He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith

Author: Ciszek S.J., Walter J.Brand: ImageColor: BlueEdition: ReprintFeatures: He Leadeth Me - An Extraordinary Testament of FaithBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 208Release Date: 06-05-2014Part Number: 091143Details: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply personal true story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. Only through an utter reliance on God’s will did he manage to endure the extreme hardship. He tells of the courage he found in prayer—a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustration, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the “arrogance o