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Father Ed Dowling: Bill Wilson's Sponsor

Father Ed Dowling: Bill Wilson's Sponsor

Chesnut, Glenn F.

Paperback

Historical Figures

Publisher Price: $35.95

ISBN10: 1491770856
ISBN13: 9781491770856
Publisher: Iuniverse Inc
Published: Jul 17 2015
Pages: 650
Weight: 2.07
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The story of Father Ed Dowling, S.J., the Jesuit priest who served for twenty years as sponsor and spiritual guide to Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

An icy evening in December 1940 saw the first meeting of two extraordinary spiritual leaders. Father Ed said that the graces he received from meeting Bill Wilson were as great as those he had received from his ordination as a priest, and Bill in turn described encountering the Jesuit as being like a second conversion experience, where he could feel the transcendent presence of God filling the entire room with grace. The good priest taught Wilson about St. Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises, about the eternal battle between good and evil which the Spanish saint described in that book, and explained the Jesuit understanding of the way we can use our deepest emotions to receive guidance from God while serving on that battlefield. The co-founder of the twelve step movement in turn supplied Father Ed with some of the most valuable tools he possessed for carrying out small group therapy on a wide range of different kinds of troubled people.

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