Letters From Pleasant Street

by Murray Bodo

Life on Pleasant Street is a mixture of the simple and the beautiful, the ugly and the hard. And it teaches you. Bestselling poet and author Father Murray Bodo here uses the Pleasant Street setting -his home in Cincinnati -to teach us a lot about inner-city life. And along the way he teaches us even more about himself...and ourselves. Poverty, relationships, writing, celibacy, Francis, cooking, wasting time, old age, patience, praying, living simply are some of the topics of these brillant "letters." W are all moved to deeper understanding for having received them from this sensitive writer.

118 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

"Those are the two magnetic poles of my life: books and the Franciscan Priesthood. The glue that holds them together is Saint Francis of Assisi himself. From the time I was thirteen years old and read Sophie Jewett's God's Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Francis has been a major inspiration of my life. I became a Franciscan in 1955; I've written about him, prayed for his intercession, studied him, taught his life and spirituality and for the last 34 years led pilgrimages to Assisi " - Murray Bodo

Reviews

[gil · Rating 3 out of 5]

in my heart, this collection would be five stars, but i must rate it three. it’s nice how murray figures himself and his writing out through the act of writing. i felt throughout that i had something to learn from this collection, and that it had something to learn from the reader. on purpose, it hides nothing. at the same time, it tends towards musings more than anything else, and is generally sophomoric (often part of its charm). he wants to understand and many times gets caught up in writing about the wanting to rather than the understanding itself.