From Dereliction to a Life of Luminous Love - Rita Simmonds - New York Encounter 2020

The New York Encounter

A conversation about the journey of the late-Frank Simmonds with Rita A. Simmonds, wife and author of Convicted by Mercy: The Journey of Frank Simmonds from the Streets to Sanctity, and Lawrence E. Sullivan, professor emeritus of theology and comparative world religions, University of Notre Dame

Professor Sullivan called Frank's story “a parable for our age” plagued by racism, drug addiction, and an epidemic of suicides where Frank Simmonds comes like the figure of Virgil in Dante’s Divine Comedy – he walks through that Inferno with us, and emerges on the other side to ascend to a marvelous light, turning back to tell us: “Suffering has meaning. Come and see!”

This event is sponsored by Human Adventure Books.