ALL FOR HER - AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FR. PATRICK PEYTON

ALL FOR HER - AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FR. PATRICK PEYTON
This edition of Fr. Peyton’s autobiography — originally published in 1967 and reissued in a revised edition in 1997 — includes black-and-white photos and a new foreword by Holy Cross Family Ministries president Fr. Willy Raymond, C.S.C., reflecting on Fr. Peyton’s legacy as a saint for family prayer and his cause for canonization.

Probably best known for the inspirational phrases “the family that prays together stays together” and “a world at prayer is a world at peace” — Fr. Peyton encouraged family prayer and devotion to the Rosary throughout his ministry. In his autobiography, the Rosary Priest reflects on his journey from a farm boy in Western Ireland to one of the most effective missionaries of the modern age.

In All for Her, Fr. Peyton describes his travels to America, hoping to become a millionaire and instead finding work as a janitor in the Scranton cathedral, where he realized the call to the priesthood. In 1929, he entered the seminary, but after years of study and training he was diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis and conventional treatments at the time were not working. He prayed to the Virgin Mary and his health quickly began to improve. In gratitude he committed his vocation to promote devotion to the Blessed Mother and the Rosary. On the day of his ordination he said,

“I gave my heart and soul in love to Mary. I promised her all the merit of my priesthood until death. The merit and glory of every action I would ever perform would be hers and hers alone.”