Brian Redfern


Jesuits

1990-12-22

I remember the day I gave up. I tried to be a good Catholic, I really did. When I was thirteen I had wanted to be a priest even, and not just some run of the mill parish priest, but a Jesuit!

I used to say five or even ten Hail Marys and Our Fathers and a decade of the rosary every day just to save the world.

But then something happened. It fell down like a huge wall between me and what I was supposed to be.