Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M., was a retreat master and spiritual director for religious communities around the country, as well as a highly regarded speaker at conferences and retreats for lay people in North America.
A Marist Priest, Father Dubay earned a Ph.D. in Education from Catholic University of America in 1957 with the dissertation titled “Philosophy of the State as Educator” and spent the twenty-seven years giving retreats and writing books on various aspects of the spiritual life.

He hosted five different 13-part television series on the topics of spirituality and prayer, and is the best-selling author of such acclaimed spiritual works as Fire Within, Prayer Primer, and Happy Are You Poor.

Happy are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom by Fr. Thomas Dubay S.M.

Fr. Benedict Groeschel comments on his book:
“Father Dubay, an outstanding spiritual writer, has taken on the thorny problem of poverty and how it really relates to Christians. With his usual spiritual acumen Father Dubay looks at this question and gives every person something serious to think about regarding personal poverty, a value that speaks to us on every page of the Gospel.”
Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, Author, Arise from Darkness