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A collection of stories of some of the great men of the Christian faith. Includes Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Orestes A. Brownson and Isaac Hecker.
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Excellent overviews of the lives of Paul the Apostle, St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo, Cardinal John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Orestes Brownson, and Isaac Hecker. Highlights their conversions, and how each of their lives were dramatically changed by conversion, then highlights their many and enduring contributions to the faith, most notably their writings. For those wanting a more in-depth look at any of the men covered in the book there are suggestions for further reading and study included at the back of the book.
This was one of our family's devotional read-alouds this spring. Our kids range from age 14 down to age 2, and the subject matter, as well as the terminology was a bit of a stretch for them, but this isn't the first "stretch" read-aloud they've experienced, nor will it be the last. It prompted several good discussions. ( )
Here are pathos, travail, terror, heartthrob, daring and high adventure. This book is bound to give encouragement and enlightenment to those who are groping in the darkness.
Father O'Brien has served the reader well with a remarkable insight into the lives of these important men who though at one time were famished souls could through reason and liberty, the two things so sacred and not forbidden to Catholics, become holy and great men - Giants of the Faith.
Father O'Brien makes them live all the more vividly for the popular reader. No vignettes these, but deeply moving expressions of real men, their struggles, their triumphs, and most especially their deep influence for the good of the Faith.
Father O'Brien, long known for his popular convert stories, focuses on only six converts in this book, six of the greatest of all times, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Cardinal Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Orestes Brownson and Isaac Necker, the founder of the Paulists. In semi-popular style, basing his material on the best sources, the author sets forth the life, works and influence on history of each of his subjects, with evident regard for historical scholarship, just judgment and intelligent appeal for the reader's admiration and emulation of the virtues of the men he has to discuss.
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To Most Reverend Leo A. Pursley, D.D. Bishop of Fort Wayne Zealous Shepherd of Souls With Sentiments of Warm Esteem The Author Dedicates This Book
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When one views from a great distance the vast sweep of the snow-covered Alpine mountain ridge, he sees the lordly Matterhorn and the Jungfrau towering up, high above the others, into the Swiss skies.
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These quotations from Father Hecker bring out the point stressed in so much of his writing: fidelity to the guidance of the Holy Spirit who speaks to the conscience in prayer, meditation, spiritual reading and in the reception of teh sacraments. But that mystical communion with the Holy Spirit must be supplemented by energetic zealous service to Christ and to the Church - His Mystical Body.
In [An Exposition] Father Hecker cited a curious enigma which irritated no less than it amazed him: a small minority of anti-Christans was permitted entire control of Italy and France, manifesting in the government of those overwhelmingly Catholic conutries a pagan ferocity against everything sacred. Instead of rising up in manly indignation and throwing such persecutors out of office, the Catholic majority manifested merely a "timid listlessness" which they covered with extravagant displays of devotional religion. This made the intrepid apostle's blood boil: he pleaded for more manliness, militancy and intestinal fortitude in defending the rights of God, the Church, and religion.
In stressing the doctrine of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the individual soul, [Hecker] was pointing out by implication that the actual fruitfulness of exernal religion may be measured by the degree of interior union attained.
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Secure in his niche among the giants of the faith is the impressive and challenging figure of the truth seeker and the finder, the seer and the sower, the gifted genius and zealous apostle, Isaac Thomas Hecker.
A collection of stories of some of the great men of the Christian faith. Includes Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Orestes A. Brownson and Isaac Hecker.
This was one of our family's devotional read-alouds this spring. Our kids range from age 14 down to age 2, and the subject matter, as well as the terminology was a bit of a stretch for them, but this isn't the first "stretch" read-aloud they've experienced, nor will it be the last. It prompted several good discussions. ( )