THANK GOD AHEAD OF TIME
The Life and Spirituality of Solanus Casey
By Michael Crosby, O.F.M. Cap. (Third revision - 2009)
"For Solanus," Crosby writes, "knowing God demanded a threefold response: appreciation, love and service. Solanus wrote that everyone's 'purpose as a rational creature is to recognize and to know this Creator, so as to be able, intelligently to love him, confidently to hope in him, and gratefully to serve him,' " Besides the gift of healing which brought happiness to many, Solanus Casey also used his gift of prophecy to encourage and challenge and to bring back hope to others. But the humble Capuchin's greatest gift was charity - charity that not only characterized his happy relationship with God but that overflowed in the warm, caring, fraternal and even humorous way he related to his neighbor." (From the back cover of the book.) On page 4 of the introduction Fr. Michael Crosby writes - "In researching his life and writing his biography, I have been challenged to find my own "ways and means close at hand," whereby, as I reflect on his life and spirituality, I might move toward my own kind of "astonishing familiarity" with God. For this I always will be most grateful. In fact it no longer seems critical to me whether or not Solanus Casey moves to the next steps of being declared "Blessed" and then "Saint Solanus Casey." Whatever happens officially will not change my deep gratitude for being touched by his life and message, He has become, for me a "saint." ...Published by St. Anthony Messenger Press (Franciscan Library edition), paperback, 320 pages, size 8.8x5.5x0.9 inches.
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