Praying the Angels: Michael - Paperback
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After a retreat devoted to a call to consecration, an unexpected encounter with a priest questioning his vows prompts Ilona Grace to withdraw into forty days of silence.
Rarely confessional, never apologetic, written in solitude and love, Praying the Angels is a journal of vision, poetry and prayer. Scripture, nature, psychology, liturgy and daily life converse with God. Masculine and feminine, horizontal and vertical, body and spirit, authority and freedom meet-not as opposites to be resolved, but as mysteries to be contemplated and lived.
With poetic intensity and theological honesty, Praying the Angels is a distinct feminine voice in contemporary Catholic mysticism-ancient and new at once. Deeply rooted in the Church's sacramental imagination, it invites the reader into a via orationis-a way of prayer and a way to pray.
Ilona Grace is the pen name of an independent professional woman whose writing brings a deep reverence for the Church's sacramental tradition together with a daring willingness to question and explore. Her poetry and prayer life unfold at the intersections of love, faith, psychology, and the mystical magination, avoiding easy answers to embrace contradictions in the Divine Mystery. Praying the Angels is an intimate record of being with and listening to God.
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