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“You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day."
-- St. Athanasius
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Though her words do not resonate quite as hauntingly as C. S. Lewis's, I've always been consoled by Agatha Christie's description, in her autobiography, of a visit to the site of her childhood home that had been demolished:
"...I could not even determine in my mind where the house had stood. And then I saw the only clue -- the defiant remains of what had once been a monkey puzzle, struggling to exist in a cluttered back yard. There was no scrap of garden anywhere. All was asphalt. No blade of grass showed green.
I said, 'Brave monkey puzzle' to it, and turned away.
But I minded less after I had seen what had happened. Ashfield had existed once but its day was over. And because whatever has existed still _does_ exist in eternity, Ashfield is still Ashfield. To think of it causes me no more pain."
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