A Christian painter explains his vocation
As a teenager I was inspired and helped to pray by a book called Prayers of Life by Fr Michel Quoist. This, his first and most popular book, completed at the age of 33, made him a sort of Henri Nouwen of his day.
Quoist’s father died when he was only 14 and he had to go out to work, and so became involved in the Young Christian Workers movement, eventually embracing a priestly vocation. For all of his life he remained involved in Catholic Action and social issues, becoming parish priest in a poor quarter of Le Havre.
