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Fr. Donald Haggerty’s new book contemplates Jesus’ Passion in a time of uncertainty, both inside and outside the Church
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Carmel Communications
March 5, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5, 2025 /Standard Newswire/ — There is no love without suffering and the time is quickly coming when faithful Catholics must be prepared to mirror Jesus’ Passion, writes Father Donald Haggerty in his new book, THE HOUR OF TESTING: SPIRITUAL DEPTH AND INSIGHT IN A TIME OF ECCLESIAL UNCERTAINTY (Ignatius Press).
Fr. Haggerty is a priest of the Archdiocese of New York who serves at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He taught moral theology and worked as a spiritual director in seminaries for twenty years, and has directed many retreats worldwide for the Missionaries of Charity. He is the author of numerous books on spirituality, including The Contemplative Hunger, Conversion, Contemplative Enigmas, and Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation.
THE HOUR OF TESTING suggests that the Church may soon live out a trial mirroring the Passion of her Lord — and that union with Jesus’ suffering must be central in the spiritual lives of her individual members. There is no separation between love and suffering as Christ’s own life and death exemplified. Catholics are called to live in the same way, especially today against a darkening historical backdrop, the collapse of traditional morality, and a society that has turned away from God.
With keen spiritual insight and characteristic eloquence, THE HOUR OF TESTING explores what it means to pursue holiness seriously in the 21st century, being sanctified in and through the Church’s present — or perhaps still impending — “hour of testing.”
"Fr. Donald Haggerty, one of the Church's greatest living spiritual masters, here directs his attention to one of the most pressing questions of our time: what are Catholic believers to do if and when the Church of Christ seems morally and doctrinally imperiled by the religious liberalism that has swallowed up the mainstream Protestant denominations?” said Matthew Levering, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary.
For more information, to request a review copy, or to schedule an interview with Father Donald Haggerty, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com) of Carmel Communications.
SOURCE Carmel Communications
