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THE ROAD TO ASSISIThe Essential Biography of St. Francis, 120th Anniversary Edition

Paul SabatierEdited with Introduction and Annotations by Jon M. Sweeney

Originally published in French in 1894, Sabatier’s was the first modern biography of Francis of Assisi. It was a worldwide bestseller, and in 2003 when this new edition was first published, it again sold more than 60,000 copies and was a selection of History Book Club. This new 120th anniversary edition includes a dozen additional annotations and a new preface by the editor, putting Sabatier’s influential work into its historical context, showing why it is still the most essential life of the saint.

Paul Sabatier (1858–1928) was educated in Paris and served as a pastor in Strasbourg. In mid-life, he dedicated himself to research and writing about Francis. His pioneering work has influenced the work of generations of scholars and biographers since his time.

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O TASTE AND SEEA Biblical Reflection on Experiencing God

Bonnie Thurston

If you have always been troubled by the image of God as a punitive judge, this book will show you why this view is so mistaken. Psalm 34:8’s “O taste and see how good the Lord is” contains in miniature the whole process of coming to and growing in faith. It gives us insight into God and into how we experience God. We come to know this good and gracious God by means of the body: seeing (a metaphor for understanding) and tasting (shorthand for what the body knows). In fact, it is precisely engrafted hunger that turns us God-ward—only to find God waiting on the road for our return and ready to host a feast for us.

“If you think you might be hungry for God, but haven’t experienced God directly, or if you are a believer who still feels malnourished, I hope this little book might be for you a kind of manna. Taste. See.” —from the Introduction

Bonnie Thurston is a former seminary professor, a poet, and solitary living in the West Virginia mountains. She leads retreats throughout the world.

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FRANCIS & CLAREA True Story

Jon M. Sweeney

This joint biography illuminates the lives of Francis and Clare and their way of life. It shows how they were bound together by devotion to God as well as the violent objections of their families to religious life. It explores a variety of issues they faced, including the treatment of lepers in medieval society, corruption in the church, and attitudes toward the created world. You will learn how Clare’s spirituality influenced that of other prominent women, how Francis lost control of his own movement, and why Francis’s body was secretly buried after his death.

This title was previously published as Light in the Dark Ages.

Jon M. Sweeney is the author and editor of many books including The Road to Assisi, The St. Francis Prayer Book, Francis of Assisi in His Own Words, and The Pope Who Quit, a medieval history that was recently optioned by HBO. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI

G. K. Chesterton

Here is G. K. Chesterton’s classic work on the life of Saint Francis, in our beautiful edition, for the first time in trade paperback!

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An easy way to talk with God Inspired by Pope Francis

Praying with My Fingers

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PRAYING WITH MY FINGERSAn Easy Way to Talk with God

Inspired by Pope Francis

With gentle rhyme, children ages 1-5 will delight in learning how to pray by simply looking at their fingers.

I count with my fingers,And I learn how to pray.I look at each finger,And know what to say.

My thumb is the closest, Reminding me,To pray for those closest, My whole family tree!

This creative form of prayer has been around for a long time, and is often credited, especially today, to Pope Francis when he was the Archbishop of Argentina. Regardless of its origins, it’s a powerful way to teach our children to pray that the Holy Father has often utilized in his ministry.

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PRAYING WITH YOUR FIVE FINGERS A simple way for children to pray, as taught by Pope Francis.

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CÓMO REZAR CON LOS CINCO DEDOS Cómo rezar con los cincos dedos: Una manera sencilla de enseñar a los niños a hablar con Dios Por: El Papa Francisco.

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FREEDOM AND FORGIVENESSA Fresh Look at the Sacrament of Reconciliation

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CONFESSIONFinding Freedom and Forgiveness

Fr. Paul FarrenForeword by Jean Vanier

The sacrament of Confession is probably the most talked about sacrament in the Catholic Church, as well as a spiritual practice being revived in many Protestant churches. This book explores the sacrament, focusing on the two who confess—God and the penitent. God is the primary confessor when he confesses his forgiveness for and trust in the one who is celebrating the sacrament. The gift of freedom, the existence of hell, and the role of conscience are discussed at length.

Jean Vanier in his foreword says: “Somewhere, along the line, in the history of the Church, people have become more centered upon obedience to laws than upon this relationship with love with a person, with Jesus. This book flows from an understanding of Confession as a meeting of love and as a renewal of friendship.”

How that friendship is renewed is explored using the Rite of Penance and St. Peter in the Gospel. This helps us understand what happens in the sacrament and how we can celebrate it. Ultimately, Fr. Paul describes reconciliation as God’s gift to us to express both God’s humble forgiveness and his confidence in us and also the place where we take responsibility for our lives.

