The Journey to Peace: Reflections on Faith, Embracing Suffering, and Finding New Life

by Joseph Bernardin, Jeremy Langford, Alphonse P Spilly

Book Overview

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1928-1996) touched millions of people through his passionate witness, humble wisdom, and spiritual writings. In the final months of his life he shared his personal reflections in The Gift of Peace , a modern classic about finding inner peace in the face of life's greatest trials. As part of his rich legacy, The Gift of Peace has become an international bestseller and has brought courage, healing, faith, hope, and love to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385501021
• ISBN13: 9780385501026
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Image
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Terrific companion to 'The Gift of Peace'

Whatever your exposure to the late Cardinal, you must admire his example of the Christian life. In the Gift of Peace, he invited us to walk beside him during his final months. In this volume, Spilly & Langford have artfully woven together extended excerpts from his homilies while Archbishop of Chicago. The book is divided into chapters identified by the Stations of the Cross -- a device that both illuminates the Cardinal's own words, as well as the putting the Way of the Cross into a contemporary context, thus reminding us that the Cross itself is as real today as it was two thousand years ago.If you loved Cardinal Bernadin as we in Chicago did, you will of course love this book. But even if this is your first encounter, you will come to know him like a dear friend -- and learn much from his humility, his prayerfulness, his humiliation and exoneration, and his very public suffering and passing.