Whispers Behind Holy Days (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Byion Enterprises LLC, 2026

9798950468575

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Paperback. Whispers Behind Holy Days: The Stories Faith Keeps Quietly is a collection of clinical-realism verse about belief, doubt, ritual, inheritance, grief, community, and the quiet acts of care that survive even when people no longer agree about what anything means.The calendar calls them holidays. Holy days. Days off. Days of obligation. Days of memory. A square with a name. A service on the schedule. A school closed. A meal expected. A candle lit. A prayer repeated. But before anyone names the theology, someone is already standing in the kitchen with flour to her elbows, making the dish her mother made in another country, another house, another version of home. Someone is finding the good tablecloth. Someone is hiding in the car before walking into the building. Someone is explaining a fast to a coworker who meant well and still said it wrong. Someone is sitting in a pew and wondering whether staying is faith, habit, grief, fear, love, or all of them at once.Across thirty pieces organized into four acts - What We Were Raised In, What They See, What It Costs, and What We Keep - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the intimate, ordinary places where faith is lived more often than announced: the grandmother's prayer beads worn smooth by years of thumb and worry, the airport screening line where a name or garment suddenly becomes suspicious, the school hallway where a child learns which parts of home to explain and which parts to protect, the break room after a bad joke, the funeral kitchen buried in casseroles, the holiday table where old wounds sit down beside old recipes, and the eleven private minutes a coworker guards behind a truck seat without ever asking anyone to understand what happens there.This is not a collection that tries to prove belief true or disbelief false. It does not defend one faith by diminishing another. It does not ask the reader to admire every practice, excuse every institution, or condemn the people who leave what they inherited. Instead, Whispers Behind Holy Days holds the believer and the nonbeliever with equal dignity. It makes room for the person who doubts but still shows up, the person who left because the room was no longer safe, the person who converted and still feels one step behind everyone born into the language, the person who keeps the recipes but not the prayers, and the person who no longer knows what they believe but still knows how to bring food when someone dies.At the center of the volume, a funeral kitchen becomes a temporary truce. One woman believes everything happens for a reason. Another believes that sentence should never be said to a grieving person. They reach for the same dish. Their hands touch. They move the casserole together. Nobody wins. Nobody has to.Written with restraint, compassion, and emotional precision, this collection explores the hidden costs and quiet mercies of faith as it is actually lived: in families, workplaces, schools, hospitals, kitchens, sanctuaries, airports, cemeteries, and the private rooms people carry inside themselves. These poems are not sermons. They are witnesses. They listen for what faith keeps quietly - the customs that outlive certainty, the kindnesses that cross belief, the silences people protect, and the sacred labor of showing up for one another anyway.Whispers Behind Holy Days is for readers who have stayed, readers who have left, readers who are still deciding, and readers who know that sometimes the holiest thing in the room is not the argument anyone wins, but the dish someone carries to the grieving table. Through intimate verse, this collection explores the messy, human reality of devotion and doubt, finding sanctity not in dogma, but in the quiet ritua Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Whispers Behind Holy Days (Paperback)
Autor
Brian Edward McDermott
Verlag
Byion Enterprises LLC
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-13
9798950468575

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