Sacrament: Personal Encounters With Memories, Wounds, Dreams, and Unruly Hearts - Softcover

Hannon, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594715440 ISBN 13: 9781594715440

Publisher: Ave Maria Pr, 2014

Synopsis

This collection of perceptive personal essays brings the meaning of the sacraments to life with unflinching realism and compassion. Drawing on his experiences as a priest as well as memories of childhood and adolescence, Patrick Hannon weaves his stories with quirky characters and startling insights into the central actions of Catholic faith.In the tradition of such writers as Anne Lamott, Richard Rodriguez, and Barry Lopez, Patrick Hannon takes his readers on a captivating spiritual journey with unexpected turns and delightful characters. In Sacrament, Hannon guides readers through his own everyday sacramental encounters as living, breathing moments with God. Each essay is a carefully crafted metaphor of one of the sacraments, and Hannon shows moments of deeply human interaction to indeed be encounters with divine grace. The connections between these narratives and the sacraments only come into focus at the very end of each account in a moment of well-earned epiphany. In presenting th

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About the Author

Patrick Hannon is a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He was raised near Oakland, California. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Portland in Oregon, received his master of divinity at the University of Notre Dame, and holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from Portland State University. Hannon was ordained a priest in 1989 and has, over twenty-five years of priesthood, been a high school English teacher, a high school principal, a parish priest, a rector of a university residence hall, and a campus minister. His essays have appeared in US Catholic, Portland Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, The Utne Reader, Best Catholic Writing and Gold Man Review. He is the author of four collections of essays: Running into the Arms of God, Geography of God's Mercy, The Long Yearning's End, and Hearts and Voices. He currently ministers and teaches writing at the University of Portland, and leads parish missions and retreats.

Review

"Patrick Hannon has given us a thoroughly masculine, genuinely original, and refreshingly honest account of what it's like to be a twenty-first-century man of God. Yet this book will appeal to anyone, male or female, who is willing to do some serious wrestling with the soul." --Paula Huston, Author of A Season of Mystery
"It's rare to read vibrant, witty, piercing essays that get waaay under the small boat of religion and deep into the sea of our wild spiritual search. It's a delight when you find essays like that from Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, and it's a delight to find them here, from one of the best Catholic essayists in America." --Brian Doyle, Author of A Book of Uncommon Prayer
"A lively guide to living out faith in the everyday from an engaging storyteller who knows how to recognize those moments of grace that make our lives sacramental." -- --Judith Valente, Author of Atchison Blue

About this edition

• Publisher: Ave Maria Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1594715440
• ISBN 13: 9781594715440
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128