Call number
922.2 CAM
Status
Checked out
Due 1 Mar 2024
Call number
Pages
224
Description
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.
Publication
Image (2012), 224 pages
Original publication date
2012
ISBN
0770436498 / 9780770436490
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LibraryThing member LadyoftheLodge
While I did read the entire book, I had to stop halfway through as it was so depressing. The author uses the lives of the saints as a vehicle to underscore her personal memoirs. However, nothing seems to go well in her life. The agonizing details of her father's descent into dementia, as well as
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the minute by minute apprisal of her labor to deliver twins, were unbearable. I was really tired of hearing about her monthly disappointments of non-pregnancy. This read like a reality show in print,and a maudlin one at that. I think the author wrote this book for herself, perhaps as an attempt to come to grips with issues in her life, and to purge herself of the sorrows detailed in the book. Show Less
LibraryThing member nightprose
This spiritual memoir is powerful. The author draws the reader in with its very human journey. The challenges she faces are very relatable. As she is dealing with illness and loss, relationships, the draw of motherhood, career issues, and more, she is also trying to find her place in the world.
Ultimately, she turns to her Catholic roots to help sort it all out. Reconnecting with women saints at critical junctures along the way, the author finds a sense of sisterhood. She realizes these very human women faced similar challenges. Each saint struggled with spirituality in a harsh human world, too. Reading the words from their personal journey, she is able to draw inspiration and strength for her own.
This beautiful memoir reads easily and quickly, but leaves you feeling fulfilled. As a woman who was raised Southern Baptist and converted to Catholicism, I could relate to her spiritual journey. This is an important book that I will read again and again.
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Ultimately, she turns to her Catholic roots to help sort it all out. Reconnecting with women saints at critical junctures along the way, the author finds a sense of sisterhood. She realizes these very human women faced similar challenges. Each saint struggled with spirituality in a harsh human world, too. Reading the words from their personal journey, she is able to draw inspiration and strength for her own.
This beautiful memoir reads easily and quickly, but leaves you feeling fulfilled. As a woman who was raised Southern Baptist and converted to Catholicism, I could relate to her spiritual journey. This is an important book that I will read again and again.
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LibraryThing member jana.sullinger
I identified with her search for meaning quite a bit. I thought it was a great read. And a nice surprised as I just picked it up on a whim.