Melanie Rigney uses stories of the saints, our sisters in faith, to helpreaders grow in their spiritual lives. Some of these saints are familiar--Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena, Bernadette of Lourdes, ElizabethAnn Seton--while others are not so well known--Maria Karlowska,Claudine Thevenet, Josephine Bakhita, Margaret Flesch. They comefrom different places and different times, creating an intimate portraitof the universal Church. Yet the lives of each of these women illustratethe qualities of the Beatitudes--what the Catechism of the CatholicChurch calls "the heart of Jesus's preaching" (1716)--in a down-to-earth and human way. Through the lives of these exemplary womensaints and the qualities they espouse--meekness, mourning, povertyof spirit, justice, mercy, purity of heart, peace, righteousness--womenwill find ways to live more fully the Gospel values of Christian life.
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