Nov 28, 2009 / 10:09 am
A Mississippi priest has recently finished writing his first book, “His Instruments: If God Can Use Them, He Can Use Us.” The book, written by Father Sebastian Myladiyil, examines the lives of both good and bad biblical characters.
“I thought about this particular phrase, ‘If you see a good person, imitate him. If you see a bad person, examine your conscience.’ My effort is to look at a number of people in the Bible, both good and some questionable characters and how they can help us form those qualities in such a way that we can imitate their virtues and their faith or to look at some of those characters who led questionable lives to see how they can make us examine our own conscience,” Fr. Myladiyil said.
The book examines the lives of such biblical characters as Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel and John the Baptist, just to name a few.
“It examines 19 characters in the Old Testament and five characters in the New Testament,” he added.