When Women Pray

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 international apostolate of 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 encounte