Fill your soul with grace, your
heart with promise, your spirit with hope
This collection of 101 stories will take your
heart and soul on a joyous spiritual retreat from the challenges and struggles of everyday
life. You'll read about:
- A soldier who received last rites from a
priest in the middle of the Vietnam battlefield - yet the records showed that the priest
(known as "the grunt priest") had actually died two weeks before this
soldiers fateful day.
- Former world record-holding runner
Alberto Salazars return to the Catholic faith - and how praying the rosary during
the final stretch of a marathon gave him the supernatural power he needed to win.
- How a trucker became the instrument God
used to help capture the Beltway snipers in the spring of 2003.
- How an "angel" led a hungry,
disoriented American soldier away from German captors during a daring escape in World War
II.
- How the love of a Catholic father and his
deceased daughter crossed the barriers of time and eternity during the seventh game of the
1997 World Series.
- How an office joke in which workers tried
to "spot a monk" on the Internet led someone to the Catholic faith.
- How angels interceded in the recent Iraq
war to protect an army unit caught in an explosive crossfire between Iraqi and U.S.
forces.
- How a mother and son were reunited after
nearly 50 years of separation through the simple, but faithful actions of an RCIA teacher.
- How a modern "Joseph the
Carpenter" came to the rescue of a woman in need.
- How a renegade teenager randomly picked
up a book about Mary and experienced an instant, radical conversion to Christ.
- How the son of one of Americas most
powerful executives experienced a miraculous "scar" on his heart and gave his
life to the Church as a priest.
(You'll also experience
the lighter side of God's good grace with more than two dozen stories, jokes and
illustrations that will provoke smiles as well as thought.)
Amazing Grace for
the Catholic Heart will help you celebrate your Catholic Faith like no other book
you've read. It's another bowl of "chicken soup for the soul." |