Enjoy some time in the presence of a spiritual master with Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Fr. Murray Bodo. Every page of this beautifully written book offers spiritual food for thought. Bodo’s journey of 50 years as a Franciscan and talent at expressing the inexpressible enable him to share his profound insights with us. Bodo contemplates "Rainfall and Night Thoughts," "The Silence Inside," "Gray Days," "Open Spaces," and topics such as trusting, listening, letting God be God, being and doing, and much more. In the chapter on trusting, he writes, “More valuable than any logic or proof for God’s existence demonstrated in books is personal experience of God. People of prayer and interiority know God mainly through God’s working in their lives. They have known God in the prayers that were answered, in problems and in difficulties overcome that only the power of God’s Spirit can explain, and above all in the charity of their lives that transcends human patience and love and reaches a new level of selflessness that faith alone makes possible.”

This Lent, spend some time with a master who’s found the joy of God over his many years of prayer and contemplation and shares it in this very readable book.

Dennis O'Connor, author of Bridges of Faith: Building a Relationship with a Sister Parish, took part in a booksigning hosted by Reality Tuesday Café in Park Hills, Ky., held Tuesday, Dec. 8.  Posing with Dennis in this picture (taken by The Catholic Telegraph photographer Tony Tribble) is Dr. Michael Gable, Director of the Missions Office of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, who wrote the foreword for the book.  Dennis said about 40 people attended and he sold 40 copies of the book.  He has another signing in Indianapolis soon.

Bridges of Faith author Dennis O'Connor was interviewed by Karen Vance for her "Religion and Faith" column in the December 29th issue of the Cincinnati Enquirer.  Read it here.