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    The Sinner Saint: A Novella of St. Patrick of Ireland
    The Sinner Saint: A Novella of St. Patrick of Ireland
    The Sinner Saint: A Novella of St. Patrick of Ireland
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    The Sinner Saint: A Novella of St. Patrick of Ireland

    By Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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    “You see, my son, the saints are not so different than you or me. Their stories reveal them to be very much human. However, this frailty does not weaken their witness or holiness, but rather extends to us the invitation to the same life amidst our own frailty.” From the 1st Chapter Many of us think of Patrick as the beloved Celtic leader - a super human saint, who was blessed with a desire to do great things for God. But here Jamie Arpin-Ricci writes a fresh and informative telling of the story of his early life when he came to terms with his own humanity. He was captured by the Irish, forced to be a slave, and made to live and work for years in isolation and lonely suffering. Patrick experienced transformation over many, many years as he came to the end of himself and surrendered to God. Only then did he had the strength and faith to build his life into a mission of grace, forgiveness and discipleship.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateMar 17, 2016
    ISBN9781612618494
    The Sinner Saint: A Novella of St. Patrick of Ireland
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    Jamie Arpin-Ricci

    Jamie Arpin-Ricci is the author of The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom and the pastor of Little Flowers Community in the inner city of Winnipeg. He has spent two decades serving in ministry among the urban poor, both in North America and abroad.

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      The Sinner Saint - Jamie Arpin-Ricci

      JAMIE ARPIN-RICCI

      the sinner saint

      a novella of St. Patrick of Ireland

      PARACLETE PRESS

      BREWSTER, MASSACHUSETTS

      2016 First Printing

      The Sinner Saint: A Novella of St. Patrick of Ireland

      Copyright © 2016 by Jamie Arpin-Ricci

      ISBN 978-1-61261-849-4 (EPUB)

      ISBN 978-1-61261-850-0 (MOBI POCKET)

      ISBN 978-1-61261-851-7 (PDF)

      The Paraclete Press name and logo (dove on cross) are trademarks of Paraclete Press, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews without prior permission of the publisher.

      Published by Paraclete Press

      Brewster, Massachusetts

      www.paracletepress.com

      contents

      Auschwitz, June 1941

      chapter one

      chapter two

      chapter three

      chapter four

      chapter five

      chapter six

      Auschwitz, August 1941

      Auschwitz, June 1941

      The haggard man slumped to the rough wooden floor, his tattered uniform so filthy that the pale blue, vertical stripes were barely visible. All of the other men in the cavernous barracks, packed with countless bunks built three high, had settled into their places for the night, exhausted by a long day of hard, relentless labor. This man, however, had just completed the ritual he had observed daily since his arrival at Auschwitz two months earlier, moving from bunk to bunk offering any comfort, service, or prayer that his fellow prisoners might request. Despite his own exhaustion, he never once failed in this kindness, even when his attempts were met with scorn and bitterness. This brief time at the end, when he would sit and pray alone in silence, was his one indulgence.

      Without a word, the man bowed his head, crossing himself, as he began to pray in the same way he had, even before taking vows thirty years earlier. Lacking enough energy even to kneel, he dispensed with the finer points of the ritual; instead he raised his heart in prayer where his body hadn’t the strength. His lips moved without a sound, his fingers moving as though over invisible beads, and in that brief moment, he found peace. While most of the men in the barracks had already collapsed into restless sleep, a few lay quietly watching the weary priest as he prayed.

      Father? Tentatively breaking the silence, a middle-aged man propped himself up on his elbow from a nearby bunk. Father Kolbe?

      Yes … Francis, isn’t it? the priest asked, a tired yet warm smile on his face as he looked up at the questioning man. There were

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