Maryknoll Hosts Book Reception Featuring Ossining Author

Ossining author Teresa Rhodes McGee read from her latest book, Jim’s Last Summer: Lessons on Living from a Dying Priest, during a signing and reception on Tuesday, April 30 at the Maryknoll Society Center (Africa Room), 55 Ryder Road, Ossining, N.Y. The event was free and open to the public.

Jim’s Last Summer, published by Orbis Books, the publishing arm of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, is a moving story of friendship, faith and rebirth. McGee was struggling with arthritis, anger and a sense of sin. Her friend Jim Lenihan, a 72-year-old Maryknoll missioner, lay dying in a nursing home. It was Jim’s last summer. For McGee it was a new beginning. "The last time I sat by his bed," she wrote, "there seemed nothing left of Jim but his essential goodness."

McGee authored Ordinary Mysteries: Rediscovering the Rosary last year. For her first book, The Comforter: Stories of Loss and Rebirth, she received the Catholic Press Association Award for "Best First Time Author of a Book."

With her husband, McGee served as a Maryknoll lay missioner in Peru, working in adult leadership development (1984-86), and later worked as co-director of lay missioner training at the Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful (1986-94). She is currently assistant to the director of Maryknoll’s department of Society Member Services. McGee holds a master’s degree in religious studies from Loyola University, Chicago, Ill., and a post-masters diploma in pastoral counseling and spiritual direction from Fordham University in New York City.

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