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Time to Make Some Movies!!!!
Oh, man! When will these be made into motion pictures??!! I fell in love with the characters -- and I pray that my children, as adults, will have friends like these characters -- people who put Christ at the center of their lives, and raise each other up, challenge each other! SO realistic and mesmerizing! God bless everyone who worked to make these books available to read and inspire us. Many blessings on your ministry!
- Kristine Schmitz from Illinois, USA
Hope for Lost Catholics
I read Pierced By A Sword in 1998, when I was reverting from being a lost Catholic to a Serious Catholic. My believe system had been so far off the mark, that I took Pascal's wager for three years, and I read Pierced By A Sword in the spring of 1998, 1999, and 2000. I don't know where I would be today if I hadn't read this book. There is one conversation in a Pizza Restaurant where a young lady looks around the table and meditates on the "layers of love" there. And Our Blessed Mother... the line "Mary is like the tide, you don't see the tide come in, but come back in five hours, and it is High Tide". I am now praying for the "High Tide", and I know it will arrive in due time.
- Joan from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
The Time For Action
I read all three books, but Pierced By A Sword especially helped me in my discernment process. In large part thanks to your book(s), I will be entering the seminary next fall. When I told my close friend/youth minister, he quoted the exact line that I had been meditating on to help me finish my decision, and to go on with it: "Now is not the time for talk, now is the time for action."
- Brandon from Ohio
Awesome
I have read all three of Bud's books. They are awesome, wish he would write more. They all touched my heart. Saw to it that my daughter and daughter-in-law got the books also. Now my daughter is wanting to become a Catholic! Thank you sweet Jesus. You hear my prayers.
- Pat from Texas
All three books a gift.
I first read House of Gold some years ago. It reawakened a need for me to explore my Catholic roots. I have read it twice since and it is as powerful a read now as it was then. All Catholics should read this book, especially now in view of world events and the threat to our civilization. It is a very prescient novel. I love my Lord, Mary and the Church more than I ever have. Thank you!
- Keith from Marlton, New Jersey
Best books for a Catholic Family to read!
This was the first book I read, fell in love with Mary, Our Mother all over again! What a powerful series! These books should be required reading for Catholic high schoolers, and soon to be marrieds! Thank you!
- Terry from Philadelphia,Pa
A Book That Lives
Pierced By A Sword is more than words on paper. For me, it has been the opening of a door to my faith, spirituality, and relationship with Mary. Too much time had passed with my eyes closed and my heart locked. Thank you so much!
- Mariza from Atwater, CA
Explains Catholicism with out theology
I enjoyed all three of these books. As a non-Catholic it helped me see what the Roman Catholic Church is all about in an easy to understand format. The stories where well writen, I loved them. Now I have no excuse for fearing my Catholic friends.
- A Visitor from
"Everyday" Catholics
I read all of the books. I could not put them down. I enjoyed them so much because they showed how "everyday" Catholics can live in society and be true to the Faith. Most of us wonder how to live in the world but not be of the world. In a non-threatening way these books show you how. Thaks for helping me live my Faith!
- Heather B. from Baltimore, MD
Amazing... Glad to have Catholic fiction around!
I've read all three Saint Jude Media books. I loved every single one of them. "Conceived Without Sin" is my favorite. I can't wait to have my soon-to-be husband read it! (May 8, 2004 is the wedding date). Wonderful work, by a wonderful author. Glad to have Catholic fiction around! Write more!
- Bethany from Texas
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