“…A letter to his son Christopher written in the 1940s offers a blow-by-blow account of a spiritual awakening at St. Gregory’s, his Oxford parish church, in which he “perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual rays from the Light which both held and lit it.” The ray, he decided, was “the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God’s very attention itself, personalized.”

excerpt from How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Strong Catholic Faith Influenced His Writing
D.J. Taylor on the Role of Religion In the Author’s Life and Work by D.J. Taylor