Please join us for one of OLP's reading and discussion groups! We typically break our discussion of a book into several sessions. Discussions are laid back and organized in such a way that, even if you aren't up on the reading, you'll still be able to participate. Sessions are also "come and go," so even if you miss a week or two, you're still welcome to join when you can.
Our Next Book - Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J., He Leadeth Me
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Three Sessions:
Thu, Nov 7, 2024
Thu, Nov 14, 2024
Thu, Nov 21, 2024
All meetings will be from 7:00-8:30pm in the Gathering Space
Publisher's Description: 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 of evil” that surrounded him. Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God. And through that experience, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit.
He Leadeth Me is a book to inspire all Christians to greater faith and trust in God—even in their darkest hour. As the author asks, “What can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will?”
Previous book studies can be viewed below.