Book details

  • Genre:religion
  • Sub-genre:Christianity / Catholic
  • Language:English
  • Pages:96
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317822446

Jesus With Us: A Poetic Journey Through the Catholic Liturgical Year

By Paul F. Kennedy

Overview

This collection of beautiful poems and photographs honors the Catholic liturgical year, from Advent to Christ the King. It features the Christmas and Easter seasons, Marian feasts, special saints, and secular holidays with religious significance. Photographs taken by the author in Rome, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Florida, Ohio and his beloved Pittsburgh grace the pages and complement the poems. The overarching theme is that Jesus is with us - really with us - in flesh and blood and spirit.
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Description

Paul F Kennedy's Jesus With Us captures the essence of the American Catholic experience in a novel, creative way. The 24 poems and 30 photographs blend the Catholic liturgical year with American holidays to render a thoughtful, inspiring testament of faith. Paul took photographs at St. Peter's in Rome, the Tomb of Jesus, the Garden of Gethsemane, Manger Square in Bethlehem, and Nazareth. Other photos include stained glass windows and statues at churches, illustrating the poems and the feasts. Family pictures accompany Mother's Day, Father's Day, and St. Valentine's Day, the human element being so crucial to those feasts. This book emphasizes how Jesus, his mother, and the saints have been with us throughout the past two millenia, and continue to influence our world. They speak to us through visual art, the written word, and the Word made flesh.
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About The Author

Paul F Kennedy lives in Pittsburgh with his wife Patty. He is a graduate of Central Catholic High School, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Carnegie Mellon University. He is a retired Disability Hearings Officer, and has been a freelance writer since the early 1990s. He is currently a docent at the Fort Pitt Block House, and a cantor soloist at Christ the King Parish. Hobbies include winemaking, travel, genealogy and studying languages. Paul has written over 60 articles for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, mostly about local history. He has had poems published in Laurel Highlands Scene, Raystown Review and Miraculous Medal. He has had short stories published in Bridge and Tunnel Books and Loyalhanna Review, and a memoir in Pittsburgh Quarterly. He is the author of A Pittsburgh Gamble, a novel set in Pittsburgh at the time of the 1960 World Series, Billy Conn: the Pittsburgh Kid, a biography of Pittsburgh boxer Billy Conn, and Point Breeze Stories, a collection of short stories and memoirs set in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh. His 2014 article The Man Who Saved the Block House was featured on the front page of the Sunday Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial section.
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