In this festive and warm-hearted collection of poems, editors Michael Leach, Doris Goodnough, and Helen Phillips have selected verse written by Maryknollers: sisters, brothers, fathers, lay missioners, affiliates, employees, supporters, authors, and friends of Maryknoll's Orbis Books. In the preface, they state:

"Poetry is theology that stirs the soul. Poetry evokes what is wonderful, it imagines the unimaginable, describes the indefinable, and points to what cannot be known. It is theology leaping out of the file cabinet and into the heart. It is the Word made words that sing."

We were pleased to find poems by some of our favorite authors including Ernesto Cardenal, Joyce Rupp, Joan Chittister, John Shea, David Steindl-Rast, Daniel Berrigan, Edwina Gately, Dorotheee Soelle and many more. Here is one example:

If Ever by Julia D. E. Prinz, VDMF

"Isn't it all
worthwhile

— to throw one's life
into the whirlpool
world,

not knowing when
or where or if ever
it will come out again —

no imbursement,
just gift?"