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Father John P. McNamee's book Diary of a City Priest is an example of a spiritual journal, an account of God's presence in the writer's life. At times a reflection of gritty reality, it also records where the writer has heard (or failed to hear) the promptings of the Holy Spirit - the touchstones contributing to deeper understanding and the experience of divine grace.
The title Diary of a City Priest is intended to evoke an earlier fictional work, George Bernanos's Diary of a Country Priest, written in 1936 and adapted for the screen by Robert Bresson in 1951. This classic of Catholic literature tells the story of a devout and withdrawn young priest's assignment to his first rural parish, assailed by self-doubt and unable to solve the problems of his parishioners' problems, progressing through pain to grace.
Read some excerpts from Diary of a City Priest, the book.
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