Alfred Garrotto
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Normand Thomas:
Normand: Thank you for following me on Goodreads. You are a prolific writer, I see. Amazing! I notice that we both write along the same line of spirituality. I am in the third book of my Les Miserables trilogy: Inspector Javert: At the gates of Hell. The 2nd book is out: Bishop Myriel: In His Own Words. Happy Easter Season!! I have to ask a question, so where do you find time in your ministry to write?
Normand Thomas
Hi Alfred
Like I wrote in one of the questions, the Lord gave me a simple way to write everything through meditating Mass texts for each homily. So, a weekly homily in the end could take around 7 minutes to write. That gave me the remaining of the day to live out the ministry. Which, I found, was an advantage.
Some days, with a little more time, it went up to 7 homilies, but never more than that. I was ahead 3 months, knowing that the Holy Spirit can talk to us in three months if he can talk to us with texts as old as 4000 years. :) Three months in advance, I've never felt pressured to write nor pressured to perform. So it was like composing songs / a teaching / studying / praying, all at the same time.
After 4 years of writing homilies, I had 1600 pages. So I've started doing like a puzzle, everytime I had some time, and placed the same ideas together. Which went really well since everything was written. I've came up with 16 books. The writing method was great. and really down to earth books came out of this. English might be a little wobbly, sometimes, but the subjects are clear.
And I've had the Lords graces to fulfill the task. When I was on vacation, I'd stay one month in the Seminary to work out the most difficult parts of gathering all the texts together. I kept the easy parts while in ministry.
I'm doing the same, plus experience, for the next 3 books.
Thanks! Happy Easter season to you also!
God bless!
Like I wrote in one of the questions, the Lord gave me a simple way to write everything through meditating Mass texts for each homily. So, a weekly homily in the end could take around 7 minutes to write. That gave me the remaining of the day to live out the ministry. Which, I found, was an advantage.
Some days, with a little more time, it went up to 7 homilies, but never more than that. I was ahead 3 months, knowing that the Holy Spirit can talk to us in three months if he can talk to us with texts as old as 4000 years. :) Three months in advance, I've never felt pressured to write nor pressured to perform. So it was like composing songs / a teaching / studying / praying, all at the same time.
After 4 years of writing homilies, I had 1600 pages. So I've started doing like a puzzle, everytime I had some time, and placed the same ideas together. Which went really well since everything was written. I've came up with 16 books. The writing method was great. and really down to earth books came out of this. English might be a little wobbly, sometimes, but the subjects are clear.
And I've had the Lords graces to fulfill the task. When I was on vacation, I'd stay one month in the Seminary to work out the most difficult parts of gathering all the texts together. I kept the easy parts while in ministry.
I'm doing the same, plus experience, for the next 3 books.
Thanks! Happy Easter season to you also!
God bless!
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