On Being Catholic Children's SaintsIn his first full length book since converting to Roman Catholicism over ten years ago, Thomas Howard presents his wonderful, refreshing insights on the "glad tidings" of the deeper meaning of Catholic piety, dogma, spirituality, vision and practice, rendered in his unique style of prose for which he is well known. The book's chapters take the form of lay meditations on Catholic teaching and practice, opening up in practical and simple terms the
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nourish within us the love of God and increase sentiments of Christian fortitude and the spirit of true contrition
Those who received letters from family and friends alike usually kept the hand-written texts sent to them as precious gifts
Writing in the preface to this volume
One such chapter tells us "The Mass was the centre of the spirituality of Padre Pio
unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements
This volume also includes 4 pages of facsimiles of Th├®r├¿se's letters
) whose work and writings would be revered as a standard of authority by both Christian and Muslim worlds for the next 1300 years
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which he reluctantly accepted but in which he always became the beloved of those he served
Mary Fabyan Windeatt is the well-known author of over 20 books on lives of the saints for young people
among others
