Sr. Mariella Gable, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Sr. Mariella Gable

Mariella Gable, O.S.B., (1898–1985) was a sister in the Order of St. Benedict and an author and literary critic. Professor of English at the College of St. Benedict from 1928 to 1973, she contributed greatly to the appreciation for and scholarship on Catholic literature, especially with her fiction anthologies (They Are People, Our Father’s House, and Many-Colored Fleece) and her book of critical essays, This Is Catholic Fiction.

Our Father’s House

By Sr. Mariella Gable|2024-01-14T15:14:35-06:00January 13th, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Literature|

God is the complete satisfaction of our need to know and to love. He is all Truth, utterly lovable. But God must be known for what He is, else an appropriate response to Him cannot be made. Philosophy and theology tell us, but not so effectively as does Dante, who has made us see what [...]