5/13/2023 0 Comments All Is Grace by Jim ForestI went to Mass the following morning and read and prayed my way into Catholicism.ĭuring an interview with Fr. I saw the film The Nun’s Story, with Audrey Hepburn, and was impressed by her portrayal of a life of prayer and service. (My mother was an atheist, but she went to church on Christmas and Easter). I became a Christian when I was ten years old. I had read Dorothy Day’s autobiography, THE LONG LONELINESS and knew that my future as a Christian, would have to be bound to the works of mercy. It was exciting work and I really enjoyed the people I was working with. I’d been in the Navy, in Washington, DC, working as a meteorologist. Of that time, you have said, “I was excited to find a way of life shaped by the Works of Mercy.” Could you expand a bit on that? In 1961 you joined the Catholic Worker in New York City. Marcellus Award from the Catholic Peace Fellowship. He received the Peacemaker Award from Notre Dame University’s Institute for International Peace Studies and the St. From 1977 through 1988, he was Secretary General of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, work which brought him to the Netherlands. In the late sixties and mid-seventies, Jim also worked with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, first as Vietnam Program coordinator and later as editor of Fellowship magazine.
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