Fr. Paul Farren, a native of Ireland, was ordained a priest in 1997. He studied at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is currently Administrator of St. Eugene’s Cathedral and Long Tower Church, Templemore Parish, as well as Diocesan Advisor in Post Primary Education, and Director of their Catechetical Centre.

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FREEDOM AND FORGIVENESSA Fresh Look at the Sacrament of Reconciliation

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DOORS TO THE SACRED Everyday Events as Hints of the Holy

Bridget Haase, oSU

Through Sr. Bridget Haase's unique gift for storytelling, combined with profound spiritual insight, Doors to the Sacred will invite readers to open the door to the room of daily experience, stand under its ceiling of providence, and walk the floors of faith and explore its nooks and crannies of divine surprises and disguises. By so doing, they will discover that each event of life is holy, saturated with God, and filled with hope.

Sr. Bridget Haase, osu, is a member of the Ursuline Sisters and holds an MA in religious studies. She is also the author of Generous Faith and has ministered in Appalachia, Mexico, and Africa. She serves as coordinator of the spirituality program at The Boston Home, a long-term care facility for people with multiple sclerosis and other degenerative neurological diseases. She is the co-host of “Spirit and Life,” a weekly radio show on Relevant Radio. Visit her website at www.wisdomwonder.com.

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Aborn storyteller, Sr. Bridget Haase invites you to look at the ordinary experiences in your life in order to see God at work. These stories will help you find hints of the holy in your own everyday moments.

“In C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, four children open the door into a wardrobe and their lives are never the same. Here, Sr. Bridget invites us to

open a magic door into moments of grace. This book could change your life.”

—bishop robert Morneau,Pastor of Resurrection Parish, Auxiliary Bishop of Green Bay

“With her life’s wisdom and experience, Sr. Bridget reminds us of the beauty of approaching God and the world with childlike delight, wonder, and awe.”

—Wendy Wiese, host of “On Call,” Relevant Radio

“If you were given just one chance to get a little closer to God, would you take it? How about fifty-two chances? Follow this guide and

experience amazing results.”

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“Sr. Bridget is a gifted storyteller who always brings a smile to my face, a tear to my eye, warmth to my heart, and wings to my soul.”

—erich Miller, Executive Director, My Brother’s Keeper

“Sr. Bridget explodes ordinary moments in the lives of ordinary people into shimmering points of grace to light our spiritual way. I adore this book.”

—pastor cynthia bagley, The First Congregational Church of Dunbarton (NH)

Sr. Bridget HaaSe, oSu, is a member of the Ursuline Sisters, and holds an MA in religious studies. She has ministered in Appalachia, Mexico, and Africa, and is also the author of Generous Faith. She serves on the spirituality team at The Boston Home, a long-term care facility for people with multiple sclerosis and other degenerative neurological diseases, and is the co-host of “Spirit and Life,” a weekly radio show on Relevant Radio. Visit her website at www.wisdomwonder.com

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Ideal for Catholics

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THE SEA SLEEPSNew & Selected Poems

GREG MILLER

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IDIOT PSALMSNew Poems

Scott Cairns

A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging collection yet.

“Idiot Psalm 1”

O God Belovéd if obliquely so,dimly apprehended in the midstof this, the fraught obscuring fog of my insufficiently capacious ken, Ostensible Lover of our kind—whileapparently aloof—allowthat I might glimpse once moreYour shadow in the land, availfor me, a second time, the senseof dire Presence in the pulsinghollow near the heart.

Once more, O Lord, from Your Enormity inclineyour Face to shine upon Your servant, shyof immolation, if You will.

ENDLESS LIFEPoems of the Mystics

Scott Cairns

First published in hardcover as Love’s Immensity, this powerful book of selections from the mystics of East and West, rendered into poetry, is now available in paperback for the first time.

Scott Cairns is the author of several collections of poetry including The Theology of Doubt, Compass of Affection, and the new Idiot Psalms. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Image, and many other periodicals. He is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Missouri.

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THE SEA SLEEPSNew and Selected Poems

Greg Miller

“This poet takes other people’s lives as seriously as he takes his own, and so, under his patient, unwavering, sympathetic gaze, they come to life in the poems, in all their perplexity and distress, courage and dignity, fully realized in a fully realized landscape.” —David Ferry, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Bewilderment

“In Greg Miller’s poems, the natural world sometimes seems to almost meld with human love, fear, and longing.” —Clyde Edgerton

This collection draws heavily from the core devotional strain in Miller’s poetry, offering what novelist Fenton Johnson described in his review of Iron Wheel as “the vision and experience of that place where dark merges seamlessly into light; the house and home of grace—unasked for and perhaps undeserved, but transformative all the same.” Framed by meditations on the beginnings and possible post-human ends of culture, the new poems reflect on the callings and limits of art in responding to desire, history, mortality, and injustice. Set in the American South, Wales, France, the Czech Republic, and Sudan, the poems address and invoke the divine.

