SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA - A VOICE FROM HEAVEN
...by Anton Rotzetter, O.F.M. Cap.- Translated by Sahon Therese Nemeth
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OUT OF PRINT. New copies from dealer's closeout inventory"Rather than begin the book with the biological birth of Saint Anthony, Rotzetter asks the reader some foundational questions: "Could birth be the moment when the world first takes note of us? When we step out of the shadows and into the light of the world and are perceived by others?" With this, Rotzetter sets out to tell the tale of Saint Anthony from his "birth" in the fall of 1222, "when a great preacher was born, and the world received...a voice from heaven." From the first day Anthony spoke in public, he became the person we recognize today: "the speaker, evangelist, preacher, theologian and, to use the words of Saint Francis, one who gives 'spirit and life'." "His earthly existence was like a shooting star in the heavens: he would not even be granted a full ten years to light the way home for others. On June 13, 1231 the star was extinguished outside the city of Padua, at the same time to rise again in a completely different way ... Therefore I'm not able to tell the story of my patron saint in a linear fashion: there are no straight lines between birth and death, just as there aren't between earthly and eternal life. There are only cracks and fissures. I hope to show this as well through my telling of his story." Fr. Anton Rotzetter, January 1995. Published by St. Anthony Messenger in 2004, paperback, 96 pages.
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