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Rekindle the Gift of God: A Handbook for Priestly Life By Roch Kereszty, OCist, Ignatius, 2021, 247 pp., ISBN 978-1-62164405-7, $17.95 (paper).
Fr. Roch Kereszty, a Hungarianborn priest and spiritual director at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas, offers both practical advice and theological reflections on numerous subjects relevant to the lives of Catholic priests in this short but helpful handbook on the priestly life. Drawing on his sixty years of experience as a Catholic priest, Kereszty combines concise theological explanations with the insights of hard-won experience to create a guide of both timeless and validly contemporary wisdom. Beginning with the matter of vocational discernment addressed in the first chapter, Kereszty considers subjects like the nature of the priesthood, the vital importance of prayer in the life of a priest, the...