Download or read book Me Father Was a Hero and Me Mother Is a Saint written by Eamonn Sheridan and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of an Irish family from the early 20th century up to WWII. Their father fought the Germans and their mother had 23 children.
Download or read book Me Father Was a Hero and Me Mother Is a Saint written by Eamonn Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of an Irish family from the early 20th century up to WWII. Their father fought the Germans and their mother had 23 children.
Download or read book Me Father Was a Hero and Me Mother Is a Saint written by Eamonn Sheridan and published by Eloquent Books. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Me Father Was a Hero and Me Mother Is a Saint is the true story of a large working-class family from North Dublin. "It begins with the period of my father's service with 'E' company 1st Battalion Dublin Brigade during the War of Independence against the British, and his incarceration in Mountjoy Prison during the period of the war." The book pulls no punches as it details the execution of Kevin Barry and the subsequent hunger strike in protest. The author relates his father's service with the IRA during the Civil War in 1922-23 and his being jailed again. During World War II, his father joined the British Army and served with the 8th Army in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. "My mother had 23 pregnancies. Eleven of us survived. She was evicted from our house due to non-payment of rent during a period when my father was posted missing in action and presumed killed." The story continues in the post-war years, as Eamonn Sheridan's family lived in poverty in Dublin City centre, but was later forced through economic circumstances to emigrate to England during the 1950s. "My father was a good living, no nonsense tough patriot who was modest and very reluctant to talk about his experiences in war. My mother was gentle, good humoured and caring, and never complained no matter how hard life got." About the Author: Eamonn Sheridan grew up in Dublin and now calls Enniscorthy County Wexford in Ireland his home. He is retired and working on his next book. Publisher's website: http: //SBPRA.com/EamonnSheridan
Download or read book The Patron Saint of Ugly written by Marie Manilla and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic lore, American tales, and Sicilian superstition blend in this “clever, funny, heartbreaking, and heartwarming” novel (Publishers Weekly). Born with unruly red hair, a sharp tongue, and wine-colored marks all over her body—marks that oddly mimick a map of the world and make her subject to endless ridicule—Garnet Ferrari would hardly consider herself blessed. So when an emissary from the Vatican shows up at her door, convinced that her seeming ability to cure the skin ailments of others qualifies her for sainthood, she’s not quite convinced—or pleased. Garnet sets off on a quest to better understand who she is and where she and her unusual gifts came from. Tracing a twisted path that leads from Sicily to West Virginia, poverty to riches, romance to loss, reality to mythology, Garnet uncovers a truth far more powerful than any dermatological miracle: that the things of which we are most ashamed often become our greatest strengths. “A cleareyed, touching fable of a girl learning the hard truths about herself and others.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The Saint Makers written by Joe Drape and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from a New York Times journalist and bestselling author takes us inside the modern-day making of a saint. The Saint Makers chronicles the unlikely alliance between Father Hotze and Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, a country priest and a cosmopolitan Italian canon lawyer, as the two piece together the life of a long dead Korean War hero and military chaplain and fashion it into a case for eternal divinity. Joe Drape offers a front row seat to the Catholic Church's saint-making machinery—which, in many ways, has changed little in two thousand years-and examines how, or if, faith and science can co-exist. This rich and unique narrative leads from the plains of Kansas to the opulent halls of the Vatican, through brutal Korean War prison camps, and into the stories of two individuals, Avery Gerleman and Chase Kear, whose lives were threatened by illness and injury and whose family and friends prayed to Father Kapaun, sparking miraculous recoveries in the heart of America. Gerleman is now a nurse, and Kear works as a mechanic in the aerospace industry. Both remain devoted to Father Kapaun, whose opportunity for sainthood relies in their belief and medical charts. At a time when the church has faced severe scandal and damage, and the world is at the mercy of a pandemic, this is an uplifting story about a priest who continues to an example of goodness and faith. Ultimately, The Saint Makers is the story of a journey of faith—for two priests separated by seventy years, for the two young athletes who were miraculously brought back to life with (or without) the intercession of the divine, as well as for readers—and the author—trying to understand and accept what makes a person truly worthy of the Congregation of Saints in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Download or read book Jesus My Father the CIA and Me written by Ian Morgan Cron and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching memoir of life with an alcoholic father who secretly works with the CIA, a dark pilgrimage through the valley of depression and addiction, and finding a faith to redeem and a strength to forgive. "This is a record of my life as I remember it—but more importantly, as I felt it." At the age of sixteen, Ian Morgan Cron was told by his mother that his father, a motion picture executive, worked with the CIA in Europe. This astonishing revelation, coupled with his father's dark struggle with alcoholism, upended the world of a teenager struggling to become a man. Born into a family of privilege and power, Ian's life is populated with colorful people and stories as his father takes the family on a wild roller-coaster ride through wealth and poverty and back again. Decades later, as he faced his own personal demons, Ian realized that the only way to find peace was to voyage back through a painful childhood marked by extremes—privilege and poverty, violence and tenderness, truth and deceit—that he’d spent years trying to escape. A fast-paced, unique memoir about the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of The Road Back to You Details his father’s struggle with alcohol and Cron’s own journey from addiction to twenty-three years of sobriety Encouragement to see God’s redemptive power through life’s struggles In this surprisingly funny and forgiving memoir, Ian reminds us that no matter how different the pieces may be, in the end we are all cut from the same cloth, stitched by faith into an exquisite quilt of grace.
