LEND ME YOUR HANDS
Fides, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xii, 235pp. 12mo, owner's inscription to FPEP, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise; DJ tips just a bit worn with some faint toning, crisp and bright otherwise with price intact, now wrapped in mylar. Summons a 'Lay Apostolate' to an urgent task of social and spiritual engagement in local parishes and abroad, with traditional and scriptural grounds, eschatological goals, and current examples of grass roots community organizing in the church. Meyer was one of the four founding priests of the Maryknoll Society, a Catholic Missionary Order devoted to service and solidarity among the most impoverished and marginalized people around the world. He spent three decades in China, including the entirety of WWII in a Hong Kong prison camp where he refused a Japanese offer of repatriation to the US in order to continue providing medical care to fellow prisoners. NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE. Item #509815
Price: $60.00