Father Joe

by TonyHendra (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.29

  Tony Hendra was saved by Father Joe, not just once, but many, many times. From the first teenage indiscretion that saw him brought before the worldly-wise monk with jug-ears and plates for feet, through the years of drink, drug-taking, a failed marriage, materialism, and the loss of his shaky faith, there was always kind, patient Father Joe waiting, ready to dispense words of wisdom. Tony Hendra tells us how he went to America and found great success, but after twenty-five years he saw himself teetering on the edge of a terrifying abyss. An edge that only Father Joe could pull him back from.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.29

  Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. When the woman's husband learnt of their involvement, he whisked Tony off to see a priest and be saved. The priest was Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine monk. And during the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony discovered that his visits to Father Joe remained the one constant in his life the relationship that, in the most serious sense, saved it.