{"id":1425,"date":"2023-01-26T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:03:26","slug":"jim-towey-author-of-to-love-and-be-loved-personal-portrait-of-mother-teresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/jim-towey-author-of-to-love-and-be-loved-personal-portrait-of-mother-teresa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Towey Author of &#8220;To Love and Be Loved: Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Towey Author of &quot;To Love and Be Loved: Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jl48Hghp0EQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Speaking with Jim Towey<\/h3>\n<p>All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome a distinguished guest, Mr. Jim Towey.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Towey was a trusted advisor and personal friend of Mother Teresa of Calcutta for twelve years and did the first reading at her Mass of Canonization in Saint Peter\u2019s Square. He headed the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under George W. Bush and served on his senior staff.<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s career spans the presidency of two Catholic colleges for thirteen years, a seven-year stint as a US Senate staffer, and the leadership of Florida\u2019s 40,000-employee health and human services agency. In 1996, with Mother Teresa\u2019s encouragement, he founded the nonprofit advocacy organization Aging with Dignity and created the Five Wishes advance directive, which has sold over 40 million copies and is used in all fifty states.<\/p>\n<p>Towey met his wife, Mary, in Mother Teresa\u2019s Washington, DC, AIDS home, and they have five children and three grandchildren. He continues to provide pro bono legal services for the Missionaries of Charity. His book, To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa, was published by Simon and Schuster in September 2022.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What are they saying about &#8220;To Love and Be Loved: A personal portrait of Mother Teresa?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim Towey\u2019s To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa is the loveliest book I\u2019ve read in recent months, rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity and including one of the Five Funniest Catholic Stories Ever.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 George Weigel, First Things<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTowey recounts the hours Mother Teresa spent daily in deep prayer as well as the cheerfulness and compassion with which she served people in crushing poverty&#8230;his retelling of his beloved friend\u2019s persistent dark night of the soul makes the reader want to comfort her&#8230;Readers familiar with Mother Teresa\u2019s biography will find fresh meaning in Towey\u2019s account of her impact on his spiritual journey. Those unfamiliar with her life story will appreciate his accessible and gripping introduction.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 America Jesuit Review, America Magazine<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa is a powerful &#8220;white pill,&#8221; masterfully weaving together vignettes from Towey\u2019s own life with the arc of the Albanian nun pursuing the will of God.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Nora Kenny, The Washington Free Beacon<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTowey portrays Mother Teresa in trademark sandals and sari, and also as a human who experienced loneliness, wrestled with doubts, and loved sweets\u2026This personal portrait is by turns autobiographical, biographical, and devotional. Especially moving are the stories of Mother Teresa\u2019s vivid calling through a vision, her dark night of the soul, and her final decline.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Booklist<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough Towey\u2019s personal, transformative relationship with Mother Teresa forms the central theme, he also offers a fascinating inside look into Mother Teresa\u2019s daily life\u2026Inspiring and joyful.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Kirkus Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with Jim Towey All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome a distinguished guest, Mr. Jim Towey. Jim Towey was a trusted advisor and personal friend of Mother Teresa of Calcutta for twelve years and did the first reading at her Mass of Canonization in Saint Peter\u2019s Square. He headed the White House Office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhomecarematters.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}