The Graces We Remember: Sacred Days of Ordinary Time [Hardcover]

Phyllis Tickle (Author)

Book Description

Series: Tickle, Phyllis | Publication Date: April 2004

In her three-book series that spans the liturgical year, renowned author Phyllis Tickle recalls simple stories from life on her familyís farm in Lucy, Tennessee. In spiritually uplifting and nostalgic memoirs, Tickle records the richness of faith in everyday life.

The Graces We Remember, the third book in the series, provide tales from the end of Pentecost to the beginning of Advent. Tickle recalls special saints? feast days, splendid autumn mornings, and grace-filled moments found in ordinary time.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Tickle (The Divine Hours; The Shaping of a Life), PW's contributing editor in religion, finishes her Stories from the Farm in Lucy trilogy with grace, wit and keen spiritual observations. Following previous volumes on the sacred days of Advent and Lent, this one addresses the liturgical season after Pentecost, which the Christian church has traditionally given the modest label "ordinary time." But in Tickle's stories, these feast days of the summer and fall are anything but ordinary. As her family is privileged to witness a bull's remarkable ritual of mourning for a cow who died on their farm, Tickle realizes that they are treated to this display on the day before Michaelmas, "the one day of the year when all Christendom pays at least lip service to invisible realities and unseen orders." The feast day of Mary Magdalene (July 22), who was probably not a prostitute, becomes an opportunity for Tickle to write about her sensuous, middle-aged hairdresser, Bonnie, who most certainly was: her downstairs salon put a genteel face on the more mysterious goings-on in her upstairs apartment. In one of the book's most poignant moments, Bonnie asks Tickle to write her into a book someday, since Bonnie worries that otherwise, no one will remember her life. Most stories are both funny and luminous. In "Just a Little about Lawrence," Tickle reveals that there is a "presence" at her house: a ghost named Lawrence who has been with the family for decades. It's a hilarious story, but very candid and full of both doubt and wonder.
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Review

"With wisdom, humor, and deep insight, Tickleís gorgeous compositions speak to the spiritual riches of the entire season." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, 9/22/03

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 150 pages
• Publisher: Loyola Press; 1st Loyola Press Ed edition (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0829417672
• ISBN-13: 978-0829417678
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #684,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Phyllis Tickle, founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, is one of the most highly respected authorities and popular speakers on religion in America today. She is the author of more than two dozen books including the Divine Hours series of prayer manuals. A lector and lay eucharistic minister in the Episcopal Church, Tickle is a senior fellow of the Cathedral College of Washington National Cathedral. For more information go to www.phyllistickle.com and www.allthewordsofjesus.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, July 5, 2007

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This review is from: The Graces We Remember: Sacred Days of Ordinary Time (Hardcover)

A series of essays about Ordinary Time that are extraordinary. Mrs. Tickle uses her stories to help us understand the liturgical calendar.