Being a Catholic schoolteacher brings with it a unique set of challenges, requirements, and rewards. In A Monthof Mondays, author and master teacher Karen Eiflerdraws from her own extensive teaching experience andthat of her colleagues to help teachers, administrators,and catechists reflect on the meaning and importanceof their work as "grace in action." Using humorous andtouching real-life stories to make her points, Eiflerdigs deep into the connection between teaching andspirituality. MeditationsTaking the God's Eye ViewThe Communion of SaintsCrazy Present-Tense BeatitudesI Teach People, Not GeographyThe Power of the PersonalThe Tongue of a Teacher

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Karen Eifl er served as a youth minister and taught just about every

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.

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