The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God The Story of Ruth Pakaluk, Convert, Mother, and Pro-Life Activist

by Pakaluk, Ruth; Pakaluk, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781586174514
• ISBN10: 1586174517
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: Ignatius Press

Summary

This book is the powerful story of an amazing woman, Ruth Pakaluk, who converted to Catholicism at Harvard, married her college sweetheart, and joyfully welcomed seven children. She became a renowned pro-life leader and brilliant debater who was struck with breast cancer and died at the young age of forty-one.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Biographical Overview	p. 15
The True Greatness of a Christian	p. 16
True Life Stories of Christian Heroes	p. 18
I Want to Live Like Them	p. 21
A Friend's Conversion	p. 25
Encountering the Gospel of Life	p. 29
Whoever Receives a Little Child in My Name Receives Me	p. 34
President of Massachusetts' Citizens For Life	p. 37
Friendship with Christ	p. 40
Brave New Family	p. 42
A Turn Toward Heaven	p. 51
Final Months	p. 55
Selected Letters	p. 65
Undergrad at Harvard	p. 67
Living Abroad: In Edinburgh	p. 73
Where Two or Three Are Gathered Together: A New Life	p. 93
In Cambridge for Michael's Graduate Studies	p. 104
Making a Home in Worcester	p. 121
Living with Cancer	p. 126
The Cancer Spreads	p. 179
Letters to the Children	p. 204
Afterword: Our Life After Ruth	p. 209
Selected Talks	p. 215
Contrition and Sacramental Confession	p. 217
Life of Piety	p. 220
Sanctifying Ordinary Work	p. 224
The Eucharist	p. 228
Summer Vacation: Good Use of Time	p. 230
Plan of Life	p. 233
Family Life: Summer Vacation	p. 238
Poverty	p. 241
Suffering: Living Our Crosses	p. 244
Hope	p. 247
The Rosary and May Pilgrimages	p. 249
Abortion and the Culture of Human Rights	p. 253
A Myth, an Error, and a Lie	p. 266
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