Below is an invite to participate in a Zoom book review with Fr. Stephen Sinari who has authored 3 books that have received positive reviews from Catholic World report.  If anyone is interested, please see someone on the Council and they can get you contact information to obtain Zoom participation credentials

Zoom With Father Naum - Among Best Books Says Catholic World Report
 
 
Father, Brothers & Sisters,
 
Looking for a unique Parish Activity?
 
Father Stephen Siniari, author
of a 3 volume collection of 
Orthodox short stories
published by Ancient Faith Media
will host a one hour Zoom discussion
for groups in your parish without charge.
 
Email now to reserve a date and time
that works for you and your parish groups.
 
Real life faith in action
Gritty and raw
Big In Heaven
Secret Turning
Bread From Home
 
Not for the faint of heart
An artfully crafted collection
Featuring Father Naum
An ordinary priest
Serving God's extraordinary people
In the working-class Philly Fishtown parish of
Saint Alexander the Whirling Dervish
Real-life people immersed together 
In the day-to day struggle 
To see in one another & in all creation
An icon of God's love
 
First Things - America's foremost journal of religion and public life says:
Big in Heaven is religious fiction as it should be: 
compelling, immensely readable stories 
that are challenging and spiritually eye-opening. 
Both poignant and profound...
 
Englewood Reviews, 
a major Protestant book review site, 
called Big in Heaven,
“…A humble incarnation of broken beauty.”
 
Catholic World Report Lists 
Big In Heaven 
Among the Best Books of 2021
 
Rhonda Ortiz - Catholic World Report:
Big in Heaven by Stephen Siniari (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2020) is a collection of short stories about Saint Alexander the Whirling Dervish Orthodox Church, a fictional parish in a gritty working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Through Fr. Naum, the humble and perceptive parish priest, we enter into the complex lives of Saint Alexander’s motley and often eccentric parishioners and neighbors.
Orthodox Short Stories nominated for the 
Pen/American Robert W. Bingham Prize 
for a Debut Short Story Collection
 
About the Author
Father Stephen N. Siniari is a retired priest of the Albanian Archdiocese. During almost 40 years in ministry, Fr. Stephen served parishes in New England and the Philadelphia/South Jersey area while working full time as a street outreach worker in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, & Camden, NJ, serving homeless, at-risk, and trafficked teens with the international Roman Catholic Agency, Covenant House. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he currently lives on the Florida Gulf Coast with Margot, his wife of more than 40 years.