The Frassati Field Guide

“This resource by Bobby Angel offers Frassati as your retreat leader, with his life and virtues as your inspiration. Read and be encouraged to ascend into the adventure where Christ is calling you!”

“This book moved me! Thank God for the gift of the saints, especially St. Pier Giorgio Frassati! This book wonderfully explores our universal call to holiness and highlights the examples of men and women who were heroic in their virtue yet completely ordinary in their daily lives. Frassati is a perfect example of this everyday faithfulness, and I now consider him a dear friend and role model in Christ. I can’t wait to share this book with everyone I know!”

“It is a rare thing to have a book that, literally, invites you to ‘come outside’ to read it. It’s an invitation to an adventure. Most books suggest that we sit down, indoors, to digest them—we think of a library, a lamp, or an air conditioner. This refreshing invitation, drawn from the life and example of Pier Giorgio Frassati, is a field guide for anyone who chooses to embark on an adventure toward virtue. Think of a backpack, a log to sit on, water from a stream, sunshine and shade and moonlight. It is call to leave comfort behind and follow a beloved saint on his journey toward heaven.”

“At a superficial glance, Pier Giorgio Frassati’s lifestyle, that of a modern young man who was full of life, does not present anything out of the ordinary. This, however, is the originality of his virtue, which invites us to reflect upon it and impels us to imitate it. In him faith and daily events are harmoniously fused, so that adherence to the Gospel is translated into loving care for the poor and the needy in a continual crescendo until the very last days of the sickness which led to his death. His love for beauty and art, his passion for sports and mountains, his attention to society’s problems did not inhibit his constant relationship with the Absolute. Entirely immersed in the mystery of God and totally dedicated to the constant service of his neighbor: thus we can sum up his earthly life!”