Humans of Heaven & The Holiness of Ordinary People (Gift Set)
Celebrate the everyday path to holiness with the "Humans of Heaven & The Holiness of Ordinary People" gift set. Discover 50 captivating stories of modern saints through a stunning coffee table book by Jana Zuniga Pingel, complete with photos, quotes, and gold foiling. Paired with essays by Madeleine Delbrêl, this set offers profound insights into the beauty of lay vocations in the Church. A perfect heirloom for inspiration and reflection.
- 50 short stories of modern day saints
- Lovely coffee table book format
- Photos, quotes, & quick facts
- Hardcover, gold foiling, heirloom style
- Insights into the lay vocation in the Church
- How holiness is found in the midst of the everyday
- Collected essays and notes by Madeleine Delbrêl
Humans of Heaven is unlike any other saint book you've experienced. It showcases 50 short stories of modern Catholic saints written by Jana Zuniga Pingel in the form of an archival coffee table book. Each saint story is paired with vintage photographs, captivating quotes, and quick facts.
It's intentionally designed to feel like an heirloom style family photo album. Every detail of this book reflects this intention, with sturdy photo paper, timeless coloring, and a sprinkling of handwritten fonts. The richly colored gren hardcover binding and gold foiling add even greater elegance. A wonderful way to showcase modern saints and inpsire holiness, and lovely decor for home.
The Holiness of Ordinary People
"There are some people whom God takes and sets apart," observes Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl (1904–1964), but "there are others whom he leaves in the masses and whom he does not withdraw from the world. These are people who do ordinary jobs, who have an ordinary household or an ordinary single life. . . . We, the ordinary people of the streets, believe with all our might that this street, that this world where God has placed us, is, for us, the site of our holiness."
French poet, social worker, and lay missionary Madeleine Delbrêl knew that Christ's unspeakable goodness touches the smallest, most forgotten corners of our everyday world—the laundry, the checkout counter, the commute. His word shines before us "while we walk in the street, while we do our work, while we peel our vegetables, while we wait for a phone call, while we sweep our floors. We see it glow between two of our neighbor's sentences and between two letters to write, when we wake up and when we go to sleep." Yet prayer alone gives us the eyes to see it.
This book gathers together essays and notes written by Delbrêl during her most active years, giving peerless insights into the distinctive lay vocation in the Church. All men and women—married and unmarried—must follow the Holy Spirit into all that is true in this world, from the small talk around the coffeepot to the great silence of the Holy Eucharist. "The holy Church expects saints," she tells us, "and saints are those who love."
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