Imperfect Love (This is a revised edition of "Perfect: a love story)
Book Details
Author(s)J.C. Soucier
ISBN / ASINB0049P1SH6
ISBN-13978B0049P1SH8
Sales Rank391,120
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
July 1969 - was a beautiful summer night. John Lennon and Oko Ono are hospitalized after a car crash; it was countdown time for the launching of Apollo 11…and, at a home in Lewiston, Maine, there was a party was going on.
The revision of “Perfect: a love story†is a mesmerizing memoir; a most riveting story that won’t give you the option to lay the book down until you’ve reached the final page. It tells of human weakness as it unfolds into a beautiful, intense, loving relationship that challenges the survival of forbidden passion.
Father Matthew is a Catholic priest serving in a parish in Lewiston, Maine. Judy Soucier is a twenty-six year old divorcee who lives in Brunswick and teaches in Lewiston. They met at that party that was going on in Lewiston on July of 69. Their elusive turned enticing connection eventually begins challenging the depth of commitment in Father’s vows of celibacy and obedience as they slowly and most discreetly slip into their very own secret world.
Father Matthew and Judy spend the next several years living a perfect double life, during which they share a very tender, intimate relationship. Mandatory celibacy and denying priests to marry are unforgiving directives; these imposing factors present ongoing challenges to this relationship. Ultimately, these orders would heavily influence the triumphs and tragedies, dramas and disappointments, passion and pain that unfold as this true epic is revealed. Eventually, the inevitable happens as the Judas of their time turns his discovery into an expose.
The Church needed to make this affair quietly disappear and because of telling circumstances, the urgency of immediate action was imperative . The strategy used by one of the world’s most powerful institutions engaged in conflict with what was thought to be, a far lesser power, was a mix of hypocrisy, intimidation, deceit and manipulation as they attempted to break the human spirit of this woman who had simply fallen in love with “one of theirsâ€. By so doing, Judy had violated the entrenched traditions and rituals of the Catholic Church, and that was punishable by whatever worked.
The revision of “Perfect: a love story†is a mesmerizing memoir; a most riveting story that won’t give you the option to lay the book down until you’ve reached the final page. It tells of human weakness as it unfolds into a beautiful, intense, loving relationship that challenges the survival of forbidden passion.
Father Matthew is a Catholic priest serving in a parish in Lewiston, Maine. Judy Soucier is a twenty-six year old divorcee who lives in Brunswick and teaches in Lewiston. They met at that party that was going on in Lewiston on July of 69. Their elusive turned enticing connection eventually begins challenging the depth of commitment in Father’s vows of celibacy and obedience as they slowly and most discreetly slip into their very own secret world.
Father Matthew and Judy spend the next several years living a perfect double life, during which they share a very tender, intimate relationship. Mandatory celibacy and denying priests to marry are unforgiving directives; these imposing factors present ongoing challenges to this relationship. Ultimately, these orders would heavily influence the triumphs and tragedies, dramas and disappointments, passion and pain that unfold as this true epic is revealed. Eventually, the inevitable happens as the Judas of their time turns his discovery into an expose.
The Church needed to make this affair quietly disappear and because of telling circumstances, the urgency of immediate action was imperative . The strategy used by one of the world’s most powerful institutions engaged in conflict with what was thought to be, a far lesser power, was a mix of hypocrisy, intimidation, deceit and manipulation as they attempted to break the human spirit of this woman who had simply fallen in love with “one of theirsâ€. By so doing, Judy had violated the entrenched traditions and rituals of the Catholic Church, and that was punishable by whatever worked.
