![]() ![]() But to reach redemption, she must own her failures, and she will need supernatural grace to do so.Īn unattractive, motherless daughter with a cruel father, the young Princess Orual loves her beautiful younger sister Psyche. Through her confession, she journeys from self-deceit to true contrition, does penance, and is absolved. In a sense, the entire novel is the confession of the protagonist Orual, older sister to Psyche. As I have re-read this book year after year, I’m struck by the theme of redemptive confession mirroring the sacrament of Reconciliation. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, a retelling of the Greek legend of Cupid and Psyche, will always be my favorite of his fiction writings. Although I was raised on The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. ![]()
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