on almost every page.
From the opening chapter:
"All, even the most superficial, have at times felt that there is something 'other', something 'further', something 'beyond' ordinary experience; have had the feeling that the whole of what we are or would be is not realised in the situation in which we find ourselves; have come to the conviction that 'more' and 'better' exist beyond what we have experienced hitherto. Just as children in the murmur of a shell held up to the ear listen to the swell and surge of the sea, so we, from time to time, seem to catch echoes and intimations of a life, a vigour and a meaning which exist beyond familiar sights and sounds. Even in ecstatic happiness we sense that there is something more, something not yet attained; in sorrow we are aware poignantly of so much that apparently has been held from us... "
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