Father at Night is a collection of my personal stories and reflections on the vocation of fatherhood, its challenges, triumphs, defeats, consolations, humour, sorrows and joys lived in circumstances ranging from difficult to impossible.
"... the family seems at times a hospital, a prison, a boarding house and a mental institution. It is all of these and more, of course. It is a place of 'fearful beauty', packed to the full with every emotion imaginable, with moments of brilliant illumination and dark squalor, with limitless opportunities for heroism and for sin. ... It is the great school of the soul." ~ Michael O'Brien
published by Justin Press
www.justinpress.ca
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John Paul II's Biblical Way of the Cross |
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:40 |
Building on the worldwide interest in the Biblical way of the Cross established by Pope John Paul II, authors Amy Wellborn and Michael Dubruiel have written meditations that invite readers to walk with Christ from Gethsemane to his death and burial. The fourteen full colour illustrations are painted by Michael D. O'Brien.
Available from Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana www.avemariapress.comor from: www.amazon.com
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The Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary |
The Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary
Text and paintings by Michael D. O'Brien
published 1992 by The White Horse Press, Ottawa
Currently out of print. Upon completion of painting the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary, a new edition with all twenty Mysteries is scheduled to be published in A.D. 2012.
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From the publisher's release notes:
Waiting is a collection of five stories and reflections for Advent by the foremost of Canadian Catholic writers and artists, Michael D. O’Brien. The stories are suffused with the hope and gratitude characteristic of his work and reflect his extraordinary power to move the reader without resort to sentimentality. In Waiting, O’Brien faces the presence of evil in the world and shows us its ultimate powerlessness.
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Written by Administrator
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A Landscape with Dragons is about the shift in literature from a Christian-based world view to that of a new and revised paganism. The author examines the difference between the two and shows how the pagan message is being packaged to appear as “Christian” writing. But he deals with far more than just the problem of deception. He is examining a major crisis in traditional culture.
O’Brien uses anecdotes from his family life experiences, skillfully woven, insightful, and often amusing. He begins with a story of his own childhood night-time fears and the wise way in which his mother helped him to overcome them. Having captured our attention, he then explores the fundamental struggle that every person encounters between courage and terror. At this point he introduces us to one of the most helpful subjects covered in the book: the role of symbols, fables, and fantasy in the development of the imagination and of a healthy world view.
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