Greg Miller is the author of three volumes of poems, Watch (2009), Rib Cage (2001) and Iron Wheel (1998) all published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also a scholar of English literature, having published George Herbert's "Holy Patterns": Reforming Individuals in Community, a study of the seventeenth-century Anglican priest and poet. Miller is Janice C. Trimble Professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He received his PhD in English from the University of California at Berkeley.

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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS ON PRAYER BY

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THREE WAYS OF LOVING GODSt. Augustine, St. Teresa of Avila, and St. Francis de Sales

PRAYING WITH YOUR WHOLE HEARTSt. Augustine, St. Catherine of Siena, an Anonymous monk of 14th-century England, and Thomas à Kempis

HUMBLE THYSELF BEFORE THE LORDThomas à Kempis, Brother Lawrence, St. Antony of Egypt, and St. Catherine of SienaThese thematic collections of spiritual teachings from the best Christian writers in history are sure to be popular with book study groups, Centering prayer gatherings, adult Christian formation, and individual spiritual reading. 144-160 pp, 5 ½ x 8 ½, Trade paperback$16.00, April 2014

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AN INNER STEP TOWARD GODWritings and Teachings on Prayer by Father Alexander Men

Father Alexander Men Translated by Christa BelyaevaEdited by April French

According to Father Alexander Men (1935–1990), the Russian Orthodox priest and popular spiritual teacher who was publicly martyred in 1990 in the former USSR, prayer is “the flight of the heart toward God.” This work, available for the first time in English, is a collection of his writings, lectures, and sermons on prayer. You will discover both ancient and modern wisdom, and you will see how one Eastern Orthodox priest taught his parishioners to pray.

April French, the project editor, is one of the foremost North American authorities on Father Alexander Men. She worked for several years in Christian ministry to university students living in Irkutsk, Siberia, where Russian friends introduced her to the works of Fr. Alexander. April has an MA from Regent College, where she wrote her thesis on Fr. Alexander. She is now a PhD Candidate at Brandeis University.

Christa Belyaeva, the translator, lived in Moscow for eight years. While there, she converted to Orthodoxy and worshiped at the Church of the Dormition with people who knew Fr. Alexander Men personally. Christa has experience translating at Moscow Bible College and Hosanna Ministries. She now lives with her husband and three children in Temecula, CA.

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LENTEN SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR KIDSI'm Supposed to Do What?!

Peter Celano

Written for 7–11 year olds, this playful guide appeals to kids who want to know more about what adults are telling them is a serious time. Without talking down to them, yet challenging them to learn and do more, the following topics are explored in detail: What Lent Is, What Lent Definitely Is Not, 40 Days of Survival Tactics, and A Few Prayers and Practices—Only for Kids.

From What Lent Definitely Is Not:People easily become confused on this subject. In fact, we’re glad you are reading this book, because we want to set you, at least, straight. You can then please set others straight.

Lent is not about “giving up” silly things. It is not about making sad faces to show how difficult life has suddenly become for you. (Need we start explaining how most of the world would think that giving up candy bars or soda for 40 days sounds just plain silly? According to Bread for the World, 925 million people around the world go hungry each day. So please don’t talk about the terrible hardship you are undergoing by giving up M&M’s and Coca-Cola for a few weeks.)

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PARACLETE BIBLE FOR KIDS

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The Paraclete Bible for Kids is perfect for any child ages 1–6. Here are the most essential stories from the Old and New Testaments, from Creation and the Great Flood through Abraham, Moses, David, and Daniel, to the Nativity of Jesus and the very first Easter. Bright, simple maps and rich illustrations combine with simple language to become a child’s first, treasured introduction to the Word of God.

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So instead of focusing on what you may give up, take time to consider why you may do it. You give stuff up for Lent because you want to become a better Christian. You are testing yourself—and allowing God to test you—to see if, by giving up something that maybe you are too focused on in everyday life, you can concentrate more on him.

Peter Celano is a writer, editor, and also the author of Becoming a Great Godparent.

