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"The people honored Joshua all his life, just as they had h onored Moses." ~ Joshua 4:14
Alec Guinness played the British co lonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His autobiography, Blessi ng in Disguise, describes a moving episode that began to thaw hi s anti-Catholicism and prepare the way for his becoming a Catholic.
He was in a film being shot in France. One night, dressed as a priest, he was walking to the film site. A small boy ran up, grabbed his hand, swun g it playfully, and prattled on nonstop. Alec wrote: "He obviously took me for a priest and so to be trusted. Suddenly with a 'Bon soir, mon pere', ... he disappeared... I was left with an odd calm sense of elation. Contin uing my walk, I reflected that a Church which could inspire such confidenc e in a child, making its priests... so easily approachable could not be as scheming and creepy as so often made out." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
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