Lead Me, Guide Me: The Life and Example of Father Dan Begin - Softcover

Ewing, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1951651278 ISBN 13: 9781951651275

Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC, 2020

Synopsis

Father Dan Begin spent thirty-five years ministering among those who lived in the poorest neighborhood in one of the poorest cities in America--Cleveland, Ohio. He was one of thirteen children, full of stories of growing up in the fifties and sixties in a hardscrabble household of thirty-seven people on Cleveland's West Side. He was a white priest who was welcomed into the homes (and church communities and funeral homes) of African-American families, as well as those of celebrities and athletes. Father Dan was irreverent, articulate, and wise. When he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2016, at the age of sixty-seven, the meaning of his life and ministry came into sharp focus. "Watch me through this," he told his family, friends, and parishioners. Just as he had always showed us how to live, at the end he showed us how to suffer and die with grace. In Lead Me, Guide Me, author Kathy Ewing describes the friendship she had with Father Dan and the profound effects his life had on her and hundreds of others by simply being an ordinary man who possessed extraordinary goodness and love.

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About the Author

Kathy Ewing has written on education, books, women's issues, and dogs, for such publications as America, National Catholic Reporter, Belt, The Bark, Brevity, The Millions, and Great Lakes Review. She teaches Latin at Cleveland State University and writing at Case Western Reserve University. Her memoir Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline Mother (Red Giant Books) appeared in 2016. She has two grown children and lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with her husband, John Ewing. She blogs at www.kathyewing.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1951651278
• ISBN 13: 9781951651275
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182