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SAINT NICHOLAS AND THE MOUSE OF MYRA

Written and Illustrated by Jay Stoeckl, creator of Saint Francis and Brother Duck

This playful book illustrates—in vivid color and storytelling—the life of St. Nicholas of Myra from his beginnings as a young priest in Asia Minor in the late 3rd century until just before his death. Kids will watch as he learns and practices the generosity that led to him becoming the father of Christmas giving (“St. Nick”). As with Saint Francis and Brother Duck, Jay Stoeckl’s first foray into this genre, one fictional character is added to the mix through whom the wisdom and Christian teachings of Nicholas’s life can be revealed through dialogue: a Greek-attired philosopher-mouse by the name of Cicero. He questions many of Nicholas’s actions, often hilariously, until the mouse himself converts to Christianity late in the story. The result is an excellent introduction to the life of one of the least-understood and appreciated real characters in Christian history.

From an early age, Jay Stoeckl was an aspiring cartoonist. After traveling to Assisi, he was inspired by the life of Saint Francis and professed as a Secular Franciscan. His first graphic novel of a saint, Saint Francis and Brother Duck, was published to wide acclaim last year. He has a master’s degree in teaching and has taught elementary and middle school for eleven years. Jay lives in southwestern Colorado with his family.

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E verywhere Hildegard went she saw colors and swirls, pictures, and designs. Music filled her soul and she

was flooded with ideas—so many that she thought her mind might explode. Then one day it all stopped.

This beautiful book will take you along with Hildegard on her journey as she seeks to find her voice and dedicates her life with devotion to God, service to others, and artistic expression.

MEGAN HOYT is a veteran writer with credits in television, Internet, and print. She teaches high school creative writing and composition when she isn’t writing books for children. She earned her BA in English and History from Southern Methodist University and a master’s in Theology from Regent University. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family.

illustrator DAVID HILL graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1983 and started out as a painter. He then worked in the video games industry for ten years as a concept artist. Today, he primarily illustrates books for kids. He lives in Scotland with his family. Visit www.davehillsart.co.uk.

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HILDEGARD’S GIFT

Megan HoytIllustrated by David Hill

When Hildegard was young, everywhere she went she saw colors and swirls, pictures, and designs. Music filled her soul and she was flooded with ideas—so many that she thought her mind would explode. Then one day it all stopped. In this beautiful book children will join Hildegard on her journey toward devotion to God, service to others, and toward a blessed and solitary life filled with artistic expression.

Megan Hoyt is a veteran writer with credits in television, Internet, and print. She teaches high school creative writing and composition when she isn’t writing books for children. She earned her BA in English and History from SMU and a master’s in Theology from Regent University. She lives in Charlotte, NC, with her family.

Illustrator David Hill graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1983 and started out as a painter. He then worked in the video games industry for ten years as a concept artist. Today, he primarily illustrates books for kids. He lives in Scotland with his family. Visit www.davehillsart.co.uk.

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She is strong, hard-working, and unafraid of whatever

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Reflections on the Beliefs and Valuesof the Rule of Saint Benedict

MICHAEL CASEYMonk of Tarrawarra

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Christians everywhere.“[Casey] knows what Benedict is trying to say. And he knows

how to apply it to the modern world.”—Terrence Kardong, osb, author of Benedict’s Rule:

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One of the world’s experts on monastic spirituality, Michael Casey reflects on what it means to live today in the distinctive path of St. Benedict of Nursia. Eloquent and incisive, Casey invites us to embrace the challenge of gospel living, which is opposed to the dominant, secular culture around us. The values of asceticism, silence, leisure, reading, chastity, and poverty are each posed as ancient beliefs in a vibrant, contemporary context.

Strangers to the City is for all who are interested in deepening their faith through the dynamics of the monastic experience.

Michael Casey, ocso, is a Cistercian monk of Tarrawarra Abbey in Australia. A frequent retreat master and lecturer on monastic spirituality all over the world, he is the author of many other books including The Road to Eternal Life and Toward God: The Ancient Wisdom of Western Prayer.

