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Be inspired by saints like never before in My Life with the Saints by James Martin, SJ. This best-selling memoir of spiritual self-discovery is an homage to the saints who have accompanied Fr. Martin throughout his life. From a lukewarm childhood Catholicism, to the Wharton School of Business, to the executive fast track at General Electric, to the Jesuits, to a media career in Manhattan, Martin has relied on the saints to intervene in and guide his life.
As Martin shares with us his many surprising encounters and journeys with the saints, he convincingly explains how we, too, can be close friends with the saints.
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Good discussion on Francis, a little idealistic.
- By Photo and Music Guy on 12-10-12
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My Sisters the Saints
- A Spiritual Memoir
- By: Colleen Carroll Campbell
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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In My Sisters the Saints, author Colleen Carroll Campbell blends her personal narrative of spiritual seeking, trials, stumbles, and breakthroughs with the stories of six women saints who profoundly changed her life: Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Faustina of Poland, Edith Stein of Germany, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Mary of Nazareth. Drawing upon the rich writings and examples of these extraordinary women, the author reveals Christianity's liberating power for women and the relevance of the saints to the lives of contemporary Christians.
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Beautifully written and sincere
- By mamabakineer on 01-23-20
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Which None Can Shut
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- By: Reema Goode
- Narrated by: Jon Gauger
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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“Reema Goode” and her family are Christians working in a closed Middle Eastern country where all of these things are true. Yet they are also firsthand witnesses of a whole new trend that is taking shape in missions to Muslims. Despite all obstacles, God is opening miraculous doors in the Islamic world, where an unprecedented number of Muslims are becoming followers of Jesus. Reema takes us deep inside her Arab neighborhood to show how God is opening doors in just one of many Islamic communities.
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Riveting Story
- By Kaye on 08-24-13
By: Reema Goode
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The renowned and beloved New York Times best-selling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.
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Narrator’s use of a “Southern Accent” was extremely distracting
- By Mary Pat on 03-13-19
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Bonhoeffer
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As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in 40 years, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life - the theologian and the spy - to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil.
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Mandatory Reading
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Touching and enlightening
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A Life Observed
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A Life Observed tells the inspiring story of Lewis' spiritual journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian. Drawing on Lewis' autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this spiritual biography brings the beloved author’s story to life while shedding light on his best-known works.
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A beautifully written remembrance
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Unveiling Grace
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- By: Lynn K. Wilder
- Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr
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For 30 years, Lynn Wilder, once a tenured faculty member at Brigham Young University, and her family lived in, loved, and promoted the Mormon Church. Then, their son Micah, serving his Mormon mission in Florida, had a revelation: God knew him personally. God loved him. And the Mormon Church did not offer the true gospel. As Lynn tells her story of abandoning the deception of Mormonism to receive God's grace, she gives a rare look into Mormon culture, what it means to grow up Mormon, and why the contrasts between Mormonism and Christianity make all the difference in the world.
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Enlightening information
- By S. Herzog on 08-19-14
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The Seven Storey Mountain
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The Seven Storey Mountain is the extraordinary spiritual testament of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery. By the end of his life, he had become one of the 20th century's best-known and beloved Christian voices. This autobiography deals...not with what happens to a man, but what happens inside his soul.
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Letter to Audible
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How God Hauled Me Kicking and Screaming into the Catholic Church
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Author Kevin Lowry's journey to Catholicism is fascinating, often funny, and demonstrates God's unfailing, patient love for all of us. A preacher's kid at a Catholic university, Kevin Lowry settled into a double major in beer and billiards soon followed by uncomfortable run-ins with pious students, failing grades, increasing anxiety, a missing night, and the startling realization that some fellow students actually attended Mass the morning after a party instead of sleeping it off. After getting kicked out, Kevin got his act together, got the MBA, and also got the girl.
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Struggling with your faith?
- By MICHAEL P. on 10-16-18
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- AB
- 03-27-15
Life changing!
A moving book wonderfully narrated by Father Martin. Fantastic in every sense. Thank you Father Martin for sharing your experiences!
