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  • Bread from Home

  • A Collection of Short Stories
  • By: Stephen Siniari
  • Narrated by: Stephen Siniari
  • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Bread from Home

By: Stephen Siniari
Narrated by: Stephen Siniari
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In this follow-up volume to Big in Heaven and Secret Turning, we see the people of Saint Alexander, the Whirling Dervish parish, and those around them at their worst and their best. We see God's grace shining into even the darkest corners of human life.

These stories will make you laugh, cry, examine your own conscience, and look at the people around you with a more compassionate eye.

©2023 Stephen Siniari (P)2023 Stephen Siniari
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God’s light and love shines in “Fish Town”

“Bread from Home” is a fictional but very believable collection of short stories of an orthodox priest named Fr. Naum of St. Alexander the Whirling Dervish Orthodox Church in an area of North Philadelphia called “Fish Town”. I was surprised at the harshness of many of the situations chronicled in “Bread from Home” since I have never read the other short story collections of Fr. Stephen Siniari. Even so, I was inspired by the beautiful, kind, Christ-like manner in which Fr. Naum handled, at times, and took care of, at other times, the people in these situations. Fr. Siniari’s reading of his stories was on point whether he was narrating with the accent of Philadephia’s “Fish Town” or that of an Albanian American. Father Siniari’s descriptions of people, places, and even food paint a picture so vivid, I felt like I was with those people, in those places and could smell and taste the food described.

At first, I really thought that I wouldn’t like this book and I didn’t really want to hear the sad, scary, depressing situations depicted. But as I pressed on, I soon discovered how much I enjoyed hearing about the humble and Holy Spirit-filled Father Naum. He brought God’s love to all the people in these sad, scary, depressing situations. He brought God’s light into the very dark places that too many people live in. Now, I can hardly wait to read the other collections of short stories that Fr. Siniari wrote.

Despite having a couple of unnecessary political comments here and there, I recommend this book of short stories for the reader who can bear the reality of what some priests experience in their calling and who want to experience how God’s love is shared to others through the gentle Father Naum.

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