This prayer journal was born from a true story.

After a retreat devoted to her 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 her 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 offers a distinctly feminine voice in contemporary Catholic mysticism?ancient and new at once. Deeply rooted in the Church's sacramental imagination, it invites the attentive reader into a via orationis?a way of prayer and a way to pray.