I was talking to a friend who said he had asked a priest acquaintance “Do you really believe in the Virgin Birth?”

This is a rationalist’s question but the delight of religion is not really a rational thing.

I was watching again the film “Into the Great Silence” about La Grande Chartreuse. What is important is the love of silence and thereby opening the door to joy. I remembered leaving the monastery Le Gugue, south of Poitiers, a few days before and seeing the door close behind me and my sadness. For a few moments in a busy journey, there was tranquillity.