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GIFTS that make a “double difference…”


Books make really great gifts for Birthdays / Christmas. Fr Paul Glynn’s latest “Like a Samurai” has just been released and is already a best-seller for a cause.

All profits from the sale of Fr Glynn’s books go to the impoverished people of the 3rd world.
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INTRODUCTION TO FR.
PAUL GLYNN AND HIS BOOKS
Singapore fell in 1942 and one of the many Australians who became Japanese prisoners was Army Chaplain Lionel Marsden. He preached a simple message to fellow slave labourers on the Thailand Railway: We are Christians, we rise above hatred”—until a guard’s kick sent him tumbling down an embankment. The padre picked himself up, consumed with an anger that gradually turned to hatred, and then to depression: he had become
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A SONG FOR NAGASAKI
1998 (11th Printing 2005)
“A Song for Nagasaki is the story of Takashi Nagai, M.D pioneer professor of radiology at the University of Nagasaki, who died of atomic disease 6 years after the second atomic bomb incinerated his wife and home. It is also the story of his spiritual pilgrimage from his native Shintoism to atheistic rationalism and then to a rationalist complacency disturbed by Pascal’s Pensées. His heart, convinced by the fervour of the family he boarded with, converted to a lively Christian faith.
Skillfully weaving Japanese culture and the history of Christianity in Japan throughout the development of Nagai’s intellectual and spiritual growth, Glynn (an Australian Marist who has served over 20 years in Japan) not only broadens the reader’s perspective but deeply touches the heart.”
       - Bob Flynn, America

PSALMS SONGS FOR THE WAY HOME
1996

“Every page of this book on Psalms is a testimony to the author’s reverence and love for these great biblical prayers. And his love is infectious. All the while protesting that he is an amateur, Fr Glynn skilfully demonstrates the poetic depth of the Psalms, their complex relationship to Israel’s history, and the epic biblical themes that course through them. The reader who may just be beginning to get acquainted with this part of the Bible will find here a sure-footed and spirited guide.
“Through this book many more people will drink anew from the wellsprings of the Psalms.
        - Donald Senior C.P., Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois


THE SMILE OF A RAGPICKER
1992

The Smile of the Ragpicker, similar in intent to the Nagasaki book, is about Satoko, a modern Japanese woman from a wealthy, aristocratic family who abandoned everything to live and work with Tokyo’s destitute dustbin sifters. As ex-Ambassador John Menadue says in the Forward, she becomes a heroine of reconciliation between different social classes and religions. She died in poverty aged only 29, but continues to inspire a widening circle of admirers. Her deep Christian faith is all the more attractive for the love she retained of her thoroughly Japanese upbringing and heritage.


HEALING FIRE FROM FROZEN EARTH
1999
This is a personal-experience book. In his early twenties the author had problems believing the miracle – heavy Gospels –and given all the tragedies in life, believing in a “loving Creator.” Then he came across documented books on Lourdes, claiming the instantaneous healing of thousands of very physical diseases. He became convinced, though painstaking study, of the objective reality of the healings, and of the loving God behind them and behind the Gospels. Recently he spent considerable time in Lourdes researching the modern healings, meeting many of those involved. He hopes this update book will help people looking for certitude in our “Post-modern” society that is often shot with doubt, cynicism, crass materialism, meaninglessness  – and loss of peace of heart.

THE WAYSIDE STREAM
2003

The Wayside Stream” is really a gathering of stories about people who experienced reconciliation. Some of them have been deeply hurt and thought they could never forgive, or come to peaceful terms with the wounds, with the injustice of it all.
They tell how they approached the problem, were helped to overcome it, and speak of the great peace and new freedom they experienced.
Some of them became spiritual guides for others precisely because they had suffered. The healing of memories is a way of prayer that helped the author and some of those who tell their story in this book. Dr Nagai, the hero of the spiritual renewal in Nagasaki after the A-bomb, left a simple but effective piece of advice: “Let us be kind to one another, because we are all lonely.”

"LIKE A SAMURAI" THE TONY GLYNN STORY
2008
For forty-two years Fr Tony Glynn continued the reconciliation work in Japan begun by ex Australian P.O.W. Padre Lionel Marsden. Tony Glynn delivered over 150,000 items like winter clothing to post war impoverished Japanese. He raised over one million dollars for land, a church, a large kindergarten, and a parish centre in Tomigaoka, Japan – where he brought several hundred Japanese into the Catholic Faith. He led the seven pioneering Buddhist/Christian Prayer pilgrimages to Pacific War sites –from Lae to Nagasaki. For his reconciliation work he was given an MBE (from the Queen), an AO (from the Australian Government) and from the Japanese Emperor the Order of the Rising Sun.
Despite the pain of aggressive cancer he ran his busy parish until he collapsed at Sunday Mass, dying four days later. A Japanese parishioner said: “He died like a Samurai for his liege lord, Jesus and his Japanese people.”

HEARERS OF SILENT MUSIC
   A 36 page booklet written by Fr Paul Glynn SM on personal prayer.

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