Böcker av Dominic Allain

This book presents a selection of the best of the weekly'Pastor Iuventus' columns from The Catholic Herald.Arranged over a year, the columns give us a true-lifepicture of the ministry of a parish priest in a busy city. The diaryconvincingly conveys the tangible and day-to-day reality of apriest's life and work. The journal is about the endless fascinationsof parish life: the highs and lows, births and deaths, newchallenges, and, amongst all these, the quiet presence of God.The author tells it as it is, with candour and insight, but also withhumour and brilliance. Through the everyday life of the parish,the local hospital and the school, we are given an intimateportrayal of real life. The reader will be moved and inspired by thebeauty and depth of these weekly columns. As the year unfolds,the journal reminds us of the closeness of the Providence of Godto every human life.As Dr William Oddie says in the Foreword to the first edition,Father Allain's diary column provides readers with "an often vividinside track on the spiritual life of a parish priest, in a way whichcertainly conveys its pressures and difficulties, but which alsonurtures the spiritual imagination of its readers by demonstratingthat those pressures and difficulties can always - with a simpleand basic faith in the realities of a working Catholic spirituality -be withstood and transcended."Fr Dominic Allain was ordained priest for the Archdiocese ofSouthwark. Now the International Pastoral Director for 'Grief toGrace' - a programme which brings spiritual and psychological healingto survivors of sexual and other abuse (www.grieftograceuk.org), healso works as a retreat giver and spiritual director. This book draws onhis experiences as a parish priest and hospital chaplain in the Londonarea. He is well-known to many through his weekly columns, 'PastorIuventus', in The Catholic Herald.