Love Song - an autobiographical memoir
- now also available as a Kindle eBook from Amazon
What's it about?
.As a seafarer wandering the world young Joe Coyle reads Plato's meditation on the nature of love and his whole world is changed. What to do about it? Marry the most beautiful girl he has ever met or devote himself to the service of others in the monastic Order of Friars Preachers? It's a hard choice, and only Joe can make it ......
A 21st Century REFORMATION of the Catholic Church
- available on
UK
Amazon & other online retailers (£3.50 - or equivalent in your currency)
(ISBN 9780955887833)
- also as Kindle eBook
Catholics are hurt, angry and distressed by horrific, systemic violence, sexual abuse and rape of children in Catholic Church institutions in America and Europe lasting for decades under Catholic Church leadership.
Is there a need for a modern REFORMATION within the Catholic Church? In this small booklet he author says Yes! and considers causes of abuse in the Church and in society. Read an extract
Brother Barney's Love Song - the Screenplay
- now available on Amazon
Probably only of interest to those who work in
the film industry, or to film buffs who are hooked on the whole process of
creating movies. This is the author's first piece of writing.
He says, "The experiences of beginning to understand the
nature of love - human and divine - were vividly lodged in my head, images that ran continually in my mind, and the most natural thing
in the world was to try to recreate them, so that people might share in
them directly.
I taught myself how to create a film script and tried to raise the money to
direct and produce it myself. At that time I thought that only I could create a movie
that would express the reality of my experiences, but I have since come to
appreciate that there are Directors who are amazingly sensitive to mood
and image, and much more knowledgeable about film creation!
So I have not given up hope
that I will find such a person. In fact, I have one Director in mind and will
approach him as soon as I have copies of the script to hand.
If you are not a film buff or do not work in the industry you
will find that the screenplay is a technical document. You may find it rather bare and
barren, though interesting. Better perhaps to read 'Love Song - a memoir',
the novel derived from the screenplay, which, contrary to my expectation, conveys the reality of my lived
experiences rather better than I anticipated. To
compare the two could be interesting (Good for my Independent Publisher economy!)
We will have to wait for the film to appear to see if it is
as good as the novel; always an interesting experience. Give me feedback if it
happens - or even just let me have a reaction to the novel.
Yours with best wishes,
Brother
Barney O.P. -
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- An Autobiographical Novel With A Difference: See Addendum:'Sex, Love, Marriage, Nullity & Divorce' - Including An Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI. [Paperback]
A fascinating insight into modern monastic and religious life. Raises big questions about the mystery of our creation - how we live - and die! ...
Stimulating! can religion be fun?
... Can it be taken seriously?
... Can we really believe in a loving, kindly God - considering the defective world we live in? - The author has been a daily Massgoer for more than 50 years but he accuses the leaders of his church for not facing up to certain realities: ...
'Bro. Barney O.P.' was originally written as a screenplay.
It was only after eighteen years of failing to persuade film makers or raise
the required cash that I decided to re-write the screenplay as a novel.. I am,
as I confess throughout the book, a slow learner.
I must come clean. 'Bro. Barney' could well have been a written as a
straightforward autobiography, but as it was already a screenplay I found it
easier to continue to tell the story as if I were writing about someone other
than myself.
This meant that I could be objective, and the use of an alter ego in the form
of Joe Coyle means that I can permit modest creative licence - telling the
truth but embellishing certain events and altering the names of people who
might not relish an invasion of privacy.
Here and there I have used real names, of people I trust not to be embarrassed
about association with me - plus some who have died and cannot be embarrassed,
for they have explained themselves to the living Lord.
The story is 90% factual - and 100% true!
The O'Shea family motif is Vincit Veritas - truth conquers - and I bless the
unknown ancestor who created it, for in great or small things truth is vital.
Without it life becomes even more perilous.
So believe me, all the central events I relate actually took place, especially
those that seem strange and inexplicable.
Thank you for reading my book - if you do - and if you don't I'm sure God will
forgive you - even if I don't!
- Ah, come on! That was a joke!
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As I realised that this book was actually two books - the autobiograpical Memoir has since been published as "Brother Barney's Love Song"
-and the theological addendum has been revised and will be published at the start of 2012 under the title "The Catholic Church in the 21st Century - a Critical Analysis"
About the Author
The Catholic Church in the 21st Century - a Critical Analysis
TO BE PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2012
Commissioned by Jesus 2,000 years ago, the Catholic
Church is under scrutiny as never before.
Just what are it's teachings and how are they expressed?