God rescues us from ourselves if we want Him to.

Today at vespers, just me, the cantor, and the priest. Couldn't get into the closet, so we only had the service books. Not even those. We [by that I mean, the cantor] do what we can. I'll miss the daily office [which we don't do every day] over the summer. The proclamation of the only possible joy in the world.

Today's Flannery O'Connor quote [besides the title]:

I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.