Let Us Be What We Are: The Joys and Challenges of Living the Little Way - Softcover

Enzler, Clarence J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870612565 ISBN 13: 9780870612565

Publisher: Christian Classics, 2012

Synopsis

This final work from Clarence Enzler offers a glimpse into the life of a Christian disciple facing his own mortality and reflecting on holiness, family, and the saints--in particular St. Therese of Lisieux, to whom Enzler had a great devotion.

First published in 1978, Let Us Be What We Are explores the Christian life as seen through a personal, intimate, one-on-one conversation with Jesus as he faces serious illness and contemplates his life as a father, deacon, writer, and disciple. He draws readers into his devotion to the "Little Way" of St. Therese, explaining how this practice helped him offer his own small sufferings to God, especially when he faced a major surgery. Enzler tells how he learned to unite his suffering with that of Christ in his own personal Holy Week.

About this title

About the Author:

Clarence Joseph Enzler (1910-1976) was an accomplished speechwriter and speaker, and the bestselling author of Everyone's Way of the Cross, In the Presence of God, and My Other Self. He held a doctorate from Catholic University of America and was a deacon in the Archdiocese of Washington.

Monsignor John J. Enzler is Clarence Enzler's son and President and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Review:

"Deacon Enzler's 'little way' is recognizably Thérèse's, yet it is undoubtedly his. In following him on his way, we can surely find our own--the particular little way God wills for us. He is writing within the great spiritual tradition, but translating the riches into an idiom that's distinctively American and contemporary."

--Mike Aquilina, coauthor of The Mass: The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition

About this edition

• Publisher: Christian Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0870612565
• ISBN 13: 9780870612565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175