The Frassati Field Guide: An 8-Day Ascent to Heroic Virtue

by Bobby Angel

Overview

With Frassati’s famous motto Verso l’alto (To the Heights), this book challenges you to rise to the occasion and live your faith with courageous action. Whether you’re seeking holiness, joy, or a deeper purpose in your life, Pier Giorgio is inviting you to follow him.

Are you ready to take your faith to new heights? The Frassati Field Guide invites you to walk in the footsteps of one of the Church’s newest saints, Pier Giorgio Frassati—a fearless adventurer, passionate mountain climber, joyful servant to the poor, and bold witness to Christ. Throughout his life, Pier Giorgio proved that living the faith is not just about words but about daring action and joyful sacrifice.

In this inspiring guide, Bobby Angel—mountain guide and retreat leader—leads you through an eight-day journey that challenges you to live with the same boldness, purpose, and vitality that Pier Giorgio did. Each day is centered on a powerful virtue that shaped his remarkable life, including:

• Words of Wisdom from Frassati himself, inspiring you to live fully;
• Practical Insights showing how he turned his beliefs into action in every moment;
• Journaling Prompts that help you apply Frassati’s witness to your own life;
• Challenges that push you to step outside your comfort zone and take bold action;
• Daily Prayers to unite your efforts with God’s will for your life.

The Frassati Field Guide is more than just a book—it’s a call to adventure! Discover Pier Giorgio’s passions, from hiking the mountains to praying before the Blessed Sacrament to serving his friends and the poor. He lived each day infused with faith, joy, and love, and this guide will help you do the same, one step at a time.

Will you answer the call? Step out, live boldly, and let your faith soar!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646804061
Publisher:	Ave Maria Press
Publication date:	07/25/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Bobby Angel is a Catholic author, speaker, and certified mentor for the CatholicPsych Institute with more than twenty years of experience in ministry. He is the author of Gaming and the Heroic Life and coauthor of Pray, Decide, and Don’t Worry: Five Steps to Discerning God’s Will with his wife, Jackie, and Fr. Mike Schmitz and of Forever: A Catholic Devotional for Your Marriage with Jackie. Angel also contributed to the books Catholicism after Coronavirus, Wisdom and Wonder, and The New Apologetics.

He earned bachelor’s degrees from the University of Florida and St. John Vianney College Seminary and master’s degrees from the St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary and the Augustine Institute. He trained at the Theology of the Body Institute. He also has worked as a certified firefighter and emergency medical technician.

Angel has spoken at the National Catholic Youth Conference, the Good News Conference, Life Teen retreats, and diocesan youth conferences. He was a regular on Jonathon “Bearded” Blevins’s Around the Halo on Twitch, the Ascension Presents YouTube channel, and the Word on Fire God and Gaming video series with Fr. Blake Britton. He contributes to the National Catholic Register and serves as a guide for the JP2 Trails retreats.

He lives with his family in the Dallas, Texas, area.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This resource by Bobby Angel offers Frassati as your retreat leader, with his life and virtues as your inspiration. Read and be encouraged to ascend into the adventure where Christ is calling you!” —Jason Evert, author, speaker, and founder of JP2 Trails

“This book moved me! Thank God for the gift of the saints, especially St. Pier Giorgio Frassati! This book wonderfully explores our universal call to holiness and highlights the examples of men and women who were heroic in their virtue yet completely ordinary in their daily lives. Frassati is a perfect example of this everyday faithfulness, and I now consider him a dear friend and role model in Christ. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book!” —Maggie Craig, speaker and author of Friendship Reset

“The Frassati Field Guide captures the essence of Pier Giorgio in an accessible and engaging read. Toss it in the backpack and head for the heights! The Church’s newest saint is calling us to encounter Christ on the mountaintop.” —Fr. John Nepil, mountaineer and assistant professor at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver

“It is a rare thing to have a book that, literally, invites you to ‘come outside’ to read it. It’s an invitation to an adventure. Most books suggest that we sit down, indoors, to digest them—we think of a library, a lamp, or an air conditioner. This refreshing invitation, drawn from the life and example of Pier Giorgio Frassati, is a field guide for anyone who chooses to embark on an adventure toward virtue. Think of a backpack, a log to sit on, water from a stream, sunshine and shade and moonlight. It is call to leave comfort behind and follow a beloved saint on his journey toward heaven.” —Fr. David Michael Moses, social media evangelist and guide for Hallow’s Saints in 7 Days with Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati series

“At a superficial glance, Pier Giorgio Frassati’s lifestyle, that of a modern young man who was full of life, does not present anything out of the ordinary. This, however, is the originality of his virtue, which invites us to reflect upon it and impels us to imitate it. In him faith and daily events are harmoniously fused, so that adherence to the Gospel is translated into loving care for the poor and the needy in a continual crescendo until the very last days of the sickness which led to his death. His love for beauty and art, his passion for sports and mountains, his attention to society’s problems did not inhibit his constant relationship with the Absolute. Entirely immersed in the mystery of God and totally dedicated to the constant service of his neighbor: thus we can sum up his earthly life!” —From the homily of Pope John Paul II, at the beatification of Pier Giorgio Frassati, May 20, 1990