Amazing Grace for the Catholic Heart: 101 Stories of Faith, Hope, Inspiration & Humor Paperback - 2003

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In the spring of 1967, my younger brother was reported missing in action in Vietnam.

From the jacket flap

Amazing Grace for the Catholic Heart will help you celebrate your Catholic faith and will take you on a refreshing spiritual retreat away from the challenges and struggles of everyday life. This collection of 101 stories of faith, inspiration, hope, and humor attests to the power and beauty of God's amazing grace.

You will read about:

• A soldier who received last rites from a priest in the middle of a Vietnam battlefield yet the records show that the priest had actually died two weeks before this soldier s fateful day.
• Former world record-holding runner Alberto Salazar s return to the Catholic faith and how praying the rosary during the final stretch of a marathon gave him the supernatural power he needed to win.
• How the love of a Catholic father and his deceased daughter crossed the barriers of time and eternity during the seventh game of the 1997 World Series.
• How a mother and son were reunited after nearly fifty years of separation through the simple but faithful actions of a Confirmation teacher.

Amazing Grace for the Catholic Heart is a retreat in a book filling your soul with grace, your heart with promise, and your spirit with hope. It is the perfect gift for a friend or family member and for yourself.