Review by Jonimac -- Can I Be Frank? by Rob Wyatt

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[Following is a volunteer review of "Can I Be Frank?" by Rob Wyatt.]

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4 out of 4 stars

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Can I Be Frank? by Rob Wyatt 14 August, 2017 When Frank Gold was going over career avenues with his guidance counselor he wasn’t even banking on making it to Heaven, to be perfectly honest. He actually said,”

I don’t expect Purgatory would be so bad, at least there’d be the hope things might get better eventually.”

While they were pondering his future vocation, the solution occurred to him during Mass the next Sunday. If he became a priest he would not have any competition; he would have job security, board and lodging, including decent working hours and no heavy lifting. He had been an altar server and knew the prayers in English and Latin. Why couldn’t he become a priest? So after several years in seminary and numerous hefty insurance claims, Father Sebastian had to file over mishaps Frank had in training, he had his ordination papers in hand. Frank also had a job offer and was on a plane leaving England headed for St. Francis of Assisi diocese in south Florida where he had taken a post as their new priest.

After a few run ins with the authorities at Orlando International Airport, his mentor in Florida, Father William dropped Frank off with Martha Moro at the parish. Martha was the real person who ran the church as housekeeper and secretary and was to provide Frank with invaluable help adjusting to his new position. Father Frank makes it through the first Mass, even with a hangover and thanks God because he made it without an ambulance or submitting an insurance claim. That is just the beginning of the quirky characters and unexpected problems Frank encounters. The author will have you laughing out loud all through this book.

Starting off Father Frank butts heads with the church’s largest contributor by refusing a bribe and ends up alienating his Bishop and Vicar. He almost drowns in his failures but ends up filling the church with a host of new parishioners. He conforms an atheist doctor, 50 or more immigrant workers, and a Baptist judge plus a bunch of new church goers. He also teaches the Bishop and the Vicar that love for your fellow man comes before the politics of the Catholic Church.

If you love fictional comedy, I’m not afraid to rank this up with Fannie Flagg’s and Rick Gregg’s books. If you are looking for a book that will cheer you up this is the book to read. In this world today when you make people laugh on every page, it is a God given talent from above. Actually, I thought the author was a priest considering how the book was set up but I found out he was a choir boy in his home church when he was growing up in Canterbury, England. I loved reading this book and look forward to reading the sequel.

I rated the book 4 out of 4 and I wish I could give it more. It has a few words that I believe are English words not commonly spelled this way in the U.S., but they do not take away from this wonderful enlightening story.

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