Each Other's Angels: Practicing Personalism as a Catholic by Toni Flynn,Julie Matey Conway,Jeff Dietrich

By Toni Flynn,Julie Matey Conway,Jeff Dietrich

Each Other's Angels: working towards Personalism within the Catholic employee Tradition introduces readers to writer Toni Flynn's imaginative and prescient of justice and compassion, educated by means of the Scriptures and encouraged through the Catholic employee circulation of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.
half memoir and half tribute to varied humans she encountered at the margins of society, this publication indicates readers how doubtless insignificant and ineffectual efforts to be an angel to others can change into symptoms of God's grace.
Following Jesus, going to locations of cultural darkness and brokenness, Toni unavoidably takes us via troubling and complicated terrain--the wilderness, homeless encampments, jails and prisons, and seedy hotels.
As you'll discover, Toni fearlessly exposes her flaws whereas forging a conduit of compassion that connects her to the wounded human and permits her--and her readers--to desire for a greater international the place everyone seems to be tended to and favored.

"Toni Flynn graces us with tales from her existence as a peace activist, mom, Catholic employee volunteer, and buddy to the bad and imprisoned. Christ is squarely in the course of those delicate, piercing essays from a existence lived totally, deeply, richly."
--Heather King, writer, Public Speaker, NPR Contributor

"Without a touch of piety or self-congratulation, Flynn exhibits us what it truly is wish to reside within the imitation of Christ. a stunning ebook with the facility to alter lives."
--Paula Huston, writer, Benedictine Oblate

"Flynn has eyes that see, ears that listen, and phrases that open our internal senses to the lives of others, in particular humans like Opal in penitentiary, the Beggar Bowl girl within the desolate tract, Sister Louise who shines, Michael on his cleaning soap field, and the army police officer who loosens handcuffs. Grace is far and wide in those pages. Blessed is the author who brings differently neglected souls into our personal hearts."
--James W. Douglass, writer, Catholic employee, Christian Theologian

"This is certainly a e-book that might invite the stony hearted to crack open, and encourage 'bleeding hearts' far and wide to hold on simply because, like several unparalleled books of serious intensity, this one is written in blood."
--Jeff Dietrich, writer, Editor of the Catholic Agitator

Toni Flynn is living at the California critical Coast in shut proximity to Beatitude condominium and the Monastery of the Risen Christ. as well as this present ebook, Toni's first booklet, Finding My means: A trip alongside the Rim of the Catholic employee Movement was once reprinted in 2015 through Wipf and inventory Publishers.

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