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When Women Pray: Eleven Catholic Women on the Power of Prayer

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About When Women Pray: Eleven Catholic Women On The Power

Here is a book that will inspire a new outpouring of prayer for healing and holiness. This timely work proclaims the joy of prayer and wealth of grace entrusted to praying women. Through poignant personal stories and Church teaching, eleven Catholic women magnify the Marian vocation of living as contemplatives in action. For personal or group retreats, each chapter ends with spiritual reflections: Ponder, Practice, Pray , and the Feminine Wisdom of women saints. The Eucharist, Scripture and Mary are beautifully highlighted in chapters from these Catholic women: Kathleen Beckman, co-founder of the Foundation of Prayer for Priests, illuminates the nature of prayer, especially as seen in the example of the Blessed Mother, and shares her journey from sitting wounded and numb before the Eucharist to being set aflame with Divine Love. Johnnette Benkovic, founder and president of EWTN's Women of Grace®, in a stunning explication of the Samaritan woman's encounter with Jesus at the well, speaks intimately to the feminine heart and reveals how Jesus alone can perfectly fulfill a woman's deepest desires to love and to be loved. Ronda Chervin, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, tells the extraordinary story of how she, despite being brought up by atheist parents became a fervent Catholic and has remained even in the face of unimaginably heavy crosses including the suicide of her son. Pia de Solenni, Ph.D., Associate Dean of the Augustine Institute, puts her theological expertise to work and draws on Scripture and Church teaching not to mention her experience of growing up as the only girl in a family of boys to unpack what feminine prayer really means. Mary Healy, S.T.D., professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, describes her reversion after spending nearly all night in Adoration and how praise serves as t