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Gathering Shards

A Franciscan Life: An Autobiography

by Fr. Murray Bodo, OFM

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ISBN, perfect bound
978-1-61956-483-1
ISBN, EPUB ebook
978-1-61956-892-1
ISBN, PDF ebook
978-1-61956-893-8
Pages
404
Size
5.5 × 8.5 in
Edition
Perfect bound first edition, April 2016
Language
English

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About this book

“The following pages, fragmented and flawed though they are, attempt to gather the shards of my life into a metaphorical pottery bowl.” — Murray Bodo

Priest and poet, teacher and pilgrim, Murray Bodo looks back on a life that began as the only son of hard-working parents in Gallup, New Mexico, and led to the Franciscan friars, the priesthood, a doctorate in English, and more than forty years of summers and falls in Rome and Assisi.

Prose, poems and photographs come together: the family that formed him, his correspondence with the poet Denise Levertov, the friends who shaped his vocation, pilgrimage in the footsteps of St. Francis, and the long work of silence and prayer.

“This is more than the spiritual autobiography of Fr. Murray Bodo. It is testimony to ‘learning to live by faith alone.’” — Dana Greene

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