“A Woman’s Prayer” is a selection from Dorothy Day’s autobiography From Union Square to Rome, which illustrates that ordinary people can achieve contemplative prayer and that material possessions don’t bring satisfaction.

Dorothy Day was an atheist who converted to the Catholicism. She co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement.

The poem “His Cleric’s Eye” is a meditation and prayer about a priest who was too cerebral and not involved in people’s lives.

Daniel Berrigan, S.J. is a writer and anti-war activist.

The Agony in the Garden – Giovanni Bellini

La Orana Maria (Ave Maria) – Paul Gauguin

The Visitation – Tintoretto

St. Jerome in the Wilderness – Lorenzo Sabatini

St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata – Giotto

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa – Bernini

The Pharisee and the Publican – John Everett Millais