Lament is often missing from our personal and liturgical prayer. Yet in this time of ecological destruction, can we reclaim lament as essential to the truthfulness of our prayer? Human praise would be greatly diminished without the witness of other-than-human creatures. Can we turn more fully toward them as our partners in praise, while remembering those whose voices have been extinguished?

Class is led by Dr. Mary E. McGann, RSCJ, and meets in the Parish Hall on the following Sundays: Oct. 19, 26