The Road and the Silence

<p>In September 2018 Father Réal Ouellette locked the door of his rectory in Fort-Coulonge Quebec and drove west. He thought he was exhausted. He thought a month on the road would restore him.</p><p>From the cliffs of Northern Ontario to the Pacific's edge from Walmart parking lots to remote parishes this is the story of one priest's attempt to cross a country - and himself - while carrying a weight he could not yet name.</p><p>Six months later he was diagnosed with clinical depression. The doctors suspected he had been living with it unrecognized for years.</p><p><em>The Road and the Silence</em> is a raw contemplative memoir of priestly burnout undiagnosed depression and the difficult truth that some journeys don't heal us - they simply help us see what has been there all along.</p>