By REY FLORES
The Priests We Need to Save the Church by Kevin Wells. Order from ThePriestsWeNeed.com or from sophiainstitute.com. Sophia Institute can also be contacted at 1-800-888-9344. The price is $17.95.
When this book was delivered to me weeks ago, we were starting to hear about the Wuhan virus and Democrat politicians were telling us there was nothing to worry about, in opposition to President Trump banning travelers from China to the United States.
Little did we know that very shortly we would be restricted from attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.
Members of our clergy have since been facing unprecedented challenges in serving their flocks.
In The Priests We Need to Save the Church, Kevin Wells lays out a blueprint of priestly heroism, calling for today’s shepherds to take the narrow path of self-denial once tread by St. John Vianney, the priest-saint of old, and his own uncle, the beloved Msgr. Thomas Wells, who, before his shocking murder, led more than a dozen men to the priesthood and affected the lives of thousands.
I have admired the priesthood mostly in my adulthood after I, a lapsed Catholic, returned to the Church. Since then, I have had the absolute pleasure to meet many of the real heroes in the ranks of the clergy, who have guided and sustained me and members of my family.
I think it would be a beautiful tribute to give your parish priests a copy of this book for the upcoming Father’s Day holiday.
Priests already had enough challenges before the whole pandemic thing halted the entire world. It will be interesting to see how we all will worship, and how our pastors will lead us once again, now that the pandemic lockdowns are being lifted.
Author Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, an award-winning journalist, and the author of Burst: A Story of God’s Grace When Life Falls Apart. He is a freelance writer and an active evangelist who speaks on various Catholic topics. He is president of the Msgr. Thomas Wells Society for Vocations, which financially and prayerfully commits itself to the promotion of strong priests and seminarians and to the practice of the fullness of the Catholic faith.
The point of Kevin’s book is that it is only the sure and sacrificial work of parish priests that can get the Church back onto the straight and narrow path, making it once more the holy and bountiful institution Christ established two thousand years ago.
Kevin’s work with youth earned him the James Cardinal Hickey National Figure Award from the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. Kevin lives in Millersville, Md., with his wife and three children. He loves baseball, reading, and his backyard fire pit (with many men gathered around).
If you would like to obtain Msgr. Wells’ book, From the Pastor’s Desk: Spiritual Reflections, or learn more about Msgr. Wells or the Msgr. Thomas Wells Society, please visit the Msgr. Thomas Wells Society Facebook page or visit www.kevinwells.org.
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(Rey Flores writes opinion and book and movie reviews for The Wanderer. Contact Rey at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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