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FR. PAUL GLYNN'S BOOKS
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 AVAILABLE FROM MMC
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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
Read on...
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Purchasing
Information:
To buy
listed books via post send $10
plus $2.50 postage or make a
cheque out to “Marist Mission Centre”.
Post
to: Marist Mission Centre, 3 Mary St, Hunters Hill, NSW
2110
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Catalogue:
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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
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| 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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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"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.”
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HEARERS OF SILENT MUSIC |
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 A
36 page booklet written by Fr Paul Glynn SM on personal prayer. |
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