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While dissolute bishops and priests around the world grab headlines for their untoward words and deeds, too many other unfruitful priests minister as little more than glad-handing bachelors doing social service work. Top and bottom, is this the Church that Christ intended? Are these the priests we need? "No!" cries author Kevin Wells in these compelling pages that showcase how heroic priests can faithfully tread the narrow path of holy self-sacrifice first blazed by the apostles themselves. From scores of insightful interviews with modern priests, exorcists, seminary formators, and even disillusioned laity, Wells here draws forth a blueprint for priestly holiness that can once again fill our Church with priests abounding with sincere, supernatural faith, on fire with God's love, and moved by the irresistible impulse to save souls, no matter the cost to themselves. Reading this book will deepen your own faith and help you understand what all priests, by their vocation, are consecrated and called to be. Giving a copy to your parish priest will help him - and encourage him-as he strives to become a member of the small but growing contingent of holy priests we need.

ISBN-13: 9781644130322

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Sophia Institute Press

Publication Date: 08-16-2019

Pages: 240

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Kevin Wells is a former sports reporter with the Tampa Tribune, where he covered Major League Baseball and other sports. He is the author of Burst, A Story of God’s Grace When Life Falls Apart. He is a freelance writer and evangelist, addressing various Catholic topics.Wells is President of the Monsignor Thomas Wells Society for Vocations, which financially and prayerfully commits itself to the promotion of strong priests, seminarians, and practicing the fullness of the Catholic Faith. His work with youth earned him the James Cardinal Hickey National Figure Award from the Archdiocese of Washington. He lives in Millersville, Maryland with his wife and three children. He loves baseball, reading, and his backyard fire pit with many friends gathered around.In 2009, he survived a close brush with death after a malformed line of vessels in his brain hemorrhaged. The day after invasive brain surgery failed to control the flow of blood that was compressing his brain, Kevin was anointed by Fr. James Stack — the longtime best friend of his murdered uncle, Msgr. Thomas Wells. To this day, witnesses in the dark neuro-ICU room still tell of the miracle that unfolded at his bedside.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 An Ax, a Tomahawk, and the Night of Lights 13

2 Hot Summer, Cool Priest 21

3 Be Vianney, Be the Curé 35

4 Tommy: The Happy Martyr 49

5 Holiness and Victimhood: The Lone Paths Forward 61

6 The Eucharistic Glow 85

7 Our Blessed Mother 101

8 Prayer: A Priest's Connection to God 113

9 Asceticism: The Soul-Stretching Work of the Priest 127

10 The Fatherhood of the Priest 147

11 Availability: The Shepherd's Wellspring of Love 167

12 The Prophetic Voice in the Desert 181

13 Carpe Diem 201

Epilogue 217

About the Author 229