Joseph Warrilow

1909 – 1998

Joseph Warrilow (1909-1998), also known simply as Father Joe was a catholic who served as Guest Master at on the in the United kingdom where he is buried. Several guests have spoke about the guidance he gave, including former , Bishop of Portsmouth , and who wrote a best-selling book about Warrilow.

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"Chastity doesn’t involve surgery, does it? We’re still sexual beings. Sex is a won- derful gift, a physical way to express the most powerful force in all existence — love. Sex is a brilliant idea of God’s, I think. Almost like a sacrament. ... D-d-don’t tell the Abbot!"

"Two people have perhaps done more than any others to direct my thoughts and prayers for the last nine or ten years: Dom Joseph Warrilow of Quarr Abbey and Professor Donald MacKinnon, Norris-Hulse Professor Emeritus in the Univer- sity of Cambridge. What I owe to these men is not easily expressible, and I must be content with this barest of ack- nowledgements to voice my love, respect and gratitude."