A Month of Mondays: Spiritual Lessons from the Catholic Classroom - Softcover

set of challenges, requirements, and rewards. In A Month

of Mondays, author and master teacher Karen Eifler

draws from her own extensive teaching experience and

that of her colleagues to help teachers, administrators,

and catechists reflect on the meaning and importance

of their work as "grace in action." Using humorous and

touching real-life stories to make her points, Eifler

digs deep into the connection between teaching and

spirituality. Meditations include:

Taking the God's Eye View

The Communion of Saints

Crazy Present-Tense Beatitudes

I Teach People, Not Geography

The Power of the Personal

The Tongue of a Teacher

subject to middle and high school students in the dioceses of Los Angeles

and Oakland, California, for fifteen years. Having earned her doctorate at

the University of Nebraska, she is now a teacher of teachers and spiritual

director at the Oregon's Catholic university, the University of Portland.

Patrick Hannon is a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He was raised near Oakland, California. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Portland in Oregon, received his master of divinity at the University of Notre Dame, and holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from Portland State University. Hannon was ordained a priest in 1989 and has, over twenty-five years of priesthood, been a high school English teacher, a high school principal, a parish priest, a rector of a university residence hall, and a campus minister. His essays have appeared in US Catholic, Portland Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, The Utne Reader, Best Catholic Writing and Gold Man Review. He is the author of four collections of essays: Running into the Arms of God, Geography of God s Mercy, The Long Yearning s End, and Hearts and Voices. He currently ministers and teaches writing at the University of Portland, and leads parish missions and retreats. He enjoys films, the occasional poker game and microbrew, and spending time with his ever-expanding Irish Catholic family.