Living Prayer

Alison M. Benders serves as vice president for the division of mission and ministry at Santa Clara University. Prior to this role, she served for seven years as the associate and interim dean of the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University. Her most recent book, Recollecting America's Original Sin: A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace (Liturgical Press, 2022), offers a reflective immersion into our nation's history of racial injustice through personal and theological lenses. She also authored Just Prayer: A Book of Hours forPeacemakers and Justice Seekers (Liturgical Press, 2015).  Lisa Fullam is professor emerita of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and associate veterinarian at the New Baltimore Animal Hospital in West Coxsackie, New York. She has co-edited with Charles E. Curran four volumes in the Readings in Moral Theology series (Paulist Press). She is also the author of The Virtue of Humility: A ThomisticApologetic.  Gina Hens-Piazza is the Joseph S. Alemany Professor of Biblical Studies at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She received her PhD from Union Theological Seminary in NYC and recently served as one of the editors for and a contributor to The New Jerome BiblicalCommentary for the Twentieth First Century (Bloomsbury Press, 2022). A past president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, Hens-Piazza is a frequent lecturer nationally and internationally. She is the author of Lamentations in the Wisdom Commentary series (Liturgical Press, 2017).

"Living Prayer compiled with years of reflection, prayer and search for justice by the authors is an active commitment to live out Laudato Si’ and join the restorative mission of God’s ecology.”Pedro Walpole, SJ, Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center, Bukidnon, Philippines

• CONTENTSIntroduction   ixWeek One   Let There Be Life!Celebrating the Gift of Creation   1Week Two   Ruptured RelationshipsAcknowledging Our Alienation   51Week Three   Healing CreationAccepting Christ’s Salvation   109Week Four   Establishing the Renewed CreationCultivating Life   159Conclusion   Cultivating Life for Renewing Creation   211Appendix   Green Rituals and Practices 215