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Candles in the Dark: The Fr. Ho Lung Biography
Candles in the Dark The Fr Ho Lung Biography Author:Joseph Pearce Father Richard Ho Lung poet, teacher, mystic, and musician, is the founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, one of the fastest-growing religious orders in the world. — As a young man Fr. Ho Lung was known as the reggae priest. His hit single rocketed to the top of the Jamaican charts. His live musical performances won rave reviews. He and his ban... more »d: Father Ho Lung and Friends, toured the world. In his spare time he taught literature at the University of the West Indies.
Yet in the midst of these successes and accomplishments, Fr. Ho Lung felt a persistent call to something more. In 1980, he left the academy and music halls to embrace a new life of radical poverty and to give himself unconditionally to the destitute and downtrodden as the founder of the Missionaries of the Poor (MOP).
In Candles in the Dark: The Authorized Biography of Fr. Richard Ho Lung and the Missionaries of the Poor, Joseph Pearce, the preeminent Catholic biographer of our time, introduces the world to Fr. Ho Lung and the more than 500 brothers who make up the MOP.
Pearce takes us from his childhood in Jamaica, the son of impoverished Chinese immigrants, to his education and ordination as a Jesuit priest. He shows us the glamour of Fr. Ho Lung's life as a celebrity musician, and the deadly danger of missionary work in Kingston s grittiest ghettos. He tells the story of one who has ascended the heights of worldly success, descended into the depths of suffering and discovered a joy there that none can take away.
In the tradition of Malcolm Muggeridge s classic documentary of Mother Teresa,Something Beautiful for God,Candles in the Dark takes us to a place of unimaginable poverty...and shows us the joy that comes from sacrifice, the irresistible attractiveness of holiness, and the power of God still at work in the world today.« less