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The ancient

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VOICES FROM THE

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VOICES FROM THE

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Isaac Watts and Paraclete Press

Joy to the WorldThe Forgotten Meaning of Christmas

Dante’s INFERNOFaces From

PETER CELANO

Who They Are, What They Say, And What It All Means

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HOW TO BE A MONASTIC AND NOT LEAVE YOUR DAY JOB

A Guide For Benedictine Oblates and Other Christians Who Follow the Monastic Way

Brother Benet Tvedten

E X P E R I E N C I N G

C o m P l I N E

Prayer as Night Falls

Kenneth V. Peterson

Life Is a GiftPA R A C L E T E P R E S S

A BOOK for THANKFUL HEARTS

God has two dwellings; one in heaven,and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

— IZAAK WALTON —

THE STORY OF A SOULA New Translation

St. Thérèse of Lisieux Translated and Edited by Robert J. Edmonson, CJ

St. Thérèse's autobiography was first pub-lished soon after her death in 1897 at the age of 24. Combining charming descriptions of family and community life with a sense of humor and intense devotion to God, her writ-ing was an instant bestseller. But later editions often excluded passages, and refined her use of the French dialect often spoken by peasants. This remarkable new translation includes every word of the original text, retaining the complete charm of the original. The result is a complete and unabridged work, longer than most other editions available today. Millions of hearts have been touched by St. Thérèse of Lisieux's desire, not to be mighty and great, but to be a humble, little flower that would gladden God's eyes as He glances down at His feet. Now, yours will be, too.

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Jerusha Hull McCormack

“She covers so much ground in such a little book that the reader could devour it quickly in hours or spend weeks reading it slowly, savoring each bit of wisdom. People suffering from loss will especially appreciate the counterpoint she provides to all the well-meaning but insensitive ‘churchy’ things Christians tend to say to people who are grieving (‘it’s God’s will,’ or ‘it’s all for the best’). But more importantly, McCormack includes a chapter of ‘Guidelines for Spirit Guardians,’ offering advice to those who accompany grieving people so they can be fully present and helpful. Anyone who is grieving or anyone who knows a grieving person will find hope and support in this small book.”—Publishers Weekly starred review

40 DAYS LIVING THE JESUS CREEDScot McKnightIncludes a New Study Guide by The Rev. Dr. Kevin Maney

The Rev. Dr. Kevin Maney spent 30 years as a teacher and professor in K–16 education, receiving a PhD in curriculum and instruction before earning a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Trinity School for Ministry and being ordained a priest in the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes, part of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) in 2008. He is rector of St. Augustine’s Anglican Church near Columbus, OH.

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SAINT FRANCISSAINT FRANCIS

BROTHER DUCKBROTHER DUCK

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Three days later… TELL ME, BROTHER, HOW DiD YOUR COMPANiON KNOW ABOUT OUR DEFEAT

iN BATTLE BEFORE iT HAPPENED?

DO YOU BELiEVE iN MiRACLES--THE KiND WE READ ABOUT iN

THE GOSPELS?

THE ONES THAT OCCURED iN JESUS’ TiME, ABSOLUTELY! TODAY? NOT SO MUCH. BUT I WiLL SAY THiS: iF YOUR FRiAR

RETURNS FROM THE SULTAN, THAT WOULD BE A MiRACLE.

ONE MiRACLE…COMiNG UP!!

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Assisi--April 15, 1208

OUR BELOVED TOWN OF ASSiSi. BROTHER DUCK, LET US BLESS THiS HiLL-

TOWN OF OURS.

MAY ASSiSi RECEiVE EVERY BLESSiNG, LORD,

TO YOUR GLORY.

AMEN!

WHERE SHALL TWO HOMELESS DUCKS SPEND A RAiNY NiGHT,

HUH?iT iS RAiNiNG iN ASSiSi! WE ARE COLD, WET, AND HUNGRY, AND GOD LOVES

US!

RAiN DOWN YOUR SPiRiT, LORD! FOR

WE ARE POOR AND NEEDY!

NOT SO POOR -- I LOVE THE

RAiN!

THE FOXES HAVE THEiR DENS -- RiGHT, BROTHER DUCK? BUT WE HAVE NO PLACE TO

LAY OUR HEADS.

THiS LOOKS LiKE A GOOD SPOT.

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TOWN OF OURS.


TO YOUR GLORY.

AMEN!



US!




RAiN!


LAY OUR HEADS.


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TOWN OF OURS.


TO YOUR GLORY.

AMEN!



US!




RAiN!


LAY OUR HEADS.


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Three days later… TELL ME, BROTHER, HOW DiD YOUR COMPANiON KNOW ABOUT OUR DEFEAT

iN BATTLE BEFORE iT HAPPENED?

DO YOU BELiEVE iN MiRACLES--THE KiND WE READ ABOUT iN

THE GOSPELS?

THE ONES THAT OCCURED iN JESUS’ TiME, ABSOLUTELY! TODAY? NOT SO MUCH. BUT I WiLL SAY THiS: iF YOUR FRiAR

RETURNS FROM THE SULTAN, THAT WOULD BE A MiRACLE.

ONE MiRACLE…COMiNG UP!!

P a r a c l e t e P r e s s

Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle

MY CONFIRMATION

BOOK

Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle

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