Transforming Grace: Becoming Thoughtful Men and Women of God

by Anne, a lay apostle

"On any given day, the priest must reach back into heaven through his soul and grab what is holy to offer to the people. The beauty of God's presence and truth must be piped through the humanity of the priest like water through a faucet. And a well-constructed, challenging and honest support system is imperative for the man so that God can work with freedom in the vocation."

-An excerpt from Citizens of Heaven



"I believe, from heaven, we will see each person with their crosses trying to manage wounds and weaknesses as they try to fix on their identity in Christ. As beloved children of the Father, we must accept no ugly exclusion of any group of people. We accept, as followers, that we lack full understanding of the condition of any man. Only God can judge."

-An excerpt from Diocesan Priesthood as a Point of Entry for a Co-responsible Laity





"In my time, my instruction was clear. God asked me to rebuild His Church and in my human and limited thinking, I began at once, not knowing or understanding the scope of the instruction or how I would suffer for its fulfillment."



- St. Francis, Transforming Grace

175 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 2, 2014

About the author

Kathryn Ann Clarke is an American writer living in Ireland, known for her young adult fiction and her work in domestic violence prevention, and also for her Catholic mystical writings published under the pseudonym "Anne, a lay apostle".

In September 2001, Clarke visited the town of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a site of alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary, and soon thereafter began to write messages which she has claimed are from Jesus, from the Virgin Mary, and from many other Catholic saints. Clarke stated she received these messages in prayer (as interior locutions).

In 2003 she began to publish them in ten books under the general title "Direction for Our Times as Given to 'Anne', a lay apostle", saying she was adopting a pseudonym to protect her family. The first four volumes were issued by CMJ Marian Publishers based in Chicago by May 2004. On October 15, 2004, "Anne" recorded the last message of the ten volumes, and several more volumes of the set were issued in December 2004. Volumes 5 and 8 were published in 2013.

Clarke also reported a new message for the world each month from December 2004 to August 2012.

Anne is a wife, mother of six, and a Secular Franciscan.