Pray for Us, Meg HunterKilmer
Pray for Us, Meg HunterKilmer
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Pray for Us
75 Saints Who Sinned, Suffered, and Struggled on Their Way to Holiness

Author: Meg Hunter-Kilmer

Narrator: Meg Hunter-Kilmer

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/12/2023

Synopsis

How is it possible that a chain-smoking socialist, a teenage video gamer, an opium addict, a satanic high priest, a disabled beggar, and a self-absorbed mean girl became saints?

Popular itinerant missionary Meg Hunter-Kilmer will stretch your preconceived notions of holiness by exploring the lesser-known lives of seventy-five extraordinary people whose human struggles and limitations reveal the power of God's grace.

Pray for Us isn't your ordinary saint book: Hunter-Kilmer highlights the sorrows, struggles, and idiosyncrasies of broken people who turned their lives around and dedicated themselves to God and his work. Through these edgy profiles, full of fresh and fascinating stories, she explores the universal call to holiness and how God can transform anyone—from grouchy theologians to bratty teenagers—into saints. You'll discover that anyone—even you—can become a saint if you trust in the Lord.

Hunter-Kilmer presents the unvarnished lives of the saints and holy people in a way that reveals the power of God's grace in their lives. Their stories—and especially their brokenness—are relatable to us all.

About Meg Hunter-Kilmer

Meg Hunter-Kilmer is a Catholic speaker, author, retreat leader, and itinerant missionary whose work appears regularly on Aleteia and on her blog, Held by His Pierced Hands.

Hunter-Kilmer is the author of Saints Around the World. She has written for Magnificat, Our Sunday Visitor, the Catechetical Review, and Take Up and Read. She has appeared on a variety of Catholic media, including CatholicTV, SiriusXM's The Catholic Channel, Relevant Radio, and Ave Maria Radio.

Hunter-Kilmer earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Notre Dame. She previously served as a teacher, youth minister, and campus minister.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on September 26, 2023

"Pray for Us: 75 Saints Who Sinned, Suffered, and Struggled on Their Way to Holiness" is a wonderfully unique collection of Saint stories. Many of these Saints and their stories are not as well known as some of the more famous Saints, but their stories are still fascinating and convicting. Meg Hunte......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on October 23, 2021

Whenever I pick up a book about the lives of the saints, I’m usually bracing myself for all the usual tropes. All those generic white girls with no personality and colonizing men presented completely uncritically. Glossed-over rape and glorified eating disorders. The list goes on. What a relief it wa......more

Goodreads review by Alexa Marie on January 09, 2022

I so appreciate the diversity represented here, not only in regards to race, gender, and ethnicity, but especially in the diversity of struggles and acts of love told through these stories. There is truly a saint for every occasion, every sorrow, and every joy you may experience, and if that’s not h......more

Goodreads review by Jess on February 02, 2022

Lovely and inspiring stories told with sensitivity and deep love for the saints and their God. I intended to read this in just a few sittings but these short and savory biographies demanded a reading in smaller segments.......more

Goodreads review by Kara on March 15, 2022

It is easy to get discouraged at times when thinking of attaining Sainthood--how could I, a sinner, be a St. Agnes, a St. Elizabeth of Hungary, or any of the other Saints most of us grew up hearing about? Enter "Pray for Us" by Meg Hunter-Kilmer. This book is filled with saints from contemporary tim......more

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