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Author: Jim Towey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.240kg
ISBN: 9781982195632
ISBN 10: 1982195630
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 12 October 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa is a powerful white pill, masterfully weaving together vignettes from Towey's own life with the arc of the Albanian nun pursuing the will of God. -Washington Free Beacon Towey recounts the hours Mother Teresa spent daily in deep prayer as well as the cheerfulness and compassion with which she served people in crushing poverty...his retelling of his beloved friend's persistent dark night of the soul makes the reader want to comfort her...Readers familiar with Mother Teresa's biography will find fresh meaning in Towey's account of her impact on his spiritual journey. Those unfamiliar with her life story will appreciate his accessible and gripping introduction. -America Jesuit Review Jim Towey's To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa is the loveliest book I've read in recent months, rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity and including one of the Five Funniest Catholic Stories Ever. --George Weigel Towey portrays Mother Teresa in trademark sandals and sari, and also as a human who experienced loneliness, wrestled with doubts, and loved sweets...This personal portrait is by turns autobiographical, biographical, and devotional. Especially moving are the stories of Mother Teresa's vivid calling through a vision, her dark night of the soul, and her final decline. --Booklist Though Towey's personal, transformative relationship with Mother Teresa forms the central theme, he also offers a fascinating inside look into Mother Teresa's daily life...Inspiring and joyful. --Kirkus Reviews
Author Information
Jim Towey was a trusted advisor and personal friend of Mother Teresa of Calcutta for twelve years, and did the first reading at her Mass of Canonization in Saint Peter’s Square. He headed the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under George W. Bush, and was president of two Catholic colleges, a US Senate staffer, and head of Florida’s 40,000-employee health and human services agency. In 1996, with Mother Teresa’s encouragement, he founded the nonprofit advocacy organization Aging with Dignity and created the Five Wishes advance directive, which has sold 40 million copies and is used in all fifty states. Towey met his wife, Mary, in Mother Teresa’s Washington, DC, AIDS home. He continues to provide pro bono legal services for the Missionaries of Charity.
