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Going Forth: St. Alphonsus de Liguori and the Spirituality of Mission by Rev. Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R.
Going Forth: St. Alphonsus de Liguori and the Spirituality of Mission
by Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R.
This book completes Fr. Dennis J. Billy’s acclaimed trilogy on Alphonsian spirituality. Drawing on theology, history, and pastoral insight, Fr. Billy explores how mission flows from God’s own life of love and finds concrete expression in preaching, sacrament, community, and service to the poor and most abandoned. Rooted in tradition yet attentive to today’s Church, this work invites readers to rediscover missionary discipleship as a lived spirituality for our time.
Paperback: $12.95 | Audible: $14.99 | Kindle: $9.99
REVIEWS
Scala News. (February 2, 2026). “A Trilogy on Alphonsian Spirituality by Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R.” To read the review, click here.
TESTIMONIALS
“Dennis Billy’s Going Forth listens carefully to the Church’s memory, translating Alphonsian mission into a language of mercy, praxis, and hope, reminding us that evangelization begins not with strategy, but with surrender to God’s redeeming love alone.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fr. Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R., is Professor Emeritus of the history of moral theology and Christian spirituality at the Alphonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and served as The Robert F. Leavitt Distinguished Service Chair in Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. An American Redemptorist of the Baltimore Province, Fr. Billy has advanced degrees from Harvard University, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), and the Graduate Theological Foundation. The author of numerous books and articles on a variety of religious topics, he is also active in his order’s retreat apostolate and in the ministry of spiritual direction.
Rev. Vasyl Chepelskyy was born in Ukraine. He graduated from Ukrainian Catholic University and Lviv Holy Spirit Seminary in 2003. In 2005, he obtained a Licentiate Degree in Theology from the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family (ITI) in Gaming, Austria, founded by Pope St. John Paul II. In 2009, he received his Doctorate in Sacred Theology (STD) from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. He was ordained a Ukrainian Greek Catholic (UGCC) priest in 2010.
Dr. Mary Kloska, Th.D., is from Elkhart, Indiana. She was raised in a huge Polish family (12 brothers and sisters) along with a lot of foster babies and other needy people in and out of the house. She presently has 70+ nieces and nephews. She has lived a very unique life. Upon graduating from Notre Dame in 1999 she spent almost 20 years in the missions serving the poor (including orphanages) as well as praying as a consecrated hermit all over the world –Siberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Philippines, Mexico, the Holy Land and all over Europe as well. Although she spent a lot of time away in silence praying, ironically she loves children and is very fun and outgoing when it comes to serving young adults, as well as the little ones. She also spent her time in the missions giving retreats, doing simple catechesis, leading prayer groups, giving spiritual direction, helping in deliverance, changing diapers, feeding babies and cleaning floors. After spending intense time serving in a mission she would withdraw for periods of ‘retreat’ as a hermit (including three years as an official diocesan hermit with vows under a Bishop.) The last few years she has spent as a fulltime nanny to infant triplets, twins and several large families. She speaks many languages (poorly) and enjoys playing guitar, painting icons, baking, gardening, reading, writing and simply filling in where there is the greatest need in the Church. Her WCAT Radio program, “The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love,” may be found 
