Christ Is Calling You: A Course in Catacomb Pastorship

By George Calciu and Fr. George Calciu

"The time has come, young man, for you to hear a voice which has been calling you..." With these words, Fr. George Calciu began a series of seven weekly homilies to the youth of communist Romania in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887904522
• ISBN13: 9781887904520
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: St Herman Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Christ

Great book! Father Calciu was a true Christian, who suffered mental and physical torture under the Communists, but he stood by his principles. His open revolt against destroying churches in Bucharest and using the land for building taverns and stores made his a hero.

With gratitude to a wise and loving Priest...

...for sharing his story of unbelievable personal courage in the face of the godless and suffocating evil of communism in Romania, and for being a wise and loving and uncompromisingly honest Shepard to his congregation in the United States. In "Christ is Calling You" one learns the meaning of John 15:13: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." One hopes and prays that one would have had the courage to belong to the group of young Romanian seminarians and students who escorted Father George home to protect him from the "Securitate" during his 1978 Lenten homilies.