OLP Book Club

Please join us for one of OLP's reading and discussion groups! We typically break our discussion of a book into several sessions. Discussions are laid back and organized in such a way that, even if you aren't up on the reading, you'll still be able to participate. Sessions are also "come and go," so even if you miss a week or two, you're still welcome to join when you can.

Our Next Book - Fr. Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace
Thursday, September 14 and Thursday, September 21, 2023 @ 6pm

Publisher's Description: We live in a day and age characterized by an extraordinary amount of agitation and lack of peace. This tendency manifests itself in our spiritual as well as our secular life. In our search for God and holiness, in our service to our neighbor, a kind of restlessness and anxiety take the place of the confidence and peace which ought to be ours.

What must we do to overcome the moments of fear and distress which assail us all too often in our lives? How can we learn to place all our confidence in God and abandon ourselves into his loving care? This is what is taught in this simple, yet profound little treatise on peace of heart. Taking concrete examples from our everyday life, the author invites us to respond in a Gospel fashion to the upsetting situations we must all confront. Since peace of heart is a pure gift of God, it is something we should seek, pursue and ask him for without cease. 

Father Jacques Philippe is a “Shepherd” in the Communité du Lion de Juda in Rome. A priest since 1985, he regularly preaches retreats in France and abroad.

Previous book studies can be viewed below.