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Our Daily Bread - From Argos to the Altar - a Priest's Story (Hardcover)
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Our Daily Bread - From Argos to the Altar - a Priest's Story (Hardcover)
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A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account
of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father
Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling
while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as
a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche
Mode. But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly
recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in dire
need of help. Burnley is typical of many towns across Britain: a
place of run-down council estates, severe poverty litter, crime and
drugs, but also a place where the sacred sits alongside the secular
in an intimate and personal way. And so it was that he found
himself running a food bank from a car park, helping the desperate
amid his flock as the pandemic raged. Fr Alex's down-to-earth style
of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and
class at a time when the divide between rich and poor is widening
cataclysmically. But amid the tragedy, addiction, appalling loss,
illness and neglect, there also lies hope, joy and moments of
comedy. Our Daily Bread is as much the story of the rich cast of
characters that cross the threshold of any church as it is our
vicar's. Through them it shows the continued relevance of the
church for those in peril: the poor and the marginalised. This
heartfelt and moving book seeks to give a voice to the voiceless,
charting the tragedy and pain, humour and hope which are
ever-present in his community. It is ultimately about modern
poverty - and how we all can, and should, espouse Christian virtues
of love, kindness, tolerance.
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