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Praise for In Due Season
"Paul Wilkes's memoir is a love story—and also a story ofa struggle with the lover, in his case, God. The son of animmigrant, Wilkes felt that he was called to a priestly vocation,indeed a Trappist vocation. God sent him many signals that this wasnot his calling. So Paul had to settle for what he thought to be asecond-best vocation—a very successful writer. God heaved asigh of relief. Paul had finally 'got it.' He has written a memoirof the century."
—Andrew Greeley, author, The Catholic Imagination
"Paul Wilkes is that rarest of people—a deeply spiritualman who is also an absolutely exquisite writer. His absorbing newmemoir reveals the wonderful things that can happen when you allowGod to lead you along life's often bumpy path—whether or notyou know where the journey will lead. This is a beautifullywritten, frequently haunting, and always fascinating story ofseeking and finding, serving and loving,and—ultimately—dying and rising. Highlyrecommended."
—James Martin, SJ, author, My Life with the Saints
"Paul Wilkes's biography takes us through Paul's life, butthrough the stages of our own lives as well. As a result, at theend of it we can see how we, too, have become more than we everthought we could be. Wilkes is a great writer–he has arefreshing style, a direct voice, and a stark and unfurbishedhonesty, even about himself. In Due Season has all the marksof Augustine's Confessions or Merton's Seven Storey Mountain. Itgives the rest of us, whatever we've done, wherever we've been,hope. It helps us see the forest of our lives despite thetrees.
Read this book. It can put the seasons of your own life intobetter, broader perspective."
—Joan Chittister, author, Called to Question: A SpiritualMemoir
Paul Wilkes' In Due Season takes the reader on a movingjourney through an extraordinary era's thickets of AmericanCatholic life and belief—opening at last into wisdom,affirmation, and hope.
—James Carroll, author, Practicing Catholic and AnAmerican Requiem, winner of the National Book Award
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