Priestling: If You Want To Embark On The Ultimate Adventure, You Have To Give Away Everything -- Including Your Baggage - Couverture souple

Mangan, Mr. Richard William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1076464335 ISBN 13 : 9781076464330

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

A troubled eighteen-year-old man sits on the curb of a parking lot in front of a building in rural Minnesota, smoking one cigarette after another, wondering if he, who has screamed at God in anger, should be allowed to eat and sleep and dwell herein. Because this is, after all, a novitiate, a seminary. But then again, he’s just visiting, right? It’s only temporary, he’s only doing it to learn more about his dead brother Darryl, who spent his last four years of life in this place. "Priestling" is the story of Wally Moriarity who, at a very dark time of his life, enters a religious order. In the novitiate Wally meets gifted athlete and scholar Andy Gallagher, funny man Alex Dubchek, and Leonard Wentfogle, a young man with an odd demeanor and a tragic past, and all of them soon form a special friendship with the Padre, an ancient, infirmary-bound theologian who once counseled Popes before he was disgraced and banished from Rome. During their formation the young men have to spend a month helping nuns at an assisted living facility for senior citizens. It is here where Wally meets a young postulant nun and experiences second thoughts about his choice of a celibate life. And as Wally delves into some very serious questions about who can be saved, and learns of forbidden texts about Adam and Eve, the unlawful Fruit of Eden, and Evolution, he begins to find, and save, himself.***** This novel, set in the early nineteen-sixties as the changes of Vatican II are beginning to filter into the religious and secular worlds, is a piece that is unlike any other Young Adult religious literature. It gives glimpses into the very human, sometimes immature and sometimes comical attempts of young men trying to become better human beings, and it touches on a variety of controversial topics including chastity, celibacy, premarital sex, homosexuality, post-traumatic stress disorder, The Holocaust, salvation without baptism, heresy, near-death experiences, forgiveness, and miracles. "Priestling" is a realistic treatment of Christian religious life from a young adult's viewpoint, with an optimistic theme and conclusion that will satisfy people of every religious and secular background. The Greatest Commandment, to Love One Another, echoes throughout its pages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1076464335
• ISBN 13: 9781076464330
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 451
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