{"product_id":"a-thread-of-scarlet","title":"A Thread of Scarlet","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Bruce Marshall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLéon Bloy’s \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-pilgrim-of-the-absolute\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-pilgrim-of-the-absolute\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim of the Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e offers one of the epigraphs to \u003ci\u003eA Thread of Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e: “When we are not talking to God or for God, it is to the devil that we speak, and he listens to us in a formidable silence.” Donald Campbell, convert to Catholicism, confronts this conditional daily—for he is a priest. And as the devil says to the priest in Georges Bernanos’ \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/under-the-sun-of-satan\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/under-the-sun-of-satan\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder the Sun of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, “I have you all numbered. Not one of you escapes me.” Father Campbell, however, as he moves from priesthood to episcopacy to the crowning achievement of a cardinal’s red hat, gives the lie to this boast of the Father of Lies. Determined to serve the Church and spread Christ’s Gospel, Father Campbell must accept that the Lord’s ways are not his ways, and that the only means to prove one’s own goodness is on the grounds of God’s good graces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Church was the immense hotch-potch of the baptised, longing to know or afraid to know. The Church was a thread of scarlet. The Church was a mirror held up. The Church was God’s tent pitched on earth. Even at its grubbiest the Church was marked and the assertion made.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA worthy successor to Marshall’s \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/father-malachys-miracle\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/father-malachys-miracle\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFather Malachy’s Miracle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe World, the Flesh, and Father Smith\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Thread of Scarlet \u003c\/i\u003epresents in riveting detail and with scintillating dialogue the drama of one man’s priestly life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Marshall \u003c\/b\u003e(1899–1987) was a Scottish writer, accountant, veteran of both World Wars, and convert to Roman Catholicism. In a career spanning six decades, Marshall wrote forty novels, five of which will feature in the Cluny Classics series: \u003ci\u003eFather Malachy’s Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Month of the Falling Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Accounting\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVespers in Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Thread of Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951375\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51320584110368,"sku":"978-1685951375","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3678\/2112\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--736.jpg?v=1773076011","url":"https:\/\/treewee.store\/products\/a-thread-of-scarlet","provider":"Tree of Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}