My books
The Journey to the Kingdom Blessed of St. Joan and St. Thérèse
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My books are self-authored reflections on my journey with St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. It began with the grace of conversion to the Catholic Church on the Feast Day of St. Thérèse (new calendar), October 1, 1984. I received a miraculous mental, emotional, and physical healing through the intercession of St. Joan of Arc on July 17, 2006. In October of 2008, this all culminated in a call from Joan of Arc to begin writing, which turned into a decade-long project describing the phenomenon of Joan and Thérèse in my life.
The first book is Journey to Christendom - The Freedom Dance.
This book begins with what can best be described as an existential act of will to break free of the spiritual shackles that held me bound for over two decades. Importantly, the second half positions four poetic expressions as the foundation of everything I would write over the next decade. What was before me upon finishing was the challenge to actualize the prose in writing. That drove the rest of my writing for years.
This book holds the following statement from the Archdiocese of Chicago:
In accordance with c. 827, permission to publish is granted on January 13, 2010 by Very Reverend John F. Canary, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Permission to publish is an official declaration of ecclesiastical authority that the material is free from doctrinal and moral error. No legal responsibility is assumed by the grant of this permission.
The second book is Seek First the Kingdom - The March of Hope.
This book is an epilogue to Journey above. It is a continuation of the discussion. Seek First is the story of what happened next on the “Trail of the Dogmatic Creed” to Christendom. It has three more particularly important poetic expressions that are the foundation of my phenomenology of the heart of St. Joan of Arc. It is published under a previous pseudonym, S.T. Martin.
This book holds the following statement from the Archdiocese of Chicago:
In accordance with c. 827, permission to publish is granted on January 13, 2010 by Very Reverend John F. Canary, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Permission to publish is an official declaration of ecclesiastical authority that the material is free from doctrinal and moral error. No legal responsibility is assumed by the grant of this permission.
The third book is The Dove and Rose.
The Dove is St. Joan of Arc. The Rose is St. Thérèse. The book is a series of reflections on my devotion to them and which serves as the descriptive foundation for the phenomenology developed over the years.
This book does not hold a permission to print statement from the Church as it has not been submitted for review. The hermeneutical nature of its development whereby texts change frequently with new insights, in addition to the cost, precluded seeking submission to date.
The fourth book, Royaume France - The French Catholic Diaspora in America, is a deep and lengthy phenomenology of the Journey to “The Kingdom Blessed of St. Joan and St. Thérèse.” It begins with a personal testimony followed by the philosophical foundations. The book then explains the principles underlying the Kingdom and concludes with a section of poetry.
This book does not hold a permission to print statement from the Church as it has not been submitted for review. The hermeneutical nature of its development whereby texts change frequently with new insights, in addition to the cost, precluded seeking submission to date.
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