Download or read book The Wandering Jew New Revised Translation from the Original French by H L Williams written by Marie Joseph Eugène SUE and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Plays written by Lynne Alvarez and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Wizards and Angels written by Charles Louis Braai and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, I was Beethovens prized pupil, if you can believe it. Unfortunately I had to quit him for reasons not concerning music. It was really quite silly. I was supposed to be protecting my good name. You see, it was rumored that the maestro, Beethoven, was a womanizer and while conducting orchestras he also conducted many affairs with his young female students. In those times, although mostly behind their backs, some men and even some women were referred to as libertines. Of course any man as emotional as Beethoven had to be romantically exotic, but I didnt consider him a libertine; it was just that young women threw themselves at him and he used the opportunities. The saddest part was this remarkable man was almost deaf; in later years, he became almost completely and totally deaf. Yet this man was such a genius, just by reading the written notes, he could hear the music inside his head. Often, he laid his hands on the piano as I played. At times, when I playedparticularly when we were alone, after hed closed the piano, thus containing the soundhed then lay his head down on the piano; by doing so, with his temple held tightly on the lid, it enabled him to hear it fully the way it was meant to be heard. This was done only prudently and only witnessed by certain people as he was embarrassed and, at first, not wanting to admit being deaf. No matter how much relief Id get by forgetting the music, I never would forget it on purpose. That music is a part of me, more so than my arms and limbs even; the music is more part of me than my perceived beauty or my immortality.
Download or read book The Fruits of Medjugorje written by Elizabeth Ficocelli and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in the village of Medjugorje (on June 25th), this volume provides readers with a collection of compelling firsthand accounts of visits to the site and how Medjugorje genuinely and permanently transformed people's lives.
Download or read book The Holy Name Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of St Vincent de Paul written by Emile Bougaud and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effective Prayers written by Rev. Robert Antwi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many payers go without answered, so I decided to seek the face of God to know how Christians will be able to get their prayers answered. Since I became a Christian in August 1984, I have seen most of my prayers answered in a very special way, so I would like to share with you some of the secrets I learned in getting my prayers answered. Our God is a prayer-answering God. First, we must have faith in God and trust that He is prepared to answer when we call on Him. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Heb 11:6). Prayer is diligently seeking the face of God, so if we are going to pray, then we should believe that God is going to listen and answer our prayer.
Download or read book The Activated Disciple written by Jeff Cavins and published by Ascension Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to take your faith to the next level? If you yearn for a life that moves beyond believing and practicing your faith, if you want to radically live your faith, if you want a more profound relationship with Jesus Christ, then it is time for you to become an activated disciple. The Foundation of discipleship is imitation. True discipleship requires such a close relationship with God that every area of your life is transformed. It is about opening yourself to God and inviting him to dwell within you, becoming holy as he is holy, loving as he is loving, disciples of Christ become the instruments God employs to transform the world. - Move beyond simply believing and practicing your faith and begin radically living it! - Overcome obstacles that keep you from being the disciple you are made to be.
- Be a positive influence and an instrument of transformation in the Church.
Download or read book The Wine of God s Anger written by Kenneth Cook and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book By Order of the President written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider—Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo—for answers. A pilot, West Point graduate, and veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the facts—and the truth behind them. In Africa, he is helped and hindered by unexpected allies and ruthless enemies, and begins to untangle a plot of horrific dimensions—a plot that, unless Castillo acts quickly, will end very, very badly.
