a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty.

mystery. i always thought it to mean something i didn't understand, something i wasn't truly deeply sure existed because i couldn't explain it. the word didn't even sit well with me cos of the Mysteries we have as Catholics. the Mystery of the Eucharist - even though we have a name for it : transubstantiation; the transforming of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, it's just a big word.

but while doing some reading for my presentation of a 19th century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins who was a Jesuit priest, i came across this:

"a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty".