Written by Betsey Beckman, Nina O’Connor & J. Michael Sparough, SJ

Published by St. Antony Messenger Press 1997, paperback, 181 pages.

Your directors for this retreat, Praying With Our Bodies, are Our Lady, Dominic and Ignatius. Our Lady–Mary of Nazareth, widowed woman, survivor, sojourner, seeker of sanctuary, marginalized woman, woman pregnant with hope–teaches us how to bring Christ to a broken world and to let the Spirit pray through us in word, in silence, in stillness and in movement. Our other two mentors, Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers, and Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus, are well known for their steadfast devotion to Our Lady. They, too, have much to teach us about how to let the Holy Spirit pray in us through these “temples” of the Holy Spirit, our bodies.