Overview
A collection of letters between Therese of Lisieux and a humble young seminarian, Maurice Belliere. Bishop Ahern's accmpanying text uncovers the full beauty of the little Flower's spirituality
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Author: Patrick Ahern
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780385492614
ISBN 10: 0385492618
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 September 1998
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
"""In his balanced, insightful narrative, Bishop Ahern avoids the pitfalls of hagiography: He gives us no plaster saint, but a full-bodied portrait, full of shadows and light. The reader is left with a sense of the sheer divine mystery of the love and suffering?in every sense the ""passion""?of these two young people touched by God. It is a most timely book for a secular age; it is also a gift."" --Charles Scribner III ""A beautiful and inspiring story; truly a book about a saint for sinners."" --Mary Higgins Clark ""A marvelous book. Perhaps I knew Therese as a saint before I read her letters to Maurice and his to her; I did not know her as a woman. Now she fascinates me more than ever."" --John Cardinal O'Connor ""From the Trade Paperback edition."""
Within 15 years of her death, the pope would speak of Therese of Lisieux as 'the greatest saint of modern times'. Nearly 100 years later, she has influenced personalities as diverse as beatnik Jack Kerouac, Mother Teresa, novelist Graham Greene and American social activist Dorothy Day. Yet her fame is based on a single autobiographical volume, Story of a Soul, which she wrote - not for publication - at the command of her superior in the Carmelite convent she had entered at 15. She died nine years later. This volume contains a unique and unusual correspondence between herself and her 'dear brother', a soldier named Maurice who wrote to the convent asking for a nun to pray for him. (Kirkus UK)
In his balanced, insightful narrative, Bishop Ahern avoids the pitfalls of hagiography: He gives us no plaster saint, but a full-bodied portrait, full of shadows and light. The reader is left with a sense of the sheer divine mystery of the love and suffering?in every sense the passion ?of these two young people touched by God. It is a most timely book for a secular age; it is also a gift. <br>--Charles Scribner III <br> A beautiful and inspiring story; truly a book about a saint for sinners. <br>--Mary Higgins Clark <br> A marvelous book. Perhaps I knew Therese as a saint before I read her letters to Maurice and his to her; I did not know her as a woman. Now she fascinates me more than ever. <br>--John Cardinal O'Connor <p> From the Trade Paperback edition.
