Christ Himself had used that comparison for the disciple to whom He gave the keys of His Church. The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need even mere feeling yearned for it it was the highest comparison of loyalty in love and friendship. Father Latour, 236įather Latour - speaking in free indirect discourse - observes the differences between the European way of relating to nature, whereby they distinguish themselves from nature and seek to master it, to an Indian way, which emphasizes harmonization instead. The Hopi villages that were set upon rock mesas were made to look like the rock on which they sat, were imperceptible at a distance. It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it. His feeling of dying, however, does not come so much from weakness or illness, but rather from the fullness of the life he has lived in service of his diocese. I shall die of having lived." Father Latour, 270įather Latour tells his young protege, Bernard Ducrot, that he wants to die in Santa Fe.
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