Margaret's First Holy Week

By Jon M. Sweeney and Roy DeLeon

The story of Margaret and her friend the Pope continues with Book 3 in The Pope’s Cat series.
 
This adventure has Margaret experiencing the prayers, penitence, liturgy, and excitement of Holy Week in the Vatican and Rome—from the joy of Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square, to foot-washing in a Roman prison, the solemnity of Good Friday, and the expectation of Easter.
 
She learns about Jesus and the meaning of his Passion, visits important new places such as The Sistine Chapel, where she seems to pray beside the Pope, and the Roman Colosseum, where she learns that many early Christians were martyrs for their faith. Margaret's friends, the Swiss Guards, are watching over her, and she manages to eat (she still loves to eat!) some interesting foods, even though it's Holy Week. Oh yes, and she sleeps a lot.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paraclete Press
• Release date: Feb 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781640602830

Jon M. Sweeney

Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author who has been interviewed in the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, and on television at CBS Saturday Morning. His book, The Pope Who Quit, (Doubleday/Image) was optioned by HBO. He is also author of forty other books on spirituality, mysticism, and religion, including Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart, with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads), the biography Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Catechist, Saint (Liturgical Press), and Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices (St. Martin’s Essentials and Penguin Random House Audio, 2021). His bookish reputation is nothing new. In 2014, Publishers Weekly featured Jon in an interview titled, “A Life in Books and On the Move.” He began the 1990s as a theological bookseller in Cambridge, and ended the decade founding a multifaith publishing house, SkyLight Paths Publishing, in Vermont. He’s worked in books and publishing ever since. Today he writes, reviews, edits, and recommends books, speaks regularly at literary and religious conferences, is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and is active on social media (Twitter @jonmsweeney; Facebook jonmsweeney). Sweeney lives in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee.

Book preview

Margaret’s

First

Holy Week

The story of a stray that was born on the Via della Conciliazione in Rome and is adopted by the Pope, and how she then runs the Vatican from museum to floorboard. For ages six and up.

THE POPE’S CAT SERIES

This volume is preceded by

The Pope’s Cat

Margaret’s Night in St. Peter’s (A Christmas Story)

Coming next

Margaret and the Pope Go to Assisi

Margaret’s

First

Holy Week

JON M. SWEENEY

Illustrated by ROY DELEON

2019 First Printing

Margaret’s First Holy Week

Text copyright © 2019 Jon M. Sweeney

Illustrations copyright © 2019

by Roy DeLeon

ISBN 978-1-61261-937-8

This is a work of fiction. The author has used the real titles of Pope and Holy Father in the sense in which they are normally understood: for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church who resides in Vatican City; but no historical Pope or Holy Father, past or present, is intended.

The quotation from John 13:14–15 on page 25 is taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms © 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and is used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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