“… Part of what drew O’Gieblyn to Catholicism was the beauty of the Mass, the vaulted ceiling of the chapel, the endless choreography of standing and kneeling, the rituals so refined that they “did not ask you to think.” She longed to lose herself in mystery and rapture. It was the same longing she felt with alcohol. But these ostensible acts of submission turned out to be warped attempts at control. She eventually realized there was something acquisitive in both. Alcoholism, she says, “is little more than the belief that the ecstasy and joy that life doles out so sparingly and unpredictably can be had on demand, whenever you want it. It is an attempt to bottle grace...”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/books/review/will-and-attention-meghan-ogieblyn.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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