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- Bryan
- 11-06-15
Great detail. Good summation
Loved hearing the good, bad and ugly sides of the daints. Fr Martin humanized then while still upholding their faith and determination to live in God's love. I could actually imagine the scen3s he described and his emotions of anger, hope, humor, humility and serenity.
For those of you thinking of quitting a few chapters in... please don't. Fr Martin's ministry in jail was hysterical.... "Hail mary, hail Mary, hail Mary." I almost spit out my coffee. Thanks Fr Martin you have done a great job.
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- JoAnne E. Baker
- 01-10-15
A Truly Thought Provoking Book
Father Martin does a wonderful job of putting the reader in the journey of the Saint. It was easy to picture each Saint as he described their journey. In addition, I appreciated the way Father Martin incorporated his own story as he was learning about the Saints.
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- Josh
- 02-07-13
I really like this author, and am a fan of saints.
What made the experience of listening to My Life With the Saints the most enjoyable?
There's a certain charm in the blending of personal narrative and saintly biography that I find delightful. I enjoy people who are comfortable talking about themselves--not in the narcissistic way, but in the "I've done some reflecting on my life and would like to share it with you" way. Father Martin has that quality, and this is a good example of how he mixes himself with this subject.
What did you like best about this story?
The stories of the saints themselves, particularly those I didn't know much about, including the African martyrs.
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- connie
- 05-16-10
easy listening hagiography
I was so excited to see St Anthony Messenger Press titles added to Audible that I quickly used up all my accumulated credits on several. In fact, I misread the title of this and thought it was a memoir of contemporary life in the Jesuits.
After my inital disappointment, it turned out to be easy listening stories of Saints, mostly from a fresh perspective -- a vehicle for Martin's tale of his spiritual pilgrmage ---which of course did eventually involve Jesuits, but much more also.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-16-18
An inspiring approach to the life of the saints
While telling the life of the saints James Martins inspires us to ask for our own sanctuality.
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- Teresa
- 02-27-15
One of my Favorites
My Life With the Saints is a special audiobook for me. I was first given the book by a friend at Church and was really hoping to find it in audio format and when I did I was very happy. I listen to parts of this audiobook almost every night.
James Martin is a Jesuit Priest and a wonderful storyteller. I especially like that he narrated his own book. That makes it all the more better. This has been a helpful audiobook for me at all times and I would definitely recommend the audio version for those who haven't heard or read his books before.
A real joy in my life.
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- James Scott
- 03-21-17
Will expand your reading list
An excellent overview of the life of various saints and why they matter. Written as a personal memoir, but also highly relatable. I find myself adding several full biographies to my reading list based on these intriguing overviews
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- Richard K.
- 12-09-10
The title describes the book
I almost deleted this book after the first 20 minutes. I had just listened to a purely factual book and expected 'My Life with the Saints' to be similar: a condensed biography of a selection of saints. It seemed too slow and conversational. But then I understood that this was his "life" with the Saints, not a book about the "lives of the Saints". Well it isn't. It interweaves the life of James Martin with lessons and some history of the Saints he selects. To use a cliche, he "makes the Saints come alive". Through the book you see the relevance of these Saints in a modern world, to the poor in Africa, to the homeless, to the student and office workers. There are some who are not canonized Saints - Pedro Arupe for example and Thomas Merton. But what "saintly" lives they led. And then there is the very last chapter. It brings perspective to "sainthood" that I hardly imaged. That was the great tour de force. I listened to the book over about a month to and from work and was excited to see who the next Saint was. I miss Father Martin's conversational style and the people - both Saints and the "ordinary" people he met in his travels. This is a great start if any one wants to visit with the Saints prior to jumping headlong into biographies of individual ones. I hope he writes / records volume 2. By the way, I am not Catholic - but my life was inspired by these men and women through the book.
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- Mary LaMoreaux
- 01-16-17
Excellent Book and Interesting Reading
What did you like best about this story?
This story was as much autobiographical as it was spiritual.
What about James Martin’s performance did you like?
This narrator kept me listening. Very good.
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