Saints Passionate and Peculiar

Download or read book Saints Passionate and Peculiar written by Brian Doyle and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a collection of seventy-seven brief, headlong, exuberant, passionate essays for teens, Brian Doyle asks us to do as saints past and present do -- to bend our own lives into acts of love, to love everyone at different speeds, including and especially our enemies. Love is the only thing that can save us in the end. Doyle especially wants us to live with the knowledge that saints are not all dead, are not all wild mystics, are not unreachably holy beings set apart from us. Saints are among us -- they are us! Included are-- The Eight Martyrs of North America-- Ephraem of Iraq-- Genesius the Actor-- John the Apostle-- Maximilian Kolbe of Poland-- Paul of Tarsus-- Peter Claver of Colombia-- Thais of Egypt