Acknowledgments and Permissions Introduction: Mysteries of the Faithful, Dreams of the Future Part One: The Joyful Mysteries the first joyful mystery (poetry) Susanne Dutton Praying Twice (poetry) Liz Dolan My Soul Sisters--or, How the Nuns of my Childhood Inspired a Feisty Feminist (personal essay) Ren é e Bondy Jerusalem Road (poetry) Mary Rice Where I First Met God (personal essay) Lacey Louwagie Age of Reason (poetry) Suzanne Camino Uniforms Optional (personal essay) Leah Cano Sunday Morning in a Foreign Country (poetry) Lauren K. Alleyne Wool Skirts (personal essay) Martha Marinara Lord I am not your woman (poetry) Susanne Dutton It Takes a Village to Rear a Word Weaver: Memoirs of a Black Catholic Girlhood (personal essay) Mary-Antoinette Smith Fact of the world I (poetry) Lauren K. Alleyne girltruth (personal essay) Stacey Ginsburg the Easter fear (poetry) Susanne Dutton Part Two: The Sorrowful Mysteries Holy Thursday: The Passion (poetry) Lauren K. Alleyne That Easter (fiction) Leonore Wilson Our Lady of the Library (poetry) Sarah Colona For the Vatican Dress Code (poetry) Annrose Fitzgerald Nothing Soup (fiction) K. Biadaszkiewicz Nailing My Backbone to the Cross (poetry) Donna J. Gelagotis Lee True Confessions (poetry) Patti See Resolution (poetry) Lauren K. Alleyne Excuse me for this, Sister Mary (poetry) Ava C. Cipri A Meditation on Sexuality for Catholic Clergy (personal essay) Dolores DeLuise Moth Song (poetry) Sarah Colona Last of the Tomboy Pings (fiction) Patti See Penance (poetry) Donna J.

Gelagotis Lee Thou Shalt Not Have Strange Gods Before Me (personal essay) Pamela Galbreath Sister No One (poetry) Liz Dolan Superstitions of a Catholic Childhood (poetry) Martha K. Grant Fear and Trembling (poetry) Lauren K. Alleyne Rewinding the Wedding Tape (poetry) Patti See Invisible Nature (personal essay) Leonore Wilson Lying to God (poetry) Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Our Father Who? (personal essay) Carol Cooley Mass Revolt (poetry) Caterine McGuire Hunger (drama) Kari Ann Owen Angels (drama) Kari Ann Owen Confessions of a (Catholic) Presbyterian Woman (personal essay) Madeleine Mysko Blue Lights (poetry) Mary Rice Part Three: The Glorious Mysteries Water''s Wine (poetry) Allison Whittenberg Exile (personal essay) Colleen Shaddox Anathema (poetry) Natasha Saj é Intersections (poetry) Lauren K. Alleyne Telling My Mother I Can''t Say the Rosary (poetry) Patti See Secrets of the Confessional (drama) Pat Montley Ninth Month (poetry) Leonore Wilson Resurrecton (poetry) Mary Rice The Sentence (poetry) Leonore Wilson Interior Castle (poetry) Sheila Hassell Hughes Sacrament (poetry) Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Sister Ming in the Year of the Monkey (fiction) Susan Leonardi Anthony''s Asceticism (poetry) Ava C. Cipri The Taste of Apples (poetry) Lauren K. Alleyne Untitled (poetry) Paula Timpson Notes on Contributors.