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In God's Own Time, St. Francis De Sales Parish -  A Christian Community In Worship & Service 1948-1998 by Mona L. Schwind, OP Retail Price: $29.95 Our Price: $17.97 You Save: $11.98 (40%) In-Stock: Ships within 3-7 days Format: Softcover, 166pp. ISBN: 0-9659914-0-7 Publisher: St. Francis De Sales Pub. Date: October 1997

Synopsis:
Drawing on previously unavailable sources, this detailed account of the history of St. Francis De Sales Parish - the largest parish along the shore of Lake Michigan, presents images, insights, and accounts from the early 1800's to the present.

From the publisher:
This is a narrative of an evolving Roman Catholic community united in worship and service. There is the obvious and traditional framework of pastoral administration, with pastors and associates in priestly ministry and leadership. There is the visible and needful work of the church building- in the case of St. Francis De Sales Parish on a monumental and world-class scale. There is as well the strong and steady theme of active participation in the life of the local church. this is a narrative of ever widening pastoral work, of inclusivity and universality, of times of planting, times of uprooting, and times of harvesting.

From the impressive roster of priestly servants which dedicates the parish's service-building to the great unprinted roster of parishioners, living and deceased, of charter members to the most recently welcomed catechumen, this narrative gathers all into the flock that is Christ's. It is an apostolic succession: a long-line of peoples called forth to praise, bless, worship, and serve in this place, in these times.

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