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The Catching Force arose from a chance meeting in the tropical paradise of Goa between author Cosima Somerset, a British woman, and Catholic priest Father Joe Pereira, who ministers to alcoholics and other addicts.
For the next ten years, Cosima follows Father Joe around the world, keeping a highly personal diary of his astonishing healing powers through yoga, while gradually winning his trust and learning of his own remarkable story.
Father Joe travels from a small town in India to the slums of Calcutta and Mumbai to work with Mother Teresa.
Following her death, he carries on her work among alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes and thieves. But The Catching Force is more than a biography about a man of faith and his journey. Above all, it is a story of hope, of a healing dynamic arising out of defeat and humiliation; the catching force of unconditional love that enables Father Joe to heal pain through the gift of yoga and replace desperation with a new life of freedom and happiness.
Cosima Somerset’s first book is a story of extraordinary depth, power and perception about one man’s love of humanity that guides him through a cruel, unequal and often dangerous world, interwoven with Cosima’s own challenges with debilitating depression.
The Catching Force arose from a chance meeting in the tropical paradise of Goa between author Cosima Somerset, a British woman, and Catholic priest Father Joe Pereira, who ministers to alcoholics and other addicts.
For the next ten years, Cosima follows Father Joe around the world, keeping a highly personal diary of his astonishing healing powers through yoga, while gradually winning his trust and learning of his own remarkable story.
Father Joe travels from a small town in India to the slums of Calcutta and Mumbai to work with Mother Teresa.
Following her death, he carries on her work among alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes and thieves. But The Catching Force is more than a biography about a man of faith and his journey. Above all, it is a story of hope, of a healing dynamic arising out of defeat and humiliation; the catching force of unconditional love that enables Father Joe to heal pain through the gift of yoga and replace desperation with a new life of freedom and happiness.
Cosima Somerset’s first book is a story of extraordinary depth, power and perception about one man’s love of humanity that guides him through a cruel, unequal and often dangerous world, interwoven with Cosima’s own challenges with debilitating depression.