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A former Priest attempts to resurrect his family, his mother, Sylvia; and her parents, Conrad and Alice Mae. He embarked on a 30-year journey; the results of unresolved trauma—the loss of his family. A lament and the defeat of his ministering in the Catholic Church. Years of wanderlust sent him to the brink; loving God, then disliking God with; Great malice. The raw truth of the aftershock of loss, regret and deep remorse; spirals and turns that lead him back to his faith. A teenager watched sister death fall upon his family three times from 1987 to 1989. He blamed God for his struggles, beginning in his home town in Torrington, CT only to discover that; God was his salvation. Through years of debauchery, alcoholism, drug addiction with the thought of resurrecting the dead. The painful loss of family and faith. His family prayed for a miracle, to spare their mother, so that family didn’t have to go through the ministry of death again. Sylvia, was a graced woman who had her own spirituality; none of which she appeared to have shared with him but he observed externally the calmness of her presence, and the actions she performed in and around the house that demonstrated her love for life and her family.
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Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 149 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Sep 28, 2021)
ISBN10: 1977244513
ISBN13: 9781977244512
Genre: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
Raymond Tucker Cordani, resides in Lansing, Michigan. Formerly from Torrington Connecticut, this is his first book. Raymond obtained an undergraduate degree in Theater and English from Keene State College, NH. Further, to obtain an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts which led him on the journey of writing and a career in journalism. Raymond has spent a lifetime working towards healing through pain, grief and finding peace with loss. After a divorce, he leaned on his local catholic parish to recognize his love for the church and discerned the option of becoming a Catholic Priest. Raymond, entered into the seminary in 2007 to obtain a Master in Divinity and became an ordained priest in 2011. To date Raymond is currently writing his next novel; in addition, challenged with an early onset of Alzheimer’s Disease, at 50 years of age. Raymond is full of love and laughs! 
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