A Mother's Plea: Lifting the Veil in Sanctuary - Softcover

Bus, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596141840 ISBN 13: 9781596141841

Publisher: Marian Pr, 2007

Synopsis

Beyond the Veil...

In the lonely walk through spiritual dryness when God seems so distant, a woman’s voice is heard in the deep recesses of the soul of a struggling priest. She prods him to discover God and the meaning and purpose of life in the sacred silence of sanctuary. From that space in sanctuary, the veil is lifted to the ongoing drama of a mission that would ensure the reconciliation and peace of her children.

In A Mother’s Plea, the pastor of a diverse parish in the inner city of Chicago recounts his journey to fulfill a call in the face of spiritual trials and elusive triumphs. Father Anthony Bus details how faith and trustful surrender sustain the hope that waits for what is unseen. This book is a must read for those on their own path to an authentic spiritual awakening.

The initial publication became a religious bestseller in 2005 – with sales now crossing over the ocean to Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and to several countries in Africa. This revised edition brings a dramatic finale to the story that forms A Mother’s Plea, promising hope to a world still so new to the third millennium.
“I challenge the reader to hear the sound of Our Lady’s call echoing throughout the pages of A Mother’s Plea. In 1981, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared near my small village in Rwanda, Africa. She warned us a terrible situation was going to happen if her call for prayer and conversion was not heeded. She asked that a chapel be built and that we should attend Mass and pray the Rosary. Obviously, we did not listen. Now I pray the world will never forget the 100 days in 1994 when more than one million Rwandans were slaughtered by their own countrymen. A Mother’s Plea is an urgent reminder that whether we live in a major American city or in a small village in the African countryside, we must do our part to ensure peace for our children; and for the future of our nations.”
(Immaculee Ilibagiza, Author of International BestSeller, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust)
This is the vividly personal story of a priest in a Chicago parish coming to terms with what the priesthood demands of a man in a great modern city. Profoundly conscious of the sin and unbelief that distort human lives and that touch him too, Father Bus is sometimes desperate in face of the hostile disregard for the Church so prevalent today. (Francis Cardinal George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago)

About this title

About the Author

Fr. Anthony Bus, CR, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1984 and is a vowed religious of the Congregation of Resurrection. He became pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in Chicago, Illinois in 1996. It is his hope that this revised edition will fortify readers with the courage and sacrificial strength needed to reconnect a weary, wayward and wondering people with their loving God.

Review

Immaculee Ilibagiza
Author, International BestSeller, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust
July 2007

“I challenge the reader to hear the sound of Our Lady’s call echoing throughout the pages of A Mother’s Plea. In 1981, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared near my small village in Rwanda, Africa. She warned us a terrible situation was going to happen if her call for prayer and conversion was not heeded. She asked that a chapel be built and that we should attend Mass and pray the Rosary. Obviously, we did not listen. Now I pray the world will never forget the 100 days in 1994 when more than one million Rwandans were slaughtered by their own countrymen. A Mother’s Plea is an urgent reminder that whether we live in a major American city or in a small village in the African countryside, we must do our part to ensure peace for our children; and for the future of our nations.”

Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Archbishop of Chicago
Septeber 2007

“This is the vividly personal story of a priest in a Chicago parish coming to terms with what the priesthood demands of a man in a great modern city. Profoundly conscious of the sin and unbelief that distort human lives and that touch him too, Father Bus is sometimes desperate in face of the hostile disregard for the Church so prevalent today.”

Edition details

• Publisher: Marian Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1596141840
• ISBN 13: 9781596141841
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 391